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> I actually was told by someone at my last Defcon they were boycotting CCC because they allowed Nazi imagery or something to that effect, which surprisede me given... you know... Germany.

Yeah, there's no way that is true. I could easily see it happen the other way round, some edgy American kid turning up with a swastika shirt, getting thrown out, and throwing a tantrum because muh free speech, when he should be happy he wasn't arrested by the police.

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Maybe I'm conflating being supportive of Trump / Trump hats at cons with literal swastikas.

(The few who donned them at Defcon were not given a warm welcome, to put it mildly.)

I was very jet lagged and had self medicated a lot due to death threats plus being in an abusive living situation (so desparately seeking employment to take me out of precarity) -- I wasn't taking detailed notes.

But it was a prominent person who made the claim, maybe they were inventing a reason to avoid DE, who knows.

There's been some dark things in the community

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