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Australian lawmakers have banned the performance of the Nazi salute in public and outlawed the display or sale of Nazi hate symbols such as the swastika in landmark legislation that went into effect in the country Monday. The new laws also make the act of glorifying OR praising acts of terrorism a criminal offense.

The crime of publicly performing the Nazi salute or displaying the Nazi swastika is punishable by up to 12 months in prison, according to the Reuters news agency.

Mark Dreyfus, Australia's Attorney-General, said in a press release Monday that the laws — the first of their kind in the country — sent "a clear message: there is no place in Australia for acts and symbols that glorify the horrors of the Holocaust and terrorist acts."

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[-] Grass@sh.itjust.works 13 points 10 months ago

This reminds me of that black white supremacist skit.

[-] Archer@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Then Chapelle got rich and decided to go full right wing

[-] Grass@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months ago

It seems like they all do. Or for some at least they always were but pretended to avoid being cancelled before having enough money to not care.

[-] liquidparasyte@pawb.social 1 points 10 months ago

We need to shut down the stand up venues until we figure what the fuck is going on

[-] Facebones@reddthat.com 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

God help you if you're just generally not interested in watching the fuckin thing, every "free speech absolutist" within a three mile radius comes down on you for not supporting Dave over "just jokes!"

Bro calm your stiffy I just don't care about the guy cause it's, yknow, 2024.

[-] StorminNorman@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

Honestly, it's worse, if you're thinking of the Chappelle's Show skit. At least the character Clayton Bigsby is also blind so he literally doesn't know he's actually white.

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