• girlfreddy@lemmy.ca
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    Police said they were reporting all four to prosecutors on suspicion of violating the Austrian law that bans the symbols of Nazism.

    Every nation in the world should enact the same law.

    edit - Seems I’ve upset the nazi sympathizers today. My good deed is done.

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      I like where your heads at, and I’m usually all for anything that makes it harder to be a Nazi. Like, seriously, how is that still a thing in 2024?

      But, it’s one of those slippery slopes where you have to wonder how far you take the idea, and at one point does banning just Nazi symbolism slowly turn into banning symbolism of things the government just doesn’t care for today. It’s easy to say that “We stop at Nazis” but then it just takes one asshole saying “Oh, does that mean this other group isn’t so bad because we’re not applying it to them?”.

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        I get that. There’s very few things that are black and white in the world. But the fact remains that allowing nazis ANY leeway at all makes them think they can do whatever they want. And that ain’t the way this game is played.

        Believe whatever you want … but the minute those beliefs turn into actions that harm people, you’re done. Zero tolerance.

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        We could just make speech that directly glorifies or encourages violence illegal. Basically just an extension of laws against violent threats or speech that does direct harm.

        It would be much harder to abuse such a restriction on speech, and it would cover all violent or genocidal movements without singling out a specific ideology.

        One of the best ways around the first amendment is to throw away any notion of offensiveness or obscenity, and focus on victims. You can’t fraudulently shout “Fire!” in a crowded theatre because the people who get injured in the panic will be victims. You can’t possess child porn because minors have no right to grant sexual consent and the existence of such media further victimizes them. You can’t distribute private porn made with your partner without their permission for similar reasons: because your partner didn’t consent to it, and would be victimized by its distribution. You cannot threaten to assault or kill someone, or call for others to assault or kill someone, because it amounts to conspiracy to commit a violent crime.

        None of these restrictions on speech focus on the speech being offensive, they focus on the speech having direct harmful consequences to others. It draws the line of where your rights end at where others’ rights begin.

        I don’t see why we can’t extend this to cover inherently violent ideologies like Nazism, where glorification of it, by definition, is a call for violence against specific members of our society. If you celebrate the Holocaust and demand similar action today, the victims are the people who you are asking the state to murder. There’s no reason to tolerate that as free speech, because the people being targeted have the right not to be murdered. If it’s illegal to call for the murder of 1 person, why not make it illegal to call for the murder of millions of people?

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      Lemmy has at least 6 fascist loving twats hanging around?

      Honestly wonder what the fuck they’re doing here. Fuck off nazi scum

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        6 months ago

        I would rather they have to do it in the shadows, and be able to be dealt with if they show their faces in the light of day.

    • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.net
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      I’d want the wording on such a law to be extremely specific so as not to be weaponized by saying anything the current people in power don’t like is a Nazi symbol.

      But it couldn’t be and still have any worth, since the symbols would constantly change to remain hidden. It would simply further impede upon freedom of speech and expression the more you try to stop it.

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        6 months ago

        You’ve perfectly described the problem with what the OP is proposing. Disagreeing with that position doesn’t make you a Nazi.

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        extremely specific so as not to be weaponized by saying anything the current people in power don’t like is a Nazi symbol.

        Someone wants to keep their pepe memes.

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      I think Germany is suffering because of this law. It feeds the conspiracy native that these movements often thrive upon.

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      Yeah, more authoritarianism. That has historically solved all the worlds problems.

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        Don’t you understand, if we make the symbols illegal then people won’t have those beliefs anymore. Duh.

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          At least Germany and Austria can deal with you when you try to spread it. If that feels authoritarian to you, good. Cry about it.

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            Accusing a stranger of being a Nazi when faced with reasonable disagreement; the mark of true enlightenment.

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                I interpreted the “you” in the reply to my comment as referring to me specifically.

                If it was meant as a general “you”, then I take it back. I’m not trying build a strawman. I’m just trying to disagree with the notion that every country should have laws like Germany and Austria.

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      There’s all these stories about people going back in time to stop Hitler, but I’ve never read one where someone goes back to the past to convince the art school that his paintings aren’t great yet, but he has potential.

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        Watch him then gain fame as a world renown painter and then ends up galvanizing the world-wide fascist movement that gains power in more than just the handful of countries that did go fascist.

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    So they made his birthplace a police station, which I guess is not the worse idea if you don’t want to take it down. But as long as it’s there, you know it’s going to be used as a symbol and a place of remembrance for the idiots who are nostalgic of the good ol’ fascist times.

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      Tearing it down looks difficult at best as it shares walls with buildings on both sides.

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        No, just one side. But I’m sure the builders in the area have experience working in that situation, given how many are built like that.

  • Edwardthefma99✡@lemmy.world
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    This is disturbing I blame the education system these people obviously didn’t learn there history and weren’t taught morals