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[–] [email protected] -3 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (28 children)

Might be an unpopular comment, but I googled the Jerusalem cross and it appears to be more of a religious symbol than anything.

Saying he has tattoos linked with white nationalists is just sensationalism. And it has gotten the exact response in this thread that it wanted.

Edit:

For the pitchfork wielding lemmings, if you search for “Jerusalem cross” on ADL Hate Symbol Searcg, it returns ZERO results.

Hating on this guy because you misinterpreted a tattoo that he has only makes you and people like you look ridiculous. And when the next guy stands up and says actual hateful things, WE won’t have a voice because YOU wasted it on garbage news stories like this one.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (11 children)

Yes and the swastika is the symbol of well-being

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 hours ago (4 children)

Yes, and any cross is a symbol of white nationalism because they were used by the KKK.

Not every symbol used by racist people is a symbol of racism. You gave the one most extreme example where a symbol was co-opted and can never mean anything else again.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

And you gave an example of why dog whistles work, plausible deniability.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

Honest question, are there examples of this symbol being used by white nationalists regularly?

I’ve done some light googling and looked at more photos of white nationalist rallies than I ever want and I didn’t see this symbol in any of them. Even adl.org doesn’t mention this cross.

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