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Nobody thinks of a nazi concentration camp symbol to label liberals, social democrats, and any party dissenter (this was not the one used to mark jews) either.
by tathougies 6y ago
Nobody thinks of a nazi concentration camp symbol to label liberals, social democrats, and any party dissenter (this was not the one used to mark jews) either.
- happytoexplain 6y agoWhich is why it was chosen. It's not obvious. It's just a red triangle.
- koheripbal 6y agoIt's not just "not obvious" - it's not used at all. ...and hasn't been since 1945. ...and even then it wasn't known except to the people in a few camps. ...so what's your hypothesis here? That he told them to use a near-nonexistent symbol as a secret message to the, maybe 5 people in the world that remembered that symbol? Does that sound like a credible theory to you? ...or isn't it more likely that some stupid intern just fucked up?
- ryandvm 6y agoThis. I can't wait until we are rid of Trump, but this honestly just seems like somebody was ignorantly copying and pasting symbols. Why would a campaign intentionally risk the political fallout of using Nazi imagery when that candidate is already the established favorite for white supremacists? There's enough factual shit to be disgusted about regarding Trump, we don't need to be fabricating conspiracies out of geometric primitives.
- pelliphant 6y agoI have no opinion about what is the most likely scenario, but: Using really far-fetched nazi symbols in campaigns seems like a smart move if you want maximum attention and for your opponents to call it out, and then most people going: "?? whats nazi about a triange??".
- subsection1h 6y agoI learned about the Nazi triangles after seeing a pink triangle on a girl's jacket when I was in middle school decades ago. You've seriously never heard about these Nazi triangles before?