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

[cebbinghaus@lemmy.world]

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

[pelespirit@sh.itjust.works]

I hope he tests the waters there and Australia follows through.

[ashar@infosec.pub]

Now make it retroactive and with universal jurisdiction.

[grimmnm@lemmy.world]

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

[th3d3k0y@lemmy.world]

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?

[sinningstromgald@lemmy.world]

Trump puts tariffs on Australia....

[thepowerofgeek@lemmy.world]

And Musk to block Starlink from Australia.

[solomon42069@lemmy.world]

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!

[timewarp@lemmy.world]

Soon protesting or advocating against the genocide in Gaza & speaking out against ethnic cleansing will be considered a hate crime too. Remember, this is what you wanted when you said no to free speech, regardless if it was something that offended you.

[expatriado@lemmy.world]

gosh, how we let the weird kid gather so much power..

[anon6789@lemmy.world]

[timewarp@lemmy.world]

Even Jewish people defend Nazis right to free speech:

https://www.aclu.org/news/free-speech/the-skokie-case-how-i-came-to-represent-the-free-speech-rights-of-nazis

But go ahead & tell everyone how saluting is a hate crime. Now imagine your right to protest, or say something negative about the President being taken away because you didn't like free speech.

[ziggurat@fedia.io]

Many countries do have hate-speech laws, and law against Nazi propaganda.

As usual intent and context matters, but I don't see why you should defend the right to use racial slur in a racist manier

[whatamlemmy@lemmy.world]

Don't kid yourself. Australia is also an oligarchy where corporations get most of what they want passed within weeks, with little to no debate, while popular and inconsequential policies are given months or years of debate, so the murdoch/oligarch propaganda machine can distract the public and tell them how to think.

There is no chance in hell either major party would imprison a fascist dictators right hang man. They're both corporate whores at heart, with little/no virtue.

[kusimulkku@lemm.ee]

One year's mandatory jail term for any "hate-related offenses" seems a bit far imo. Should be just a fine at least for first offense, unless it's some physical attack and stuff like that.

[kusimulkku@lemm.ee]

Retroactive laws are a horrible idea

[timewarp@lemmy.world]

Multiple front page Reddit articles about this as well. Look at the downvote ratio compared to discussions. Israel just pulling the strings as usual & everyone is falling for it, as they plan to take over Gaza & call you all Nazis for opposing it.

[flashmobofone@lemmy.world]

Agreed.

I'm so sick of this absolutist free speech bullshit that wants to make room for terrorist ideologies to hide.

[rottingleaf@lemmy.world]

That's a bit too much. That's a country with Gallipoli battles being matter of national myth, right? And they use it the way of praising WWI Ottomans as a worthy enemy. That'd be Young Turks, that'd be the genocide of Armenians, Assyrians and Greeks in those very years.

Jail for a salute seems a bit unbalanced.

[th3d3k0y@lemmy.world]

To be clear, the article calls the salute a hate crime. I'm restating it in my comment since it's relevant to my question.