Nazi symbols banned in ACT under new laws

So does that mean the “Black lives matter” fist clenched arm stretched action similar to the Nazi salute is also banned.

In over 38 years living here in Canberra, I’ve never met a neo-Nazi. The only extremists I’ve met and seen that want to destroy our way of life are the socialists aka communists!

Just ban all socialist symbols…oh wait, that’ll mean Labour and greens would be banned.

I suppose collecting, buying and selling Third Reich stamps featuring a swastika is ok, but what do police do with someone who has a swastika tattoo?

“Under the proposed laws, the symbol would still be allowed to be used for cultural or educational purposes…”

Just when we thought there might never be another amateur production of The Sound of Music (or The Producers) in Canberra.

On the point raised earlier by Futureproof, the pre-Nazi version of the symbol was used as a decoration on pre-war editions of the works of Rudyard Kipling – obviously reflecting the Indian connection – and would sometimes be seen as a good luck symbol on the exterior of Australian homes of that era.

ACT Government hitting all the pressing issues as usual. Maybe get out and do some weeding and clean this place up Rattenbury.

Another silly knee jerk reaction by governments. This will mostly affect innocent collectors of WWII artifacts who are most certainly not neonazis or hate filled white supremacists.
Should we not then also ban the Australian flag because the regime slaughtered indigenous peoples, the American flag because they killed innocents in the Vietnam war & plenty of others & why stop there – ban the collecting of any Roman items as they most certainly slaughtered their fair share of peoples over the centuries. Ban too the collecting of any Japanese items because of the murdering of POW’s et al….
Total BS.

At first I thought this legislation is trivial and easy points, because of all the mass-murdering ideologies of the 20th century only the nazis were ever called to account. We all know it’s evil, but yet its murderous ideological opposite still has an extraordinary number of admirers, such as the ABC’s Phillip Adams.

But then I remembered a superb conversation I had recently with an ultra orthodox Jewish elder from Elsternwick, who regarded nazism with a very present sense of horror. So yes, good, those symbols should die.

Violence-attracted “antifa” should also not wear them as clothing patches, no matter coyly with a diagonal line through them. However, there the legislation fails. Antifa still get to wear swastikas.

Yet Australia still gives money to the Nazis in Ukraine. Oh the irony.

Will the hammer and sickle also be banned?

The Nazis used a religious symbol and rotated it to produce one of the most hateful movements in history. Having been to India, I have seen the original religious symbol on temples and structures, particularly in the far north of the country