Imgurians are an odd bunch but I’m glad they’re anti Nazis.
Comment on Sooo... This is happening on Imgur
EntropyPure@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Somebody was banned for posting the GIF of the Nazi Guy getting knocked out (you know the one).
The community is not having it.
swearengen@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
naught101@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yeah, best politics of any centralised social media by a long shot.
LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
I know it is, technically. I just never group Imgur into social media. Its always been just an image host in my mind.
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
When I last used Imgur about ten years ago, they communicated exclusively in gifs and meme phrases. It’s a bit odd.
sbeak@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
No wonder. Some rich guy must have got very upset. Strange though, plenty of people get punched all the time, and there are plenty more GIFs people getting punched. Banning specifically the Nazi guy getting punched isn’t good PR I think…
DylanMc6@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
gill o’ teens
notreallyhere@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I don’t know the one
Successful_Try543@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
@tanisnikana@lemmy.world was so kind to link the video for us who don’t know.
notreallyhere@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
wow never seen that.
I know its an unpopular opinion, but I don’t agree with punching Nazis. It makes them look like a victim, and violence never works.
I am proud though of the movement against a Nazi resurgence though. The youth deserve more credit than they get for standing up to fascism.
Ghoelian@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
All Nazis deserve to get punched. It makes it look like there’s consequences to their moronic beliefs.
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
ModernRisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
It just amazes me how to doing the Nazi salute, uniforms and speech’s are entirely okay now. However, being against it gets you banned.
The world has gone a full circle and we are back to the days were fascism, hatred and all that is okay. Unfortunately.
DylanMc6@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
we need socialism. we need to organize a lot more than ever. we need to be revolutionary optimists, and NOT give in to counterrevolutionary doom and gloom and defeatism. seriously!
yermaw@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
That video always makes me uncomfortable because I dont know the actual context. Maybe he was in Halloween fancy dress?
Yes fuck nazis, but I dont know in my bones the person deserved it.
Feathercrown@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Go find out then
jol@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
Yeah, I think you should cosplay as a nazi the same way we wear fake guns. You better make it abundantly clear that it’s a toy/costume.
Maestro@fedia.io 3 weeks ago
Someone I know cosplays as a Nazi. He doesn't walk around the streets wraring an armband. He goes in full military gear, riding around on an original WWII german bike with sidecar at WWII historic events. You know, like a cosplayer.
IWW4@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
YOU NEVER COSPLAY AS A NAZI…
neidu3@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Correction in regards to 2: When you’re in the “are we the baddies”-sketch. In fact, I’d say David Mitchell has a free pass, as he always manages to portray the insecurity required to become a nazi.
Best_Jeanist@discuss.online 3 weeks ago
Mr Chaplain also does a great job with it
hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Also, in the one scenario where I would find dressing up as a nazi acceptable, which is if they’re an actor for a movie/show/play that requires nazi characters, they are not going to just put an armband on their everyday modern clothing.
They’ll wear a proper reconstruction of an actual nazi uniform, and they’re not going to just walk around in that costume, they’re going to be on or around a set, which also gives passerbys the context clues needed to understand that they’re just an actor, thus saving themselves from being punched.
RaoulDuke25@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Unless you’re cosplaying a dead Nazi
yermaw@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I think it more reminds me how easily influenced we can be. “Go find out” is great, but its not possible to research everything you see. Even if I did I’d only find other people talking about the video and would have no real way of discerning who actually knows what theyre talking about and who’s just making credible sounding shit up.
Do you guys not feel that worry somewhere in your mind when you see things like this?
Feathercrown@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I mean, it’s not like me enjoying the video is going to affect the guy who got punched. I think it’s good that as a society we support videos that appear to show Nazi cosplayers being punched and don’t give them the benefit of the doubt. If I were actually there IRL and able to affect the outcome, I would also be able to ask for the necessary information to determine what to do.
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Fun fact I have a swedish tankers trench coat from 1940 and a Swiss helmet from 1942 when I wear them together it basically looks like legally distinct werhmacht. I can pull the samething with an American armor school long coat and a Yugoslav helmet for the Soviet equivalent.
It’s technically not Nazi apparel. It annoys my friends though.
quick_snail@feddit.nl 3 weeks ago
So we’re not allowed to make movies that show the horrific history of Nazi Germany?
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
The number of people willing to provide cover, and give the benefit of the doubt to people dressing as, and behaving like Nazis is too damn high. I’m seeing it everywhere on here lately.
“I don’t know anything about the thing you guys are talking about, but what if he was dressed like that because he’s an actor in a movie?”
Really?
angrystego@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You’re allowed, but surely you’d be aware enough not to walk in your costume outside the set. The same goes for theatre or anything. An actor who thinks it’s a good idea to walk outside in a nazi costume has it coming, and that’s a good thing.
Feathercrown@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
IWW4@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Halloween fancy dress?
Dude… give me a break.
yermaw@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Or a movie prop. Or a weird stag night. Or a mentally ill person unaware of the severity of the joke. Or theres a gunman behind the camera making him put the armband on. Or digitally altered before release. Or the list goes on.
What you think you see “Nazi scum punished”
What you actually saw “man gets punched”
Im lowkey shook fr how easily #2 becomes #1. Again, I’d like to point out I’m all for nazis getting fucked up.
IWW4@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
If it is a movie prop than the person stays on the lot. There is no stag night justification, mental illness ok…
But you are reaching.
There are certain things you never choose to do. Pretending to be be a Nazi is one of them.
rumba@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Did you just really ignore monuments comment two above?
I guess we know where your sympathies land
Monument@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
The sources for this video indicate the person wearing the armband:
- Harassed a black man on a bus.
- Walked around downtown Seattle for an hour dressed that way.
- Had several verbal confrontations with passerby who commented on his clothing.
Source 1
- Several 911 calls were placed about this man attempting to instigate fights.
- The man declined to file a police report after the police did appear.
Source 2
For at least an hour at any point leading up to this, the person wearing the armband could have taken it off and stopped interacting with others. To my knowledge, the person who was punched has never spoken to media to explain why they were dressed as such, despite the massive internet fame of the video.
Do you still feel uncomfortable? Do you know in your bones if the person deserved it?
yermaw@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
In this specific case im happy enough thanks for that. Thats actually cheered me up a little.
I’m not sure if I’ll ever truly get there, think I’ll be a little more comfortable joining the mob without context next time. This is the most consistent engagement I’ve ever had on this site and I think ive learned a thing or two here.
Monument@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
Well, don’t join the mob blindly. Do your own research. The above information was gathered from one internet search using the available context clues from this post.
It did not take very long and was easy.
Diddlydee@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
Fancy dress? That’s a stretch. Usually in fancy dress you’re imitating someone. Who is he meant to be? Just a generic Nazi.
rumba@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Consider:
Someone is getting knocked the F out on camera.
There is a crowd of people
No one is stopping or diffusing the situation
No one is stopping over the check on the fallen
Then calculate it appears to be a guy wearing a nazi arm band
then consider that it would be the shittiest idea for a halloween costume south of blackface and even wearing nazi garb would likely get you a rightful ass-kicking.
There’s no math there that makes that even slightly questionable.
porcoesphino@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
Yeah, his hand coming up in a way that could be “this isn’t what you think” doesn’t help. The description makes the situation sound very different though and there’s not much of an excuse for the armband right now. But yeah, not a fan of the gif now I’ve seen it
sauerkrautsaul@lemmus.org 3 weeks ago
this is clipped. in a longer version he’s talking shit a second before he says “wait hold on now”
porcoesphino@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
Oh yeah, I can get behind this gif a lot more
Dogiedog64@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Bait used to be believable SMH my head…
quick_snail@feddit.nl 3 weeks ago
You mean Charlie Kirk getting shot in the neck?
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
DylanMc6@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
a lot of people, regardless of what they think of charlie kirk, got traumatized because it is very graphic. i think some people encouraged playing tetris as a way to get your mind off that video. is it insensitive to tell people to play tetris after watching that graphic video?
quick_snail@feddit.nl 3 weeks ago
Sure, but zoom out. I think the vast majority of people watched it over-and-over in sheer glee.
And later slept much better, knowing that a horrible person spreading hate was no longer
DylanMc6@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
“zoom out”?
DylanMc6@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
imgbox is the way to go
dumbass@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
The one that gets its tooth knocked out?
Man I love that clip, you can live vicariously through it for a second.
zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Yeah and the community does not understand what it means to protect your audience from certain content. Violence is violence. At this point it does not matter who is who. But the community just had too much lead in the water and is unable to form their own thoughts, thus just follow the other sheep.
uncouple9831@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Hush nazi
zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
You’d be the first to cry when Imgur had to shut down because of problematic content on it. And please, drink less of that tap water.
uncouple9831@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
No, I don’t go on imgur. And uh are you literally going for a doctor strangelove insult there?
tanisnikana@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Every time I walk past that stretch near Pike and 3rd in Seattle, right over that bit of concrete where the nazi got laid the fuck out, I punch the air. Every time.
RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Damn, that’s where it happened?? I fucking bike right past that!!
tanisnikana@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
bet.com/…/seattle-man-records-video-of-a-neo-nazi…
Yeah, check the tiles, this is just right outside of one of the entrances to Westlake TC.
TheFermentalist@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
I fucken love that GIF
RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Hell yeah, awesome 😂
PapaStevesy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
This story just gets better.
sbeak@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Woah, wearing the armband and everything. And apparently he was harassing some guy? No wonder he got punched right in the face.
Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
That site needs to pick a font and stick with it.
Cethin@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Someone needs to make a monument, like that woman hitting the nazi with her purse. Maybe, until then, some graffiti to make the location to people passing by? Or maybe some other cheap temporary display.