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Mandatory jail term for Nazi salute under new hate crime rules in Australia
(www.independent.co.uk)
this post was submitted on 06 Feb 2025
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Because it isn't physically violent. Black Democrats are out there making racial comments about white people as well. I don't think they should be locked up, do you?
Apples and oranges. A nazi salute is not a racial comment. It's a signal of allegiance to extermination (which, by the way, extermination is physically violent).
The idealistic fantasy that we should permit the intentional organisation of Nazism is not an effective way to preserve liberty of speech. Australia has no intention of becoming the failing pseudo-liberalist state that the USA is. So if the law doesn't stop them, our communities will continue to step up and silence them ourselves.
Burning a cross on someone's lawn isn't physically violent either. So I guess you're okay with it?
That's generally how it works in countries with hate speech laws, yes. Civilisation doesn't work when civility is required only of a subset of the population, no matter its shape.
Also for the record in Germany the salute doesn't qualify as incitement to hatred, at least not without further context, it's plain and simply use of a symbol of an outlawed organisation, which is punishable if it is done in the furtherance of the goals and aims of that organisation. Same law applies to e.g. 1%er badges. I think there's "gang symbols" type legislation in the US, so why the sudden pearl-clutching when the violent goons signalling each other happen to be Nazis? It's a criminal organisation having had their official structures banned still trying to organise, that's illegal.
I'm not pearl clutching. I'm a free speech absolutist. I support cosplay Nazis right to free speech just like I support people's rights to call cops pigs, etc. Also gang signs aren't illegal.
You'd be surprised how many times free speech has benefited Democrats. Remember how many up votes praising Luigi Mangione got, now those same people want to eliminate free speech. Good luck to them. I'll just sit here & watch as I get downvoted into oblivion. Not like they bothered actually studying history.
Not what anyone is talking about.
You mean the party that co-created the conditions that made that happen. Both of the parties are complicit in turning the country into an oligarchy. The US is completely cooked politically speaking, you're not a standard or role model for anyone. Your completely fucked-up political culture and completely absent standards of civility are part of that. Not a thing you should be proud of.
Where are you from? America has become the most successful superpower due to free speech. Go ahead tell us how much we suck. Maybe you should go look in the mirror first though.
Have you watched the news lately.