• DaMummy@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    I also wanted to buy an Iron Cross necklace, but my mother wouldn’t let me. I didn’t know what it meant… Cause I was like 10 at the time. How old was he to not know what a Totenkopf is?

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      5 months ago

      I literally just learned what it is. I would have thought it was random pirate or metal shit

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        5 months ago

        OK, then look at it this way. Would you have gotten a tattoo on your chest of something you didn’t know the meaning of?

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          I wouldn’t, but then again I’m not a drunk Marine.

          Like the other user above, I’ve also never heard of the Totenkopf and I don’t recognize the emblem. Looks like any other skull and crossbones to me. I’m not saying it isn’t a harmful symbol, but I can understand how a lot of people would be totally ignorant to its history like I am.

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            Yeah, I’m more inclined to believe that he was drunk, and a foreigner wasn’t a fan of American Marines in his country, and branded him with a well known nazi symbol on his chest just to fuck with him.

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      I was seriously looking at a tattoo, but dropped the idea after running it by a friend who was more aware of the problematic implications than I was at the time.

      It’s not hard to make a mistake. And it might be hard to recall that, at least in America prior to 2016, we didn’t generally take (neo)Nazism and unironic fascism seriously.

      Anyway, as someone else said, he shows growth.