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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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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

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

[–] GrumpyDuckling 17 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (4 children)

targeting Jewish Australians.

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

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[–] Kalcifer 4 points 4 days ago (34 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (3 children)

My thoughts exactly. I have absolutely no sympathy for Nazis, or anyone else who thinks mass murder and genocide were good policy. But one of the things that makes a free society different from Nazi Germany, is free expression. If we limit free expression to only things the people in charge want expressed, no matter how noble the intent that starts us down a very dark path very quickly.

The way we fight Nazis and racism is not by beating them up or jailing them. It's by teaching each other and our children why they are wrong, by learning and understanding what it is like to have racism directed against you. And thus, we defeat racism not with force but with empathy.

As far as I'm concerned, this is the sort of policy that would make Hitler proud. It's the sort of policy that would be enacted in Nazi Germany, or Soviet Russia.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Maybe Musk should take one of his Boeing Cyberplanes to Australia

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago
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