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New guideline: Posts linking to stories with Nazi imagery need to be marked NSFW; please link to a source without such images if at all possible (it usually is) (beehaw.org)

submitted 15 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) by Powderhorn@beehaw.org to c/usnews@beehaw.org

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Thankfully, this hasn't come up yet. This march in Ohio is probably going to be the smallest (10 people) but certainly won't be the last.

As we won't see the sort of blowback we did with Charlottesville this time around given the wildly different political landscape, this isn't a one-off.

After discussing with other site leaders, this feels like the best compromise. Such art can be triggering for some, but open Nazism in the U.S. can't just be ignored, and photos can be of more utility than text in some cases.

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[–] Didros@beehaw.org 3 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Things like this are very interesting to me, considering a lot of what became 'Nazi rhetoric' was learned from the United States. We did eugenics, concentration camps, the red scare, defining groups as inferior, fostering anti-other hate mobs with public lynchings and the KKK, as well as invading countless countries killing leaders and civilians alike.

Should probably mark posts that show American symbols as NSFW as well.