• MeanElevator
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    8 days ago

    The argument against the ban is usually ‘government shouldn’t ban a single gesture’ or ‘what if they start banning other body movements’.

    If Germany can ban this gesture and punish people doing it, so can we quite easily.

    • StudSpud The Starchy
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      8 days ago

      Agreed!

      As in I agree that Germany handles that stuff really well, they shut that crap down so fast.

      I get the argument about body movements, but we’re not talking about giving someone the middle finger; we’re talking about Nazi salutes and the meaning behind the ideology, and how it is evil. It would behoove those Redditors to comprehend the difference.

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      I sometimes think we don’t do enough to stop things from happening.

      They can ban it all they want but people keep doing it and I assume because there’s not much of a penalty and lack of consequences associated with it.

      I would like to see more severe punishments for doing it or displaying things like that.

      It was an absolutely horrible era in history and see them backing those atrocities is awful.

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        I think the ban is good as it can lead to criminal charges and punishments. Might prevent some from doing it, which is already a win.

        Generally I don’t condone violence, but punching a Nazi is never a bad thing

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          I haven’t been kept up to date with things but I there are some white supremacy groups and nazi groups in Victoria that I was made aware of and I wouldn’t mind seeing them behind bars myself to be honest.

          Group like that shouldn’t really exist.

          I’m all for preserving history and records but not as a living embodiment with groups like that.

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      It’s the standard playback of ‘you’re being unreasonable’ and they can go choke on their own arses. They’re fucking nazi cosplay wankers throwing seig heils and they can get fucked.

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        Yeah honestly. Banning Nazi signals is not a slippery slope and the ‘free speech’ brigade is soooo annoying.

        USA has free speech and look how well that works. Empowering hate groups ain’t the way forward.