Mandatory jail term for Nazi salute under new hate crime rules in Australia
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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.
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Was there another Holocaust or something I don't know about during the time in this article?
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I mean free speech is a deeply contradictory concept, which i largely support, however, people having the "right" to harm others is not a human right but a right of domination, which I am actively and deeply set against.
It does create an opportunity for a little irony, which I can't pass up.
But part of my criticism is not just "Nazis exist in prison" but "carcerial justice is just as fascistic as anything we associate with fascism" which never gets even though about let alone discussed anywhere but the fringes of the prison abolition movement.
And things like prisons and police, the existence of many kinds of crime, particularly property crimes, need to be considered historically contingent, so that no matter how much we want to just delete all prisons they do serve as a solution to contradictions that arise within our society. So that the struggle to abolish carcerial punishment has to be simultaneously replaced with something better. Which is just and worth fighting for.
Getting rid of heil Hitler hand gestures in public might prevent the public proliferation of "signs" of fascism, the actual causes of it are institutional and function in cooperation with systems of institutional racism, Etc., and until those tendencies are abolished, and that is the worst expressions of class domination within capitalism, fascism will always be a problem to contend with.
In other words, we have fascism because we have prisons. Or rather, the underlying logic of fasciam is just the underlying logic that justifies carcerial justice, taken to its natural conclusions.
So its not just irony, its like a double irony
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My dad was a prison guard, I've thought about some of these dynamics a lot over the years.
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Not quite yet - the US is currently in the Night of Long Knives phase of allowing Nazis to come into power, so perhaps soon.
Why, did the first one not count?
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That's basically a tax on not being rich enough to be a nazi, which... well.
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It's nothing to do with paradox of tolerance to think a year's mandatory jail time for a year is pretty ridiculous for any "hate-related offenses".
I'm against in general of just throwing people into the slammer and hoping that fixes the issues. Punishment should fit the crime and some dipshit doing some Nazi salute isn't worth a year in goddamn prison.
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Oh you're laughing at it because he's so familiar to you because it's the most "hardcore" philosophy you've ever engaged with? Yeah, I assumed as much.
That's why I assumed you wouldn't read "Leviathan" and from all your writing it's clear you never have previously. Or even listened to a summary. Perhaps had those playing in the background, pretending like you've been listening to them.
The way you can't distinguish a thought from the philosopher who brought it up shows that you larp as being read instead of being read.
I don’t need Alain de Buttman’s watered down baby philosophy for online babies, please and thank you.
Oh you most certainly do. It would definitely improve your skill on larping as a philosopher if you had the ability to pay any attention.
I’ve read thousands of pages of philosophy.
Thanks. That got rid of some phlegm. THOUSANDS of pages you say. Wow. That must be like... at least a half a dozen books.
We'll continue the conversation when you understand how asinine your earlier garbage is. If you weren't an egoistical teenager who's all about what other's perceive for them to have read and done and actually put import on understanding the things people say to you, you would at least skim what the Leviathan is about so you'd know what point I was making. But the fact you're incapable of even understanding that means that I'm simply not interested in anything you have to say as you have zero intellectual curiosity. That sort of youthful egoism is fine, as long as it's driven by actual intellect.
Yours isn't.
Your previous comment. It looks a bit like how ridiculous it looks to you to now look illustrations of what people in the late 19th century thought the 21st century would look like. Firemen with flappy wings and whatnot. It's utterly ridiculous because you know that would be the absolute worst way to go about flying. Either the wings would have to be absolutely massive or go really fast and still they'd be much worse than most other options we have for personal flying we can already achieve, like the jetpacks. The reason I'm saying this is that is what it looks like to me when reading your "arguments". I can see how someone ignorant of political theory might formulate a naive theory like that, but the theory itself is utterly ridiculous and wouldn't work because of facts you do not seem to know.
If you have even the tiniest bit of intellectual curiosity, you'll look up what the Leviathan is about (while remembering to distinguish between an author and an idea) and then you'll see why your earlier assertions are laughably naive.
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It's actually really easy to not be a nazi.
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