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Here is the actual symbol.
If you had asked me what that symbol was before this campaign, I would have just said a pirate symbol. The only people with obsessive knowledge of SS iconography are WW2 buffs, neonazis, and neonazi WW2 buffs.
If you gave the average person a quiz, asking people to pick out nazi iconography from other uses of that imagery such as pirate flags. Most would fail that quiz. You likely would as well.
I'm sorry, but the "Nazi tattoo" thing is bullshit. A kid got a pirate flag tattoo, later found it was problematic, and covered it up. And bottom feeders like you use that as justification to slander him, even though there is no allegation he has ever been involved in any neo Nazi or similar movements ever before. I think you may be the actual Nazi here.
The average person doesn't have this symbol tattooed on their chest, and as such are less prone to learn about it. When you (a person who presumably doesn't have a Totenkopf on their chest) see a Totenkopf in the countless media about WWII, or the are we the baddies meme, or whatever, it doesn't stand out to you, and it isn't memorable, and you forget, and you don't learn about it. And that makes complete sense.
But if you have it tattooed on your chest, and it's what you see every morning when you brush your teeth, you're a bit more likely to go "wait a minute I know that" when a totenkopf appears on the screen. Maybe you'll miss it the first couple times, but in 18 whole years of adult life with this thing on your chest, you will at some point make the connection between your tattoo and the symbol on David Mitchell's cap.
Also, just as a meta argument: arguing that someone who knows what a Totenkopf is is a nazi but that having it tattooed on your chest is fine is completely fucking bizarre.
Yes pretend people alive right now haven’t been raised by family directly affected by Nazis. As if our parents and grandparents didn’t exist.
You are betraying the memory of all those killed in the Holocaust by watering down the term Nazi. People one here are calling Platner a Nazi even though there has never been any evidence that he has ever been a member of a neo Nazi group, ever espoused Nazi ideals or policies, ever attended Nazi events, etc.
You're like a 17th century witch hunter looking for weird looking moles on people, concluding their signs of the Devil's corruption. You can't actually demonstrate Platner doing any actual Nazi stuff, so you have to grasp at the straw of a tattoo a drunk kid got one day while in the Marines.
And really, go to the actual Wikipedia article on the Totenkopf Note that the exact same symbol was used as a pirate flag. For most people, that's what they associate with the deaths head.
If what you claim is true, why has every pirate movie not been picketed by the Jewish rights groups? I imagine they would be protested if they had pirates flying swastika flags. Yet, no one gave a shit about pirate symbols until a progressive candidate has one on his chest.
It's not an obscure symbol, it is one of the most commonly used Nazi emblems, for example seen here:
BWAHAHAA!
That sketch came out a year before he got the tattoo. You think a deployed early 20s marine was watching a lot of British comedy shows? You're a buffoon.
If your best evidence of it being a widely known Nazi symbol was that it was on a sketch of the “Mitchell and Webb” show, you’ve got some pretty shit evidence
You mean the widely used meme that most people don’t know where it’s from but do know is a Nazi immediately when they see it?
Ehm, cough, cough, …, this is the sign of the 3rd SS Panzer Division. So, yep, it is related to the Third Reich and hence to the Nazi regime.
Can you tell me which of these are Nazi symbols and which of them are pirate symbols?
This is an invalid argument because it pretends dogwhistles aren't real, it pretends the intent is irrelevant of other interpretations exists.
HE KNEW THE ASSOCIATION AND KEPT IT
If it's that terrible of a symbol, why aren't pirate movies protested by Jewish rights groups? I guess Johnny Depp is a Nazi too?