Sweetleaf wrote:
EzraS wrote:
Sweetleaf wrote:
ASPartOfMe wrote:
From what I can tell the guy was a drunk as*hole not a Nazi. This seems like a bar room brawl that has been made into an international incident.
As if that somehow excuses his behavior....
I don't think he was saying it was excusable. Just blown out of proportion.
I don't see how, the a**hole decided to parade around like a nazi in Germany...that's not taken lightly there.
Which to me has always been ironic since it was the Germans, not the Eskimos, that brought us all that in the first place. I can
kinda maybe see it being illegal in Poland, France, Netherlands to name just a few victims of the Third Reich but I have to do a major eye roll when the jerries make such an issue out of it within thier own borders.
They're nitpicking over symbolism (e.g. flags, emblems, salutes, etc), speech, and minor characteristics (like nationalism) when the root causes of the rise of Nazism in Germany is what they need to be vigilant about. Read up on some of the issues of Weimar era Germany.
Hint: Hitler didnt rise to power by merely hanging swastikas here and there and talking smack about Jews and communist.
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