• danc4498@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    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.

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        1 day 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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        1 day ago

        Exactly. I had a guy I worked with that used examples of liberals complaining about the OK symbol as an excuse to ignore every awful thing Trump did and said during his 2016 election and while he was in office.

        I’m not saying he wouldn’t have done that anyway, but we make it so easy for them to ignore us!