Mandatory jail term for Nazi salute under new hate crime rules in Australia

Would, say, an actor playing a Nazi officer in a movie be protected from this?

I used to be a person that believed very strongly in freedom of speech and that anything which was categorized as a philosophy or belief shouldn't be censored.

However, after seeing how hard fascism has taken hold in America, I'm beginning to change my mind.

Good. This needs to be worldwide. They need to reeducate the people as to

A: Why the Nazis were bad beyond 'they wanna kill people!' Their utter disgust of science and technology, and how their social policies were actively fucking over their own people in addition to others. B: Just how incompetent the Nazis were, and were far from a hyperefficient machine. C: Just how bad they were at science and despite their demonization, West Germany was never fully denazified and how many former Nazi officers returned to work as politicians and military officers.

There is a plethora of books written before and during WW2 that showcased just how evil the Nazis were and how fucked their society was. They also need a review of Mein Kampf and how Hitler dictated it. Exactly like how Trump dictated the Art of the Deal to a writer and did not write it himself.

My suggestion of one book written during the Nazi Era is Education for Death by Gregor Ziemer. The society it showed was really, REALLY fucked. How anyone could think this was a paradise is beyond me. Most modern fascists, with their donut bodies and chinless faces would be the types considered feeble and probably sterilized as a 'charity'.

Fucking finally. Good shit Australia. Doing better than most. Watch Elmo throw a hissie fit. Pathetic

I don't think this behavior should be socially tolerated; however, I don't think it's a good idea to police it through the use of governmental force.

Send nazi pig Elon there on a one way flight.

Kudos to Australia. Leon Hitler should travel there, have his arrested and deposited in the middle of the Great Australian Desert.

I think it should be legal to do exactly one free punch on anyone who does a nazi salute.

Sending people to jail is a great way to make sure they don't spend time embroiled in Nazi ideology on every level. Probably the best way to make sure someone never comes in contact with a single particle of Nazism, is to send them to prison.

(Can you tell I'm american?)

Trump puts tariffs on Australia....

Question for everyone supporting this: do you think saying women can't think for themselves should be classified as hate speech?

Asking for a friend.

targeting Jewish Australians.

There it is. I'll bet criticizing Isreal is considered anti-semetic too. Meanwhile Aboriginals still don't have rights.

Maybe Musk should take one of his Boeing Cyberplanes to Australia

The thing is this just makes it "cooler" among the Nazis because now it's illegal. It plays right into their persecution complex. It also opens up a legal morass of trying to define a hand gesture in court. To me this seems like it's fighting the symptoms and not the underlying problems.

As an American, this feels wrong on the surface with our broad first amendment and all.

But when I think about it with my morality-enabled brain? Fuckin’ strewth mates! Get those cunts!

Good. I'm glad Australia drew a hard line.

Redefining the freedom of speech can be a slippery slope. It will depend upon who is in power and their personal views. Hate speech is something that can be targetted. There would need to be statutory limitations to prevent misuse of the legislative principles. If the Germans can do it right, so can we, wherever we live.

Any good tech companies in Australia? How hard are the citizenship requirements if you avoid all the Mel Gibsons?

Now make it retroactive and with universal jurisdiction.

Can Canada do this too?

What a nicely timed distraction from issues like housing, cost of living and health.

Albo was definitely always going to pass these laws even if Zionist gangs hadn't staged the attacks across Australia to create the headlines that triggered these laws.

Definitely wouldn't happen here in Oz!

I can't see this actually happening since people who continue to commit crime, are re-released on bail.

An Australian anti-fascist perspective: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZ2KvtlLJyQ

Yeah its bad, but jail time for it?

Yeah. How about from 1948?

So this is Australia, but imagine we did something like this in the USA. A Nazi salute is a form of hate crime against Jewish people, would it also be illegal to use Racial Slurs?