"In October, a judge sentenced a man from northeast Germany to five months’ probation and a 300 euro fine for a Facebook post saying refugees should burn alive or drown in the Mediterranean Sea"<p>Sounds reasonable. Inciting violence is illegal in the US as well, by the way.<p>It may not be obvious to everyone, but we're seeing a wave of anti-immigrant violence. Just yesterday a court in my region sentenced two men and a woman to up to eight years in prison for throwing a Molotow cocktail in a house where a refugee family was living. Only by chance (the small child slept in his mother's bed that night) was noone killed.<p>Don't you think this is just academic, and words don't hurt.