90% of my college friends had sickle and hammer flags and Che Guevera T Shirts.
Just went for a visit a month ago. The current crop remains the same. They were throwing a party for 100 th birth anniversary of Lenin....
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Which Scenario, if Either, Would Make You Feel More Threatened or Unsafe?
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Just went for a visit a month ago. The current crop remains the same. They were throwing a party for 100 th birth anniversary of Lenin....
I would say that a group of people wearing swastika t-shirts is showing a sign of aggression.
Was that in India, if you don't mind my asking?
I'm wondering because I have come to believe, based on many indicators, that many people in formerly colonized and/or poorer countries may see communism or at least some communist figures (e.g., Guevara) in a vastly different light than many Western countries generally do, perhaps partially due to the history and lingering effects of the Cold War. Even when disapproving of communism, many people in the former may not see it as especially different or much worse than imperialism, exploitation, etc., carried out by capitalist countries as each relates or related to their immediate lives.
Or a sign that they're racist punk posers thinking they're making some sort of statement.
Group-speak serving to advertise and normalize Nazi hate is a threat.
Forgive the comment, but your reaction to that threat suggests to me a worrisome and contemptible lack of knowledge, empathy, or both.
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You'll forgive me if I don't.
The lack of feeling threatened in no way demonstrates or translates to ignorance or empathy.
If you want to know something about me, ask. I take exception to your posting unfounded assumptions about my intelligence and morals values.
It's a good idea to consider all possibilities,
rather than leap with certainty to just one.
A friend has the problem of seeing the
worst in many things, & doesn't allow for
alternatives, eg, Democrats want to destroy
the country, Islam is Satanic, liberalism is
the result of covert Soviet operatives.
This is really harming his mental health.
Since I'm visibly not of European ethnicity, as I said earlier, I think hoping for the best but acting cautiously around Nazis due to having lower expectations of them by default would be a perfectly reasonable approach for protecting myself.
These Nazis showed off Nazi insignia, though, and it seems to me that they were pretty serious:
Unite the Right rally - Wikipedia
People imagine that Nazis, white supremacists, etc
are always in predation mode. I find that most
people have an "off" mode for their radical side.
Even they generally need some peace & quiet.
But if Nazis appeared, I'd be less at risk of triggering
them than you might. So my answer was personal,
ie, how I'd feel about them, not how everyone should.
Geography matters too. In SE MI, you'd look ordinary.
In rural Idaho, it would be different.
They certainly sound like nutjobs, but this is a uniquely US phenomenon.These Nazis showed off Nazi insignia, though, and it seems to me that they were pretty serious:
Unite the Right rally - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
So in Europe I'm not afraid of it.
Fair enough, since your answer was personal.
I wouldn't count on a Nazi's being in "off" mode when I was encountering them, so I would still be cautious.
Yes, this.
Your question was phrased to elicit a personal answer.
Yes. Post #28 just came across to me as more generalized, hence my response.
I have edited the post to which you responded above to add further detail, by the way.
Europe is catching up with USA.
Far-right marches in Europe echo Nazi past
When far-right protesters marched with tiki torches through Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017, chanting — among other hateful messages — “Jews will not replace us,” many Americans were stunned and horrified. It seemed reminiscent of another era, another century. But torchlight marches have...
forward.com
That post wasn't an answer to the question though.
(I'd answered the question earlier.)
I responded to the other poster's suggestion of possibility.
It's generally good to consider all possibilities.
This could include heightened awareness, considering
escape routes, circumspection, etc.