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• blurb@sh.itjust.works ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Then we should all start hanging swastikas around Auschwitz, shouldn’t we? Because that symbol just means “prosperity and good luck”.

  Fascist apologia at its fucking finest. The wolf emoji is so obviously used in a nationalistic far-right meaning here with all the Turkish flags. Get a clue.

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  • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Feels like the gray wolf isn’t defined enough as a fascist symbol that there’s plenty of latitude for non-fascists to use it. Like if that account is known to use it that way it’s one thing, but otherwise it’s probably just a coincidence. The swastika is the most widely known symbol of hate these days but even now you can go see it on all kinds of temples in Asia, so if even that gets used in a non-nazi way these days surely the gray wolf isn’t only defined as a fascist symbol.

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    • menas@lemmy.wtf ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Here Grey wolf are regularly attacking in the street, sometime with knife, and some murder of exiled people opposed to Erdogan seems to be related to this guys. Just fascists

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    • Gladaed@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Gray Wolf in conjunction with Turkish flag and arms fire is pretty unique. Smells like Nazi.

      You get sensitized if it’s in the news regularly. I would expect it to be less well known oversees.

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    • blurb@sh.itjust.works ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It’s not that that account is known to use it, it is that Turkish ultra-nationalists are known to use it. A lot.

      Now I don’t really care about it being used in that tweet as it is obviously a joke, nor do I believe that everything that makes someone uncomfortable should be censored, but at least one should be honest to themselves to recognize that that symbol has a shitty meaning behind it with the context that is present here.

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      • CaptainBasculin@lemmy.bascul.in ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Grey wolves are considered as a historic symbol by Turks, similar to how a bald eagle is treated by americans or dragons to Chinese people. You can also see ultra-nationalist people of these countries use these symbols a lot, but it doesn’t change the meaning of these symbols to the majority of the country’s population.

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  • JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I don’t remember what the name of the logical fallacy where you conflate a small problem with a big one, but that’s what you’re doing. It’s a poor argument regardless of the context.

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    • QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      iirc it’s the slippery slope fallacy?

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    • blurb@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Straw man.

      That first sentence was directed at your “don’t let Nazis appropriate culture for themselves” statement. Because swastikas are just a nice little cultural symbol, and because they would fit in nicely with the concentration camps just like the grey wolves here with the Turkish flag.

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