• Land_Strider@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    The font resembles it after someone made the connection and put it forward as obvious, but still it is just some extreme connection imo. What are they gonna do next, ban the symbol from history books or popular games like Wolfenstein?

    Also, (deep sigh) what does 88 symbolize? Care to inform the “ignorant”?

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      7 months ago

      8th letter of the alphabet (H), twice => short for “Heil Hitler”. Very common way for nazis to recognize each other

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        7 months ago

        Thank you for the explanation. Unfortunately I can’t reach the link. It seems the generation of the symbolism originates in the extremist groups, so I’m wrong in pointing the connection to the other side.

        However, I’m still strongly against historic revisionism through whitewashing some elements and making others’ appropriate depictions a taboo, whether in books or in cultural elements like games, video, or other things. The more we separate these things as strict black and white things, the more we are numbed to the 3gradual shift in the evil’s direction. Making things taboo and learned underhand via shady gatherings or groups only serves them, does not help rationally put that knowledge into the right mental place.

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        7 months ago

        Damn, I knew some people born in 1988 pick usernames that ends with 88. Does that mean they’re incorrectly identified as Nazi?