I'm really interested to know whether this crime was racially motivated. I really think we need a reckoning in Melbourne over this growing tide of alt-right fascism and racism. We've also had the attack on Camp Sovereignty within the last month.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/31922941

Source.

(Sorry for the reddit link, if you can find it on https://www.extrafabulouscomics.com/ then I'll edit the post, I just couldn't find it.)

Source.

(Sorry for the reddit link, if you can find it on https://www.extrafabulouscomics.com/ then I'll edit the post, I just couldn't find it.)

Article discussing alternatives to the current policing system. I think this is super important because people often (rightfully) get hung up on what we would do as a society to prevent crime, especially violent crime.

After Camp Sovereignty was attacked on the 31st August, no charges of hate crimes nor terrorism have been brought by the police against those involved. Perpetrators include known neo-Nazis such as Thomas Sewell, leader of the National Socialist Network.

The National Socialist Network is a highly politicised group. Their crime was undoubtedly motivated by white supremacist beliefs, including some sort of a reclaiming of a white Australia, which is a fallacy in this settler colonial country. But this does not change the fact that advancing their political cause was the reason for the violence, which does fall within the Australian definition of terrorism.

As well, eyewitnesses report watching police escort the neo-Nazi group away from the site of the attack and onto trams, rather than arresting them.

On his 3CR radio show Black Block last Monday, Uncle Robbie had Palestinian Syrian activist Nathalie Farah on to speak about her experience of the attack. She recalled that during the day there had been two incidents of neo-Nazis wandering around the site, and after the actual attack, they’d seen footage of the police escorting Nazis away from the camp to the tram stop but not arresting them.

Tara Barnett, the Greens candidate for Cooper at this past election, talking about violence directed at protestors during weekly pro-Palestine rally in Melbourne. The protest was crashed by alt-right protestors, but the police focused most of their violence against the original group.

You could easily make the call that I deserve this ban. But after Jordan lied about a user the other day, calling them transphobic to try and get trans people (and others) on his side as a cis white man, I just did not have the patience for him to start talking @ me about anything related to gender.

Not only that, but his reply in itself was a bit of* a powertrip in my opinion. I reported the bottom comment as "seems a bit attack helicopter-y?" mainly because that user seemed to have a posting history that indicated being a bit of an outrage merchant. I didn't necessarily want the comment removed, more than anything I was hoping to ping @ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone to keep an eye on the user. It feels like his reply was a bit of "I've seen this, I don't care and I'm going to show you that I don't care by replying to you publicly without acknowledging your report privately".

I'm also pretty sure I upset his feefees with my comment the other day here on !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com and he jumped at the opportunity to ban me from somewhere. Yeah, I baited that reaction but come on, a permanent ban on a first offence? Yeah, alright mate.

I didn't even realise I was in a lemmy.world community, let alone one @jordanlund@lemmy.world moderates (god one of the other mods is PugJesus) or I pawbably wouldn't have participated. Going to have to go through all my lemmy.world comms now and unsubscribe I think. Can you imagine running a comm about the heinous nature of policing and then being so authoritarian?

...until it is.