• Zombiepirate@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    People laugh at me for warning them, it’s just a game.

    This is a huge part of fascist propaganda, and it’s why the Proud Boys chose that name: it sounds silly and benign, so it lets them fly under the radar.

    The swastika was a universally positive symbol until the Nazis smeared their ideology on it; now it’s a powerful symbol of white-hot ignorant hatred.