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Australia outlaws Nazi salute and hate symbols including Hamas, Hezbollah flag
(www.aljazeera.com)
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Commonwealth of Enlightened Centrists
They’re going to enforce this law consistently against Palestine’s sympathizers and enforce it against the neofascists maybe about a couple of times, similarly to what happened in the Weimar Republic, and that’s it. The bourgeois state couldn’t be trusted to eliminate fascism then, and it won’t eliminate neofascism now.
The prohibition on Third Reich symbolism is simply there to give the law a veneer of respectability. No doubt it’ll annoy plenty of neofascists, but at the end of the day it’s no big deal; they can just use other fascist symbols or the national flag (like in that photograph). Look at German neofascists: they’re fine with reusing the Twoth Reich’s flag, which also happened to be the Third Reich’s from 1933–1935.
And have you noticed how these centrists almost invariably single out the Third Reich? Do they have any idea what Fascist Italy did in Eurafrica? Or what the Empire of Japan did in Asia? Why do all of the other Axis powers get a free pass?