Trolls/kids will always go for the taboo, regardless of their actual beliefs... simply because they're taboos. Maybe if we stopped recoiling in fear everytime some idiot draws a swastika they'd stop doing it.
Actually, that's exactly what will happen in something like 20 years. Ancient history stops being taboo.
I even sometimes find it funny (especially when people draw the arms wrong); but maybe for others it really is just a way to spread their ugly hatred, and that's not at all what I'm trying to defend.
I think the problem with this argument is that we're both actually right, but only in certain situations.
Kids do stupid stuff ( yes, even after they've been told not to; maybe especially so when they are expressly forbidden ). This is not news. What is interesting, however, is that near constant push to effectively shut down the entire conversation around holocaust and Israel by simply crying anti-semitism. That is a weak cry. And it is growing weaker every time it is used on non anti-semitic stuff. It is like crying wolf and being surprised no one listens when it actually comes.
You are right about normalization though. People hardly blink an eye since Golan heights annexation is now a morally acceptable land acquisition[1]. Crimea still is not. Go figure.
So yeah. Lets talk about kids drawing swastikas, because that is definitely, totally, the crux of the issue.
[0] https://www.foxnews.com/world/poland-ambassador-israel-tel-a... [1] https://thefederalist.com/2019/04/16/moral-case-israel-annex...
[edit]removed when : replaced with since
The majority of the article is about the museum exhibit, in any case.
I'm not sure what you mean when you talk about people trying to "shut down" the conversation around the Holocaust. Are you some kind of Holocaust revisionist?
How are we supposed to even begin to talk when you open with that? Intellectually, it is not an argument. But maybe that is not what you are interested in.
Note that you have not addressed previous point, which boils down to: kids are kids. Get over it.
"Get over it" is not really a point so much as a tone-deaf injunction. If ignoring bigotry made it go away, Jews would be the first people calling for that course of action.
Unfortunately, teens are not always as innocent about Nazism and the symbolism of the swastika as you might wish to think: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-48672929