Australia’s two-tier policing of hate speech. By Flat White in The Spectator.

A week into Labor’s new hate speech laws, they are only being applied to some people — not to the left’s favorite groups. Surprised?

So far, the only disbanded hate group belongs to the cosplaying neo-Nazis … The only people arrested are members of this group. And the only person who has had their visa cancelled was … an Israeli invited to Australia by the Australian Jewish Association. Whoops! …

Does the government think if they banned the fist of Marxism or the hammer and sickle of communism that history’s most bloodthirsty political system would disband peacefully?

Indeed, why didn’t Labor seek to include these groups in its ban if public safety has become the critical issue?

There are a lot of communists and Marxists shouting antisemitic threats in the street lately, and there are more of them than there are neo-Nazis. These are the groups falsely painting the Jews as Nazis to justify genocidal threats. …

Antisemitism is far more deeply embedded on the left than the right, especially in taxpayer-funded institutions.

(And yes, for the thousandth time, the National Socialists, including the neo variety, are Big State socialist race collectivists. They are left-wing and always were. That’s not to say there isn’t hostility toward Israel in some quarters of the right, there is, but the Marxists, socialists, National Socialists, communists, and fascists are all the same species. There is nothing remotely conservative about them.) …

There has been no outrage from the Prime Minister or the bleeding-heart Left about the desecration of war memorials and precious colonial-era monuments destroyed by self-declared pro-Palestinians who left their mark on the rubble.

 

It’s not like our flag and memorials are rock art

 

And the internet is still full of these ideologies threatening Jewish people and telling Australians that their ‘colony will fall’.

That last slogan is a waking threat against the public safety of every Australian. …

In other words, the hate speech legislation has been a total failure when it comes to protecting Australians, protecting the Jewish community, and removing Islamic radicals from our strained social fabric.

You are always going to have a couple of people who think Hitler was cool, just as there are hundreds of thousands of serious academics who think the murderous Mao and Stalin were ‘great men’. None of this has the slightest bit of relevance to the threat of Islamic terrorism.