For the people claiming they’ve never seen the totenkopf before or that they’d never recognize it if they saw it, just remember that they don’t have that symbol tattooed on their chest which they see on a daily basis, they probably aren’t “military history buffs” the way Platner is described, and they probably don’t identify as a lifelong antifascist.

Here are a couple of very famous depictions of Nazis with totenkopfs throughout decades of media, a few of literally hundreds of examples:

Raiders of the Lost Ark

Schindler’s List, which won like half a dozen Oscars

The hugely viral Mitchell & Webb comedy skit that is still a meme after all these years

The Oscar-winning Inglorious Basterds

If you’re everything Platner claims to be and you want to hide behind the claim that you’ve never seen the totenkopf associated with Nazis then that’s an insult to everyone’s intelligence. And if the lesser of two evils is an imperialist henchman who has a Nazi tattoo etched into his skin then what is there to say?

If it was a century ago, the people who are defending Platner would be trying to convince us that Ernst Rohm is the good guy, actually.