Anonymous asked:
OK but Gaza = Russia. theyinvaded first and kill jews. Also theyre tankies.
It seems that I have been assigned some kind of discount Hasbara operative who has only been trained on discourse posts from twitter liberals. 😔
endonian replied to your post : Why do you think AntiFa are the ‘good guys’?
Antifa doesn’t even exist
Hahaha
then I told them that live in Europe and have been a part of Antifa since the Obama era and don’t really give that much of a shit which terrible president you elected this time, and that antifaschistische aktion was started in the 1930′s in Germany and antifascist action has been operating ever since in one way or the other in at least (that I know of) all of Europe, the US, South America, Turkey, Japan, Australia, Indonesia; and then they blocked me.
Gotta love tumblr liberals I guess.
tropicalsolarpunkandstuff
What are these other ones? *attempts vigilance with cultural magoo eyes*
One is the Meander symbol, used by the Greek neonazi party Golden Dawn:
The other I believe is the Serbian cross, used by Serbian nationalists:
hercegovna
The Serbian cross is not a symbol used by Serbian nationalists it is one of the traditional symbols of Serbia and Serbs that appears everywhere from the flag of Serbia to the flag of the Serbian orthodox church. Comparing it to the Golden Dawn symbol and to the nazi swastika is frankly disgusting
hercegovna
That’s ignoring the fact that the video is from Greece so either the Greek nationalists have started using it for their own purposes (doubtful) or that is not a Serbian cross but rather a poorly drawn tetragrammic cross.
How is it not a Nationalist symbol if it’s the national symbol of Serbia? The video that the gifs are from is a mobilisation video for the pan-balkan anti-nationalist march in Thessaloniki.
hercegovna
Yes a national symbol not a nationalist symbol. The Meander is a nationalist symbol but the greek flag is a national symbol altough it too is used by nationalists. Do you not see the difference? If the serbian cross should be crossed out than so should the croatian chequy, the montenegrin eagle, the macedonian sun… And still to compare any of those symbols to the nazi swastika is disgusting.
Of course the Greek flag is also a Nationalist symbol. National/nationalist symbols are often quite harmless in one context, and a sign of far-right nationalism or fascism in another context, see the Flemish and Dutch lion, the French fleur-de-lys, the turkish moon and star et cetera. Another Serbian person commented on this post earlier complaining about the Serbian cross being graffitied everywhere in Belgrade, do you think that’s not being done by nationalists?
Anyway; This is the final graffiti it was part of, you can follow the link in the original post to try to convince the makers of it that it’s not a nationalist symbol, but I assume they picked the symbols from personal experience on what is being used by nationalists in their area.
karlmarxsbaratiddies
Hello, a Serb checking in!
The Serbian cross isn’t necessarily a sign of nationalism/fascism, unlike, say, the Nazi swastika or the Meander; its primary purpose is to represent Serbian culture, language and the Serbian people as a whole. Conflating it with symbols specifically designed to spread bigotry and hatred is absolutely disgusting.
… With all that said, though, the symbol is nonetheless often used to represent Serbian ultra-nationalism, neo-Nazism and fascism. Like @kropotkindersurprise mentioned, if one sees a graffiti of the Serbian cross in some public area, the chances are it’s being used to represent the vile shit I just mentioned.
Combating nationalism, fascism, xenophobia and capitalism is incredibly important regardless of one’s ethnicity, race or nationality. Never forget that.