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RE: Decentmemes.com Logo Contest

in #decentmemeslogo8 years ago (edited)

You're missing my point. I can do an image search for a cat with a CD spindle cover on its head and find one in a split second; this does not mean that cats commonly wear CD spindle covers on their heads.

I have heard rumors about nazis wearing red laces, but I have never witnessed it myself. For example, a GIS for "red laces charlottesville" turns up no evidence. I'm skeptical that it's a common thing.

I don't think it's very widespread, and I've been wearing red laces for decades because I think it looks cool as an accent color (I also always wear all black and have a red watch band and red hair)—nobody has ever come up to me and treated me as a nazi as a result.

If you can demonstrate to me that this is a consistent thing that nazis actually do on the regular (e.g with 2 or 3 recent news service photographs showing nazis doing this) then I will abandon it, but I'm not giving up a fashion I've worn most of my life simply because oft-repeated urban legend has it that "nazis wear red laces!"

Red laces are cool. Fuck nazis.

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I apologize, but I am surprised that you did not know about this very common Hate Symbol. It dates back to the late 20th century, where it -all- started and is still known for its symbolism. I'm not going to Google it all for you but here are some links. Also, I would appreciate it if you would lower your flag in percentages and not flag the troll-post for the full 100%.

2017:
http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2017/11/dr_martens_portland_billboard.html

2016:
https://www.theodysseyonline.com/psa-skinhead-shoelace-code

2004:
https://www.gq.com/story/uniform-of-white-supremacy

Doc Martens threaded with white or red laces, you knew you'd likely found a white supremacist goon.

Official Hate Symbol:
https://www.adl.org/education/references/hate-symbols/boots-and-laces

Wearing such boots was and is typical of racist and non-racist skinheads alike, but racist skinheads commonly use red- or white-colored shoelaces in their boots to identify themselves as white power skinheads. It is also traditional for them to lace boots with "ladder lacing," so that the laces don't cross each other going up the boot.

To give you an idea how widespread the interest of the term 'red laces' is over the last 5 year:
https://trends.google.nl/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=red%20laces

To give you an idea how widespread the interest of the term 'pepe nazi' is over the last 5 years:
https://trends.google.nl/trends/explore?date=all&q=pepe%20nazi

If it’s very common as you claim, you should be able to link me to 2-3 news service images showing it happening in the last ten years (and not just some random websites repeating urban legends).

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD MAN.
These images are all from the same LAW site.

Screenshot-2018-2-28 Racist Skinhead Glossary(1).png
Screenshot-2018-2-28 Racist Skinhead Glossary.png

Screenshot-2018-2-28 Racist Skinhead Glossary(2).png

Irrefutable evidence. The Hate Speech Database is the only reason Pepe is a "hateful" image. So it is very fitting the red lace Nazi boots are there.

I don't know. I figured I was done beating a dead horse if the ADL was incorrect and twitter and Wikipedia was where we learned from.

And about the no search results about Charlottesville:

https://www.atheistrev.com/2017/08/too-many-nazis-not-enough-reason.html

...with the presence of contemporary neo-Nazis like some of those we saw in Charlottesville.

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