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[–] survivalmachine@beehaw.org 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Nope. Slippery slopes don't really happen that often in reality. It's mostly just an argument used by Nazi sympathizers to protest against anti-hate speech measures.

[–] brain_in_a_box@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's literally happening in this case; notice that these laws also ban anything the Australian government considers a terrorist group, which is an expansive list.

[–] stmcld@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 10 months ago

I suppose this is the next phase of the slow? slide to fascism. It's depressing