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It's probably just poor humor, but it doesn't reflect well on them.
by necrotic_comp 6y ago
It's probably just poor humor, but it doesn't reflect well on them.
- fossuser 6y agoI'm less likely to assume humor given what's going on in politics. You can think marxism sucks (I do) without torchlight marches and nazi naming schemes. The latter is something else.
- recursive 6y agoFWIW this was all several years ago. I don't know if the mail server still exists with the same name. And I still don't know what's wrong with a torchlight hike/march. (They call it a hike, you call it a march) It sounds like something I'd do.
- varjag 6y agoThey did Tiki torch march a couple weeks after Charlottesville, which am sure is just another unfortunate coincidence. Can happen to anyone!
- flukus 6y agoThey did it in Germany, where Charlottesville was likely a 30 second news clip that everyone forgot about. Stop with the cultural imperialism, race relations in the US are rather unique.
- varjag 6y agoI am in Europe, it was top news for many days.
- hobofan 6y agoEven unrelated to Charlottesville torch walks generally have right wing connotations, as it was a traditional show of force by the Nazis. In Germany these days you mostly see them done as right wing rallies. As one data point, here[0] you can see NPD members calling for protest holding torches (during broad daylight). [0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4QUC0aXN8M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4QUC0aXN8M
- fossuser 6y agoMaybe it's just wildly bad self-awareness mixed with being obnoxious, but maybe it's not: https://www.cnn.com/2017/08/12/us/white-nationalists-tiki-torch-march-trnd/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2017/08/12/us/white-nationalists-tiki-to... The torches are used as a symbol - might be nothing, but paired with speaking out against cultural marxism it's more likely to be intentional than it otherwise would be. I don't know, but I'm not giving them the benefit of the doubt since the mail server is fairly explicit if true. When people tell you who they are, believe them.
- MajesticHobo2 6y agoIn addition to that, "Cultural Marxism" doesn't just refer to Marxism. It's an antisemitic canard used pretty much exclusively by the far right.
- recursive 6y agoI looked it up on wikipedia. But it was like learning monads from wikipedia. It's a dense nest of jargon that just leaves me wondering which way is up if I spend more than a few minutes following links.
- anoncake 6y agoA German calling their computer "Wolfsschanze"? They are not joking.