Victoria's Anti-Vilification law - latest proposed update: 3-5 years jail for LIKELY vilifying someone

[johnsmith]

Proposed changes to Victoria's anti-vilification laws

Have your say on the proposed changes to the law to protect people from hate speech and conduct.

engage.vic.gov.au

Article closed for feedback: 11 October 2024

Proposed hate speech laws aimed at protecting the vulnerable spark mixed response

Proposed changes to the Racial and Religious Tolerance Act will balance individual rights, free speech and religious belief.

www.abc.net.au

Response to the Inquiry into Anti-Vilification Protections

The government wants to reduce hate crime and vilification in Victoria. Vilification has no place in our community.

www.vic.gov.au

 

[Pasquali]

Why is Australia going in this direction? While I’m not a hateful person I hate the government telling me what I can and cannot say. We already have laws for violence and harassment.

 

[JS96]

We see shifts in tolerance of certain behaviour. Years ago you could openly say who you preferred politically and that's alright. Nowadays, a comment on certain policy ends up being told 'you don't align with our company's values.' Certainly hate speech or anything blatantly obvious as a no-go is understandable but the creeps towards even the smallest of utterances is concerning.

While trying to explain yourself and also double check that you were in fact, engaging in conversation, you get screamed over, reported and vilified.

 

[johnsmith]

Why is Australia going in this direction? While I’m not a hateful person I hate the government telling me what I can and cannot say. We already have laws for violence and harassment.

Because the act of silencing one's opponents is the ultimate act of power - because it shuts down one of the most intrinsic freedoms of any person.

Because, as Lord Acton said: “power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely”.

Because, it never was just about stopping actual acts of vilification -- but the real aim is to stamp out anything that could "likely" be a vilification.

 

[johnsmith]

... While trying to explain yourself and also double check that you were in fact, engaging in conversation, you get screamed over, reported and vilified.

Have you witnessed, or heard reports of that happening?

I work in a really friendly office environment where all of us are genuinely friends with everyone. I miss out on the office politics that I realistically would expect to occur in other office environments.

 

[JS96]

Have you witnessed, or heard reports of that happening?

I work in a really friendly office environment where all of us are genuinely friends with everyone. I miss out on the office politics that I realistically would expect to occur in other office environments.

Just over many years at work meetings, staff room chats or in classrooms. Had a northern UK colleague call one female colleague a tart, which means wimp there, for another female colleague to stand u shrieking about abuse etc. Thing is, between these two, their banter levels were of the chart where anything goes. The said supervisor just looked at the floor and ignored it, more down to their own management style than anything. An adult learner course participant will share their tactful concern or dislike for something another culture does (halal slaughter) for example only to be vilified and removed from the course.

 

[tsf]

Because the act of silencing one's opponents is the ultimate act of power - because it shuts down one of the most intrinsic freedoms of any person.

Because, as Lord Acton said: “power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely”.

Because, it never was just about stopping actual acts of vilification -- but the real aim is to stamp out anything that could "likely" be a vilification.

what do you think of blasphemy?

 

[Monoethnic Social Club]

what do you think of blasphemy?

or teaching evolution in schools? hahahahahahaha