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Trump’s Pick to Lead U.S. Military Has Tattoos Linked to White Supremacists and Nazis (www.democracynow.org)

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[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I'm not calling everyone a Nazi.

I'm saying the guy with tattoos on his chest of symbols that have been associated with Nazis since the late 1930s is 99.99999% likely to be a Nazi and not a long lost member of Prussian nobility.

Pretending that because there's a .0000001% chance that his tattoos aren't Nazi inspired just because Prussia existed, is purposeful pedantry, which IMO is worse than outright racism.

See, you're not stupid. You're the worst kind of person. Your not smart. But your not stupid. You have just enough trivia in your head that you can muddle any argument with pedantry just enough that stupid people might read it and think... "hmmm....maybe it WAS a Prussia tattoo." even though you know damn well that a .0000001% chance is as good as 0%. It's dishonest, it's immoral, and it takes advantage of people who don't have the critical thinking skills to call out your bullshit. You are worse than racists because at least racists are honest about it.