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Mandatory jail for Nazi salutes under new Australia laws (www.bbc.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by remington to c/news

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[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 19 points 2 weeks ago

Our US government would consider it anti-semitic not to use a nazi salute twice on stage in front of millions of people.

I was almost going to mention Musk's gesture as an example of how context dictates meaning, but removed it from my comment. Glad to see that someone else mentioned it though - that gesture can be only understood as a Nazi salute and as support to Nazism, nothing else.

[I'm neither from Australia nor USA, but it's clear that Australia got it right. Musk and his puppet, on the other hand...]