AusGeoff wrote on Aug 13^th, 2022 at 2:46pm:



This is really a stupid analogy.  Child porn is illegal, whether recorded or not. It is not the pictures in themselves, it is theact that the pictures evidence.

The swastika is a symbol of an ideology.  Can that ideology be discussed and depicted? Of course. It is not an illegal act to discuss ideas in a way that it is illegal to commit certain acts (recorded or not). There is no context in which child porn is not illegal and despicable.
Nazism and the swastika is offensive in only certain circumstances. 

Now all you have to do is differentiate the Nazi swastika from similar designs.

https://listverse.com/2015/08/01/10-historical-swastikas-unrelated-to-the-nazis/

AusGeoff wrote on Aug 15^th, 2022 at 7:54pm:


We'd better ban the Star and Crescent then, the symbol of Islam. Muslims hate Jews

AusGeoff wrote on Aug 15^th, 2022 at 7:54pm:


What positive benefit do you see from the ban in terms of the popularity of right wing extremism, and how do you think the law will achieve it?

It's a question Geoff.

What positive benefit do you see from the ban in terms of the popularity of right wing extremism, and how do you think the law will achieve it?

freediver wrote on Aug 15^th, 2022 at 9:28pm:


I'd say one positive is that any Jewish Aussies will be feeling a sense of
relief that these anti-semetists won't be able to parade the swastika in
public.  Australia has the ninth largest Jewish population in the world
with an estimated 112,000 Jewish people, and many of them have direct
familial ties to victims of the holocaust—parents or grandparents.

I don't see that banning the swastika in Australia can have any effect on
the small neo-Nazi groups, which are despised by the vast majority of
rational Aussies.  It certainly won't improve their image—such as it is.

The swastika is seldom used by the larger, hard-core white supremacist
groups. This is Blair Cottrell, an Australian far-right extremist, often described
as a neo-Nazi, and former chairman and founding member of the United
Patriots Front and the Lads Society addressing his supporters.





And... not a swastika in sight here either.



The ban on the swastika in public will be easy to enforce;  the carrier is
arrested on the spot by police and taken into custody.     All too easy.

Frank wrote on Aug 14^th, 2022 at 2:32pm:


And so are Nazi symbols in NSW   

Here's a question

If displaying the swastica is illegal in NSW, does that mean people who have it tattooed on their bodies cannot go out in public unless it;s covered?