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I have a reason to post a Riker after what happened in the U.S. on Tuesday! Oh god, it's better than therapy...
Good.
It was a mistake letting Nazis and others practice their terrorist views in public. Freedom of expression is not and never should be an absolute right.
I understand why people seem to think we should tolerate these views, because "muh free speech," but to them, I say:
The paradox of tolerance doesn't exist once you understand that tolerance is a social contract.
If one party doesn't adhere to the contract, then the other party also doesn't have to either.
I keep forgetting who said it, and I will rephrase terribly but there's this antifa quote that goes something like "A person of color, homosexual, or Jew doesn't really have a choice to stop being who they're. Meanwhile, a fascist can stop spreading their hate towards others. That's all we ask, and we won't be tolerant."
Also, what does it mean to "tolerate" the existence of minorities? What exactly are we "tolerating"? Tolerance in every other context means to accept deviation from a standard or some negative outcome.
Framing anyone's mere existence as a thing to be "tolerated" is to imply they are deviant or negative.
That's where the paradox of tolerance loses me. I don't think we should be tolerant in general. I think we should make value judgements about what is good or bad and act accordingly. Every society does this, and pretending we're above it all and completely neutral is dishonest.
And if the "tolerance" is of differing views, diversity of thought is also good, not a bad thing to be tolerated.
It's simple: we identify behaviour that is bad, like bigotry and hatred, and we say no. We're not rejecting it because it's merely different, and to accept that framing is to accept the cry-bullying of fascists. We reject them because they suck, and we don't owe them shit about it.
Imagine being his lawyer and having to come up with an argument to defend him. Yeesh
A lawyer one time said that his job when defending someone that couldn't be defended is guaranteeing that the prosecutors do their job property just because the guy is totally guilt
"My support of political ideologies which directly propose genocide is completely non-violent, trust me bro."
As long as you comply
And you aren't part of thee group were genociding
It's the tolerance paradox, you can't tolerate these people and have a peaceful democracy. This is the answer.
Didn't we used to kill Nazi's and celebrate their demise in movies like Indiana Jones?
Apparently we didn't kill enough
Would be easier to continue if our state apprati didn't protect them. You'd get shot by police for shooting at Nazi's now.
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Self-described Nazi
Yeah, there's a term for that: Nazi. Just call them that.
I think it's to clarify that it's not coming from the judgement of the newspaper. The Nazi himself is calling himself a Nazi. So, there's no doubt about it.
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This dude looks so much like the Austrian neo-nazi Martin Sellner that it's actually uncanny. I genuinely thought this was him. Maybe they are long lost brothers?
The pictured dude in the article is apparently
Tim Smartt, the lawyer for Jacob Hersant, arriving at court in Melbourne, Australia, on Friday
and not the shithead himself. But I don't disagree
Nah, it's definitely him. It looks to be an error in the caption. Or his lawyer looks uncannily like his client.
I don't like Nazis for sure, but I also don't like people being jailed for expressing their views and speech. So my thought would be to get like two or three hundred protesters together and all go to that courthouse and make that salute and make them arrest every one of them. If the court system wants to waste their own time and tons of taxpayer money, prosecuting people for free speech, then let them do so. Kind of like Iran using $2,000 drones to cost Israel $2 million missiles.
I'm sorry, since when was being a nazi in public in any way tolerable? We aren't talking about "I don't like cereal" here, the nazis were arguably one of the darkest times of our history. Trying to revive it is absolutely not acceptable.
Never give the government power that you would not want turned against you because governments change. I vehemently disagree with their cause, but I would also vehemently defend their right to express their opinion.
Nazi ideology is never an opinion. It's a threat to human rights and democracy.
This is the right take, and the fact that these people aren't seeing it is insane.
No, we've just seen enough at this point to understand that absolute freedom of speech/expression is a mistake.
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No, fuck off with your take. That is free speech taken to a literal extreme. Allowing free speech to this extent encourages fascist and Nazi movements to flourish. Nazis should feel uncomfortable or unable to express these views.
Eco warriors should worry about being imprisoned for going to demonstrations. These are the kinds of things that can happen when you give your government power to jail people they do not like.
Edit: What happens if Australia's equivalent of Donald Trump gets in office and enact the policy mentioned above?
Not every country has such a paranoid view of their government as Americans do. Some systems function a bit better when the people want something done.
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Despite free speech supposedly legally allowing protests and demonstrations there is still a real risk of being imprisoned.
My point is even "free speech" is not total free speech in the United States for example. There are still compromises in free speech so we may preserve order. Allowing free speech to that extent lets these movements flourish.
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Edit: What happens if Australia's equivalent of Donald Trump gets in office and enact the policy mentioned above?
See because they have reasonable limits on supporting fascism publicly, there's less of it going around, so they don't exactly have an equivalent demented child-raping fascist to vote for.
"I don't like Nazis" "We should get 300 people to give the Nazi salute outside a courthouse". Shut the fuck up. Shut the fuck up. Shut the fuck up. I say this with all the sincerity in my heart, you are a moron and you are part of the problem. You are contributing to the rise of alt-right and fascist leaders around the world. There is zero leeway in this argument, everything Nazi related is bad and none of it should be tolerated.
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300 Nazis outing themselves and going to prison to (hopefully) be rehabilitated with counseling?
Don't threaten me with a good time.
(I am aware the prison system is not super fantastic in Australia, but we're miles ahead of the US, and some of this 300 may actually be dissuaded. And also, they're Nazis, so. If you believe your fellow human beings are animals, then you don't get free speech, sorry.)
Hate speech is not free speech. That's as simple as it gets. Most rational countries understand this.
Australia doesn't have the first amendment because we aren't the US. We do however think that if you want to talk shit and start fights, we have the legal right to tell you to calm the fuck down with extreme prejudice, see exhibit a.
Not how it works. Gestures, like words, have a meaning. Even in the USA, saying certain words in certain ways can get you arrested; harassment, threats, etc. This gesture is meant to convey threat and to harass religious and racial minorities. There is no other reason to make the gesture.
Do it again 😉! Let's rack that baby up to 20 to life!.... How many years did he get?
It's literally in the summary. 1 month.
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