askchapo

If he's a true believer/crypto fash there's no convincing them, they might even be playing dumb to fuck with you

Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.

He's putting the onus on you to prove it's a hate symbol (which it is) while he gets to play dumb and say shit like "I dunno I thought he was just a cool medieval frog, you're the one overreacting and being weird about it".

You might have better luck explaining to everyone else in the server why it's a hate symbol & get them on your side. And if everyone is cool with it, well, time to leave that server