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The red triangle was used by the Nazis to identify political prisoners (eg communists), not Jews or blacks or anything "hateful" like that. It's completely norm
by lopmotr 6y ago
The red triangle was used by the Nazis to identify political prisoners (eg communists), not Jews or blacks or anything "hateful" like that. It's completely normal for countries at war to have political prisoners and even in peacetime too. America still has it's own political prisoners in prison right now for crimes like spying and leaking classified information. Other western countries are even worse, having people locked up for expressing banned political ideas. Ironically, that includes Nazis themselves in Europe, but it's also illegal to display the ISIS flag in the UK, for instance. People obviously love having political prisoners.
- happytoexplain 6y agoYou're saying that if a person chooses to use a symbol that Nazis used to identify their political enemies in their prisons, that person can't be expressing anything hateful because other countries also use symbols to categorize prisoners. I almost can't believe that you actually think that.
- lopmotr 6y agoYes. Just because the Nazis did it, doesn't make it "hateful" (racist, etc.). People are going off the rails worrying about any kind of symbols or hints related to Nazis because they've somehow become a popular bogeyman.