Comment on No plans to ban more phrases under hate speech laws, Queensland premier says
Zagorath@aussie.zone 6 days ago
The government has already confirmed it intends to use the laws to ban the phrases “from the river to the sea” and “globalise the intifada”.
Asked on Thursday if his government was open to outlawing more expressions in the future, Mr Crisafulli said: “No. No, we’ve said the two phrases.”
That’s already a red line. Banning phrases that call for resistance to oppression and for freedom from that oppression is disgusting.
But let’s say it’s not. Let’s say their claim that these are hateful calls to violence wasn’t an antisemitic lie predicated on the idea that all Jews are complicit in the crimes of Israel. Think through the consequences of that.
Maybe Crisafulli is being honest and only these two phrases are planned. But circumstances change. What if there’s another event that can be tied via a similarly roundabout route to another phrase? Or what about the next government? Crisafulli won’t be in charge forever, and he’s just handed his successor some immense power.
And that power would be so easy to abuse.
Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone 5 days ago
I don’t really understand what your saying in this bit.
Zagorath@aussie.zone 5 days ago
Could you elaborate? I don’t really understand what bit you don’t understand. Particularly since the quoted bit that you said you didn’t understand leaves off the payoff that that was an introduction to?
Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone 5 days ago
I think its the first sentence that throws me,
I’m not sure what ‘it’ is in this sentence.
Zagorath@aussie.zone 5 days ago
“it” is “banning phrases that call for resistance to oppression and for freedom from that oppression”. I had just said “it” is disgusting, and then say “but let’s say it’s not?”