Do they just jail those convicted of this, or do they also require undergoing significant therapy during the sentence? Because if they don’t, they’re only going to ensure increased levels of the anger & resentment which led to those extremist views to begin with.
Man jailed for a year after endorsing neo-Nazi views and making antisemitic speech at Sydney rally on Australia Day
Submitted 8 hours ago by zero_gravitas@aussie.zone to australia@aussie.zone
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SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 7 hours ago
FireWire400@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Being jailed for a year surely will make him change his mind about being a nazi /s
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
He’ll just move to America, where we’ll probably make him a mayor or some shit.
Guys…it’s bad here.
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 8 hours ago
Why? What’s happening? I never hear anything from over there.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 7 hours ago
considering australia has neo-nazis that went to US, murdoch, and nick adams.
hanrahan@piefed.social 8 hours ago
He cant, he won’t be allowed in with a criminal conviction :)
DavidDoesLemmy@aussie.zone 5 hours ago
I year in prison seems excessive to me for a 40 second speech. I could imagine a few hundred hours of community service.
People kill cyclists and get less punishment than this idiot.
trajekolus@piefed.social 5 hours ago
As time passed, and History got devalued as a subject in favour of technology subjects, I guess it was always inevitable that people would lose awareness of what Fascism is, and why it should not be allowed to return.
Chais@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
Bet it was the antisemitism that got him time.
SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 7 hours ago
Yep.
The 34-year-old took the stage at the end of the march and endorsed neo-Nazi views before being immediately arrested by police.
On Wednesday, he was sentenced at Downing Centre local court to 12 months behind bars for intentionally inciting hatred.
The magistrate, Sharon Freund, criticised Koschel’s 40-second speech – in which he twice called Jews the “greatest enemy” – as clearly antisemitic and vilifying a vulnerable community.
kurikai@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
good. but not long enough
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 7 hours ago
Jailed for “inciting hatred”…… Jesus Christ we’re a joke of a country.
The guys a racist fucking moron, but jailing people for voicing their opinions is terrifying and authoritarian. I hope anyone celebrating this remembers they’re reaction when people with opposing views to them are in power throwing people in jail over words.
TheLunatickle@lemmy.zip 7 hours ago
Paradox of tolerance.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 7 hours ago
That concept is, pardon my French, complete bullshit.
Remember - you’re being intolerant of people who hold views you don’t like. Think what these laws mean when, not if, people with opposing views to you get in power.
finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
…com.au/…/crisafulli-insists-his-hate-speech-laws…
Crisafulli in QLD wants up to 2 years in prison for anyone saying ‘from the river to the sea’ as well as ‘globalise the intifada’.
Also: “The ban will also apply to any phrases, spoken or written, decided by the attorney-general of the day”.
decided by the attorney-general of the day
Lodespawn@aussie.zone 7 minutes ago
It’s wild that pro-Palestine/anti-israel protestors are being lumped in with neo Nazis. Particularly when Israelis and neo Nazis have so many common opinions …
fizzle@quokk.au 5 hours ago
Context is really important.
I agree that the QLD legislation is scary - it’s bullshit that their legislation is going to “proscribe” that specific phrase, so if one utters it then that’s an offense regardless of intent or context.