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The number "88" can be. Norse mythology can be. A shaven head can be. Military boots can be. Lots of things can be, but you need look at the context. The entire
by Beltalowda 4y ago
The number "88" can be. Norse mythology can be. A shaven head can be. Military boots can be. Lots of things can be, but you need look at the context. The entire point of a "dogwhistle" is that it looks innocent and that it can be easily confused as such, and this automatically means there are also plenty of innocent uses of such things. A "X is a dog-whistle for Y" assertion is meaningless.
Plus, "Vaguely right-wing" or even "extreme right-wing" is not identical to "Nazi".
- detaro 4y agoWithout context, maybe. But we have the context here, and so even if you pretend there is an actively used other sense it's patently obvious that the term is used in the "evil leftist world-conspiracy" sense.
- Beltalowda 4y agoHaving read the "cultural Marxism" thread, I did not get the impression of "Nazi". I'd have to go find it, but I thought it was stupid and wrong, but really not that bad – certainly not as bad as people make it out to be, which just seems to hinge on the usage of a particular phrase. Even "evil leftist world-conspiracy" doesn't really apply IIRC, which is not the same as "Nazi" in any case. Have people forgotten that the genocide of millions of people was at the core of Nazi ideology?
- l3uwin 4y ago[dead]
- bitwize 4y agoKulturbolschewismus (cultural bolshevism) was a Nazi coinage used to refer to a sinister Jewish conspiracy to undermine German culture with Bolshevik elements. The cultural Marxism meme is as explicitly Nazi as is "sieg heil" and "Arbeit macht frei".