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Australia outlaws Nazi salute and hate symbols including Hamas, Hezbollah flag (www.aljazeera.com)

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[–] Octagon9561@lemmy.ml 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Are they also banning the Viet Cong flag? Cause that's basically what Hamas and Hezbollah are for their respective countries. Also, equating resistance movements with the Nazis is utterly disgusting.

[–] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 9 points 9 months ago

fyi "Viet Cong" was a derogatory exonym for Vietnamese communists