It's a very simple poll question for you to vote on and debate. Do you believe that the Swastika, the flag of the NSDAP or "Nazi" Party should be banned in the United States (or your own country). The vote is private, you can change your votes if you decide to later and the poll will close after 14 days/two weeks. What do you think on the subject?
Edit: Here is a link to a discussion and poll on banning Communist symbols from 2016. (16 out of 18 votes were against such a ban.)
I’m in two minds about this.
On the one hand I think that freedom of speech is a core human right everyone should have. Also a Nazi flag lets me know who to avoid quite easily lol
On the other. A common tactic of fascists, especially these days, is to hide behind the ideal of free speech, which essentially enables them to radicalise young kids.
So which is better?
I don’t think banning the Nazi flag will accomplish much, because in these times, extremist groups tend to hide behind all sorts of “dog whistles” and double speak to allow for plausible deniability. Allowing themselves to blend in with the “normies.” Who they can radicalise.
Also as has been pointed out already, they’ll just rebrand
We really need to arm zoomers with all sorts of background information about rhetoric, it’s usages, it’s techniques and what a person can infer from it.
I doubt that will happen, just what I’ve observed as a nerd spending too much time online