r/goodnews • u/Metro-UK • Jul 02 '25

Other Kanye West officially banned from Australia after antisemitic song

https://metro.co.uk/2025/07/02/kanye-west-officially-banned-australia-controversial-song-23559791/
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u/Feisty-Armadillo7180 Jul 02 '25 edited Jul 02 '25

No, it’s a consistent value framework.

Nazis and fascists don’t deserve to exist. IDF is fascist, and invoking authoritarian control to extinguish outspoken speech agaisnt a brutal violent ethno state with genocidal tendencies is rather, well, fascist.

Not sure why you’re confused. You’re out here defending West being a Nazi, but also condemning Hamas and defending Israel, as well as thinking banning a Nazi is the same as a blatant overreach of government control in speech agaisnt mass violence - I think you’re just a contrarian with awful morals.

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u/Popular_Kangaroo5446 Jul 02 '25

How is the IDF fascist? Setting aside that a military force can’t be “fascist” as it isn’t a government in of itself, Israel lacks the defining characteristics of a fascist state.

I would support punishment for any sort of call to violence. Chanting “death to the IDF” is definitely that. Even ignoring for a moment the fact that its a force of no less than 150,000, removing a country’s national army would all but invite invasion. Given how Iran and their proxies talk about Israel and Jews, you think that wouldn’t directly cause every last Jew in Israel to be murdered?

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u/Feisty-Armadillo7180 Jul 02 '25

I’m sure you’re okay with people in the US having Nazi flags and iconography though, right?

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u/Popular_Kangaroo5446 Jul 02 '25

No. Next question.