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It's bad because the SS appropriated it and stripped all other meaning from it. It's like using the number 1488 in a username. It only means one thing, and while it's possible to stumble into it by accident, it remains a white supremacist dogwhistle
So if someone made an account 20 years ago ending with 88, like say if you were born in 1988, should they now delete their account just because someone might misconstrue it as a completely unrelated “dogwhistle”?
There's no misconstruing, 1488 is a nazi dogwhistle whether someone intends it to be or not. If your username includes that number, you should delete that account and make a different one, because people are gonna treat you like a nazi.
Just using 88 is slightly less unacceptable, but the same thing applies; if your username includes that number, people are going to treat you like you're a nazi.
ϟϟhas exactly one meaning in the modern day. You can use those runes without knowing that meaning, but that meaning is still there. It is nazi symbolism whether you intend your use of it to be or not.Yeah, I’ll go tell all my friends and relatives who were born in 1988 and wanted a specific username which were already taken and used (or even if they have a name and surname that’s already taken) and added 88 as an affix since it’s the year they were born in (as people have been doing for decades on the internet) that they are now all Nazis.
Seems pretty obtuse.
Well that's not what I said, is it? My favorite thing about Lemmings is that none of you can read. Do you maybe want to try this one again? I'll give you a free redo
Your words.
I’ll tell them to expect to be treated like Nazis then. Which is absolutely wild, because in their 38 year existence this has never happened. Once.
"[...] that they are all now nazis."
"[...] people are going to treat you like you're a nazi."
Spot the difference. I'll give you a hint: one of them involves being a nazi, and one of them involves being mistaken for a nazi. You managed to misread my comment so badly that you thought I was saying that everyone who has 88 in their username is a nazi, and that's because you can't read.
But even that's totally irrelevant. I specified 1488 in my comment. You know anyone with 1488 in their username who isn't a nazi? Because if you do, I have bad news about your nazi friend.
Even moreso with
ϟϟ. Much like 1488, it only means one thing. The people who use it virtually always use it to mean that one thing. It is very hard to stumble into accidentally using it, and if you do, you should be embarrassed for having stumbled into using nazi symbolism.