Queensland has joined NSW, WA and Tasmania to ban tattoos that depict hate symbols.
Yeah, that’s right, no more skin swastika’s for wanna-be Nazis. Boo hoo.
Tattoos are meant to be edgy, meant to display your inner self, but this shouldn’t have to be a law. Seriously, just don’t do it, tattooist and tattee. You’re idiots.
In one of those weird quirks of regulations, in Victoria, which has banned displaying Nazi symbols in public spaces, you can still get a Nazi tattoo as it’s considered incompatible with the state’s charter of human rights as it would restrict a person’s right to freedom of expression.
It was also considered hard to enforce, which is probably the real problem.
We shouldn’t need legislation to stop people waving around Nazi symbols, personal shame should be enough.
Do you think the laws go far enough?
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