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Boy, 15, given official warning after saluting as neo-Nazis marched through Ballarat (www.theguardian.com)
submitted 11 months ago by Marsupial@quokk.au to c/australia@aussie.zone
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The officers issued him an official warning after determining his actions were not racially motivated.

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[โ€“] rainynight65@feddit.de 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You people really are ultra-keen on another era of fascism, aren't you?

Read and understand the paradox of tolerance before you continue simping for fascists. When they get into power, they won't browse Lemmy and check who's been good to them. They'll take your freedom, your human rights, no matter how much you fought for theirs.

Democracy is pretty much the only form of governance that can be used to dismantle itself. That's what happened in 1933. It's happening again. So it has to defend itself, and the first line of defense should be to not tolerate fascism. It's really not that hard. So next time, before you google a fancy Nietzsche quote, maybe go to Wikipedia instead and start in 1933, see how the fascist state came about that later brought war and genocide to the world.

[โ€“] Tb0n3@sh.itjust.works -4 points 11 months ago

I said nothing about being tolerant only not criminalizing it.