I was going to comment this on /c/memes@lemmy.ml, but I decided against it. If you don’t mind, I had written a rant about it before - you can read it here.

To highlight the threat of fascism and supremacy with a stolen symbol is to alienate the rest of the world, who see good in the symbol, and to enable centrist brain-rot. Now, with this pic, you’ve convinced these idiots that the Nazis were the only bad people, that they’re some secret-society villain from G.I. Joe or Marvel’s Captain America. That the legacy of the Allies was clean. Now, it cannot be questioned, because hurr-durr, bad people dead, some collateral damage.

About that collateral damage - no disrespect to the white Jews, I do no wish to invalidate their suffering. But to do this again and again just throws out this message that the other injustices were less worthy of the limelight. Genocides, pillaging, slave trade, rapes, whose count far exceed the acts of cruelty in Nazi Germany - and this is 300 years of oppression combined, hurts the same community, who had to face this.

Since I dont know much about other countries, I’ll talk about India. The Bengal Famine killed 2 million people in just one year. The British Indian Army died fighting for the British, nameless, against an enemy they had never hated. They were convinced that cooperating in this battle would grant them freedom. Then the countess police brutalities. One popular example is the Jallianwala Bach tragedy. Then the Madras famine. Apparently, 165 million people killed in a span of 40 years in India alone. There’s a lot of them, not just from India, but other colonies.

If you want to challenge centrism, start with educating about the legacy of the flags of some of the western countries. Like the Union Jack, or the Old Glory. Let them seethe and cope hard learning about their legacy.

The Nazis of the Third Reich are long dead. The modern neo-nazis get a kick of out people who are offended by the symbol twisted by the Third Reich. Letting the symbols reclaimed will be a kill-joy for these bigots.