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I never met anyone from my grandfather's family that didn't immigrate before WWII because they were Polish jews who disappeared into the war. Except for two great aunts who escaped to Israel. No love for Nazis here. But yes I'm OK with Nazi merch, and glad to live in a country where you can freely sell, buy and wear it, and self identify as someone with a dangerous mind virus that I can beware of. Such symbols are receptors our antibodies can latch onto to signal cognitive lymphocytes to help protect from the memetic payload. You don't remove the danger by removing the symbols.

Here's something worse than Nazi symbols: Nazi values obscured by popular symbols.

palmfacehnanno scorso

I'm not okay with communism or Che Guevara's treatment of political prisoners. That doesn't mean I go around demanding that Che T-shirts be banned. You don't fight illiberal values by becoming illiberal. This distinction is lost on many.

pseudolusanno scorso

"Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. We must therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate intolerance" - Karl Popper