Lawmakers have banned public displays of the Nazi salute, swastika and other hate symbols as Australia tries to get to grips with a spike in antisemitism.

Australian lawmakers have banned the performance of the Nazi salute in public and outlawed the display or sale of Nazi hate symbols such as the swastika in landmark legislation that went into effect in the country Monday. The new laws also make the act of glorifying OR praising acts of terrorism a criminal offense.

The crime of publicly performing the Nazi salute or displaying the Nazi swastika is punishable by up to 12 months in prison, according to the Reuters news agency.

Mark Dreyfus, Australia’s Attorney-General, said in a press release Monday that the laws — the first of their kind in the country — sent “a clear message: there is no place in Australia for acts and symbols that glorify the horrors of the Holocaust and terrorist acts.”

  • Lemminary@lemmy.worldEnglish
    24·
    10 months ago

    It’s weird that I have to say this but this should also be done in Latin America.

    Like, no, you’re not Aryan, you’re just pale. And you-- you’re not even pale, wtf? You’d be the first one in the gas chambers, Pedro Contreras!

      • StorminNorman@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        10 months ago

        Honestly, it’s worse, if you’re thinking of the Chappelle’s Show skit. At least the character Clayton Bigsby is also blind so he literally doesn’t know he’s actually white.

        • Grass@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          2·
          10 months ago

          It seems like they all do. Or for some at least they always were but pretended to avoid being cancelled before having enough money to not care.

        • Facebones@reddthat.comEnglish
          2·
          10 months ago

          God help you if you’re just generally not interested in watching the fuckin thing, every “free speech absolutist” within a three mile radius comes down on you for not supporting Dave over “just jokes!”

          Bro calm your stiffy I just don’t care about the guy cause it’s, yknow, 2024.

    • oatscoop@midwest.socialEnglish
      3·
      10 months ago

      Because they believe in many of the same “traditional values” as nazis – they’re natural allies.

      Of course those dipshits don’t realize the nazis only want their help now because they’re desperate for numbers. As soon as the nazis no longer need their help they’re getting their own Night of the Long Knives.

      • Facebones@reddthat.comEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        IDK if there’s a name for the logical fallacy but I always think it’s bonkers how people who throw in with hate as an ideology never think it’ll fall on them at some point, especially as a non-(white/cis/male/whatevs.)

        There’s alot of anti trans gay people throwing in with the right because they are too - never once think after the trans are banned that they’d come next, not like that’s half the right’s thing or anything.