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Graham Platner was a Nazi extermination camp guard who killed Antifascists. (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml to c/progressivepolitics@lemmy.world

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Graham Platner is a Nazi and anyone praising him is a Nazi.

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[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I want to believe that it's all bullshit... But I find it a little hard to believe that he went so long, supposedly with leftist views, and he never found out that his chest tattoo is a Nazi symbol.

And Fetterman provided the blueprint.

Anyway, I hope I'm wrong.

[–] HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Drunkenly picking a tattoo off a wall is a past time for alot of military folk.

Have you not seen starship troopers.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 5 days ago

I don't really care, to be honest. I don't see that as a valid excuse in any way.

[–] Nefara@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Here's his response to the tattoo

https://files.catbox.moe/op9uzi.mp4

Honestly if he went through multiple screenings for hate tattoos and they never caught it I can see where he didn't know. There are a lot of symbols used by white supremacists and I can imagine someone accidentally wearing one if they don't know much about them. There's nothing in his platform that sounds nazi-ish, so I'm willing to believe him.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah but most people who consider themselves socialist, are educated enough to see a skull logo like that and be like "hold up, let me do some googling". Even if it's years after he got it.

[–] Nefara@lemmy.world -1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

He said in the video it was gotten in 2007. Until I see evidence of him saying actual Nazi things like advocating for violence, holocaust denialism, admiration of authoritarianism/dictators, persecution of minorities or ethnicities, and other supremacist nationalist rhetoric I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt.

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Like being a guard at one of the most notorious torture camps in history?

[–] Nefara@lemmy.world -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Source?

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

.....

Are you serious?

[–] Nefara@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

The OP is just a screen shot of text, it has no information on the publication it came from.