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Flirting with Trump is flirting with Nazism - Response to Andy Yen (CEO of Proton AG) on Reddit 📢📢📢 (lemmy.ml)

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[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 29 points 15 hours ago (4 children)

He's from Asia where the number 8 have a good luck meaning, so is likely is not related to the 88 neo nazis uses.

[–] merde@sh.itjust.works 15 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

same reasoning would justify the use of swastika for an indian living in Germany

good luck working that out

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 15 points 14 hours ago

To be fair, it's easier to be ignorant of neo-Nazi numerology than of their use of the swastika.

[–] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

It absolutely justifies Indians using the swastika. They didn't agree to the nazis stealing their culture, that had existed for thousands of years, to use as their logo. Don't be racist.

[–] merde@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 hours ago

looks like it's even more complicated than i did assume ☞ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika_(Germanic_Iron_Age)

this has nothing to do with race, i was making an analogy. I'm neither in/from Germany, nor in/from India. I just happen to know this:

The German and Austrian postwar criminal code makes the public showing of the swastika, the sig rune, the Celtic cross (specifically the variations used by white power activists), the wolfsangel, the odal rune and the Totenkopf skull illegal, except for certain enumerated exemptions.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 11 points 15 hours ago

Thanks for pointing that out. I didn't know about that good luck meaning.

[–] tburkhol@lemmy.world 6 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I'd buy that if he didn't start his statement with "I live in Switzerland." 8 may be a lucky number for him, but he absolutely knows what 88 means.

[–] ThoGot@lemm.ee 6 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

He can be both from Asia and still live in Switzerland

[–] tburkhol@lemmy.world 5 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

On the flip side, do you think a Swiss person living in Asia would be ignorant that 8 is a lucky number?

[–] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 hours ago

I think all the Westerners in this thread that are shocked that Asia has culture they didn't consult them on would imply yes to your question.

[–] MNByChoice@midwest.social 3 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Sadly, "Asia" doesn't mean "ignorance of Hitler."

#Looking for link to Nazi store in ...

Edit: first link I found. Not endorsement. https://qz.com/928440/asias-disturbing-embrace-of-nazi-chic-is-prompting-a-nonprofit-to-teach-holocaust-history