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So what do you call white supremacists who adorn themselves with swastikas?

• PaulHoule 3y ago
  “Clowns” or “Dumbasses who want to get attention.” That is maybe 5% of the people who that N-word gets applied to. Mostly it is an attempt at dehumanization that follows very much the playbook of Herr Hitler himself. If the antics of the occasional Nazi cosplayer get blocked that is not collateral damage, it is a very good thing even if it off target. That stuff gets amplified so much that somebody else is likely to show up to counterprotest and pelt them with a bag of little bolts (a tactic that the Spartacus League used to great effect when the KKK showed up in Auburn, NY.)
  • dvngnt_ 3y ago
    you can be a clown and a nazi at the same time https://cbs12.com/news/local/orlando-nazi-demonstration-florida-hate-problem-racist-white-supremist https://cbs12.com/news/local/orlando-nazi-demonstration-flor...
    • lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 3y ago
      This seems to miss the point of their comment. They're "clowns" or "dumbasses who want to get attention" because they're pretending to be nazis. (I clicked on that thinking I'd see someone with a big red nose, rainbow wig, and a swastika tattooed on their forehead; closed that tab in disappointment.)
• the_third_wave 3y ago
  A rare sight, not worth giving them the attention they obviously crave. The problem does not lie there, it lies in the abuse of terms like nazi/fascist/racist which get applied to people who simply don't hold with the labeller's narrative. It has gone so far as to make these labels meaningless - this is not the boy who cried 'wolf' but the girl who cried 'racist'.