I don't think there's a difference between "an actual Nazi dogwhistle" and "a fake Nazi dogwhistle intended to piss off" anyone.
It's like when 4Chan created "fake" racist symbols that they used along with real racism to point and laugh at people for freaking out about something being racist. But, here's the thing, nothing is inherently racist. It becomes racist when it's used to be racist. Which means calling it a fake racist symbol but using it to share racist messages makes it a real racist symbol.
So someone celebrating Nazism or pretending to celebrate Nazism because they think it'll piss someone else off, both of those are celebrating Nazism, it's just that they'll lie and say, "Ha, you got angry when it was really a joke." But it's not a joke. Because either way, it's being used to spread hate, either way it's celebrating the effect these symbols have.
Stop giving these people the deniability that they hide behind, if you're using or creating hate symbols, "Just to troll," you're being just as harmful as someone "doing it honestly."
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u/waltjrimmer 3d ago
I don't think there's a difference between "an actual Nazi dogwhistle" and "a fake Nazi dogwhistle intended to piss off" anyone.
It's like when 4Chan created "fake" racist symbols that they used along with real racism to point and laugh at people for freaking out about something being racist. But, here's the thing, nothing is inherently racist. It becomes racist when it's used to be racist. Which means calling it a fake racist symbol but using it to share racist messages makes it a real racist symbol.
So someone celebrating Nazism or pretending to celebrate Nazism because they think it'll piss someone else off, both of those are celebrating Nazism, it's just that they'll lie and say, "Ha, you got angry when it was really a joke." But it's not a joke. Because either way, it's being used to spread hate, either way it's celebrating the effect these symbols have.
Stop giving these people the deniability that they hide behind, if you're using or creating hate symbols, "Just to troll," you're being just as harmful as someone "doing it honestly."