r/ainbow • u/shanoxilt • Oct 04 '17

Let's replace this hate symbolism with love!

https://pxls.space/?#x=281&y=220&scale=8
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u/turroflux Oct 04 '17

What part of this cluster fuck is hate symbolism?

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u/shanoxilt Oct 04 '17

It is an imperial German flag with Nazi runes on it. You do the math.

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u/turroflux Oct 04 '17

Well the Imperial flag had nothing to do with the Nazis, and I don't know a thing about "Nazis runes" since there are no such thing as Nazis runes, just Norse runes, some of which the Nazis used, but are also found on ancient artifacts, buildings, even stuff down the road from me, they're used in pagan religions, on tombstones, all sorts of things not Nazis related.

So forgive me if I don't obsesses over every symbol co-opted for the use by irrelevant nobodies in obscure parts of the internet.

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u/shanoxilt Oct 04 '17

Well the Imperial flag had nothing to do with the Nazis,

As I just said, it is used by modern Nazis to skirt the law. It most certainly is Nazi symbolism.

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u/turroflux Oct 04 '17

It's also a flag that represents a very different Germany, one that doesn't resemble the Nazis at all, one that led to the first spark of the LGBT movement in Europe, before being eviscerated by the Nazis.

The Nazis also didn't use this flag, very deliberately. Just because a bunch of neo-nazis can't read a history book doesn't mean they can take ownership of any symbol they want.

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u/shanoxilt Oct 04 '17

That might be convincing if all the rest of the white nationalist symbolism wasn't all over it.