ZMoney@lemmy.worldtoWorld News@lemmy.world•Mandatory jail term for Nazi salute under new hate crime rules in AustraliaEnglish
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18 hours agoI hope you’re right but I’m less optimistic about courts.
I hope you’re right but I’m less optimistic about courts.
The thing is this just makes it “cooler” among the Nazis because now it’s illegal. It plays right into their persecution complex. It also opens up a legal morass of trying to define a hand gesture in court. To me this seems like it’s fighting the symptoms and not the underlying problems.
Then they become martyrs for their group.