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Police escort neo-Nazis in early morning march through Melbourne’s CBD (www.theage.com.au)

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Police were largely powerless to stop a neo-Nazi march through the Melbourne CBD, during which officers escorted the group of masked men to “maintain community safety”.

About 100 people from the National Socialist Network dressed in black and wearing face masks marched through the Bourke Street Mall at 12.40am on Saturday.

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[-] melbaboutown@aussie.zone 11 points 2 weeks ago

wtf :/

I agree there needs to be more to stop Neo Nazis. I can’t help but think those powers could be used on other protesters though.

Can there be tightened hate speech laws to particularly target Nazis?

[-] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 14 points 2 weeks ago

I can’t help but think those powers could be used on other protesters though.

Bingo.

Can there be tightened hate speech laws to particularly target Nazis?

Germany has those. The results have predictably not been fun, and also predictably they have done nothing to curb the rise of actual neo-Nazis. Once you make one exception, you can make a hundred.

[-] eureka@aussie.zone 7 points 2 weeks ago

Nazis are no stranger to workarounds and skirting censorship. When the swastika gets banned, they just use the Sonnenrad, Wolfsangel, pseudo-runes, etc. and police end up abusing the laws to arrest people criticising fascism. Homework for the reader: find out how many times a party calling themselves a Centre Party was actually a fascist party. Example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre_Party_(New_South_Wales). Liberalist legal bans just turn fascism into cryptofascism, it takes community effort to root it out properly.

[-] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 5 points 2 weeks ago

Hell even without legal bans and censorship, fascists can't just out and out say what they stand for until they gain solid ground with the electorate; most people need to be innoculated against fascism before they get behind the really horrible stuff. There's a reason the Nazi Party was called the Nationalist Socialist Party and not the Kill All Jews Party.

[-] melbaboutown@aussie.zone 4 points 2 weeks ago

There’s always punching. But I don’t have the arm for it and don’t want to end up with a criminal record so yeah

[-] Nath@aussie.zone 8 points 2 weeks ago

I agree there needs to be more to stop Neo Nazis. I can’t help but think those powers could be used on other protesters though.

This is also my concern. While I mock these losers for hiding behind their masks like cowards, I also don't want it to become illegal to wear a mask in public/protests. Because I might want to wear one someday for something.