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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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[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 28 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

It is a form of hatespeech and Americans just watched a political figure do it twice on live tv so we are sensitive to it rn. We cannot tolerate intolerance in a tolerant society.

Personally I would prefer if we just hit these people

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 weeks ago

bring back the public humiliation, instead of putting nazis in jail put them on the largest square in the capital and let people spit on them for a week.