Mandatory jail term for Nazi salute under new hate crime rules in Australia
Mandatory jail term for Nazi salute under new hate crime rules in Australia
Australia on Thursday passed anti-hate crime laws under which a Nazi salute in public, among other similar offences, will be punishable by a mandatory jail sentence.
Summary
Australia has enacted strict anti-hate crime laws, mandating jail sentences for public Nazi salutes and other hate-related offenses.
Punishments range from 12 months for lesser crimes to six years for terrorism-related hate offenses.
The legislation follows a rise in antisemitic attacks, including synagogue vandalism and a foiled bombing plot targeting Jewish Australians.
The law builds on state-level bans, with prior convictions for individuals performing Nazi salutes in public spaces, including at sporting events and courthouses.
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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?)
I sat on a jury recently and a large part of the case had to do with prison culture. It's so incredibly sad how accurate this is.
My dad was a prison guard, I've thought about some of these dynamics a lot over the years.
Honestly what else is there to do? These people aren’t exactly going to change their minds, and letting them display hate in the name of free speech is only going to help them mobilize and elect more trumps in the world.
Well I say it elsewhere, but we need to really start to rethink carcerial justice as a solution to social problems. It doesn't help, it just compounds the contradictions that lead to problems like crime, fascism in the first place.
I understand we can't just snap our fingers to make it go away. But The first step is discussion.
I don't know we do it, but I think addressing the root causes as to why people are drawn to hate groups or hateful beliefs would be better. Eliminating the symptom doesn't solve the problem.
It's a hell of a lot harder to join a hate group if you can't identify any members to find out who to sign up with.
They can still easily identify each other online, social groups, clubs, etc. I would think that's how most of these people get together anyway, and not from some rando on the street throwing up a nazi salute. Making the gesture illegal also doesn't solve why people are this way. It doesn't solve the problem. It just covers it up (imo).
I have no idea why you are so convinced that people are just as likely to join hate groups when they don't know that they exist, but okay...
Because, as I said, they find each other online, in social settings, etc. Shit, the Aryan Brotherhood started as a prison gang. Banning the salute isn't going to keep people from knowing about hate groups because that's not how they find out about them to begin with.
I'm not arguing against banning hate speech, I'm just saying that that alone isn't going to fix the problem. We also need to figure out why people are drawn to this stuff. Is it poverty? Lack of education? Lead in the drinking water?
Yes, no one is denying there are other ways to do it.
What you seem to be suggesting is that if you eliminate literally the most easy way to find who to sign up with when it comes to joining a hate group, it won't make a difference.
What exactly do you think the point of public advertising is? Aesthetics?
No, I don't think banning the nazi salute will make much of a difference as far as hate group recruitment. I also don't think it would be easy, at least in the US. Mileage may vary in other countries, of course.
I'mIn American prisons are white, black, Latin superiority gangs.