Yet.

  • BrandoGil@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Maybe. The upvotes outweighed them, though. There’s also a chance it comes from the punk community. And I’m betting they’re more likely to be here than Nazis at this point.

    There’s a big thing right now that has that community on the defensive trying to erase the connotation between punks and Nazis. I’m sympathetic to the community, actually. You can’t control who tries to co-opt your aesthetic so there was a movement in the 80s and 90s aptly named “Nazi punks fuck off”. About a month ago, a few videos went viral calling out the fact that they still had swastika patches even if there was a cross over top of them. From my perspective it was a misinformed, but well meaning argument and it’s had much of the community on edge, since.

    • MelonTheMan@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      That’s a good point that I hadn’t considered.

      I’d expect someone to raise it as a point, though, because I’ve seen the Nazi in a bar meme a million times but never has anyone pointed out the problematic linkage of punks and nazis.

      I think it’s more likely that there are bad faith trolls here already that, rather than engage in a discussion, downvote to silence views they don’t like.