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If We Are Banning the Nazi Symbol, Why Not the Hammer and Sickle?

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If We Are Banning the Nazi Symbol, Why Not the Hammer and Sickle?
Protesters burn the Chinese Communist Party flag in front of the Chinese Consulate in Los Angeles on the 34th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre June 4, 2023. Courtesy of Jie Lijian
David Daintree
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The Australian federal government is proceeding with plans to ban Nazi symbols. That’s fair enough, I suppose, if the ban is confined to just two images—the swastika and the double lightning bolt SS.

David Daintree
David Daintree
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David Daintree is director of the Christopher Dawson Centre for Cultural Studies in Tasmania, Australia. He has a background in classics and teaches Late and Medieval Latin. Mr. Daintree was a visiting professor at the universities of Siena and Venice, and a visiting scholar at the University of Manitoba. He served as president of Campion College from 2008 to 2012. In 2017, he was made a member of the Order of Australia on the Queen’s Birthday Honours List.
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