No #Racism in our great country.
The Fox News host who President-elect Donald Trump just announced would be his nominee for secretary of defense was not allowed to work security at President Joe Biden’s 2021 inauguration, supposedly because of a tattoo that military higher-ups believed might have been an extremist symbol.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/pete-hegseth-biden-inauguration-tattoo_n_67351473e4b0b5b61d3f891f
@nursefrombirth As a Christian I might have given him early tattoos but Deus Vult is white supremacist.
@nursefrombirth i.e. I wouldn't automatically make claims about cross tattoo or celtic tattoos because I know people that have them who do not support extremists. But Deus Vult is the white supremacists who hate muslims, jews, gays, poc.
@AnnetteTRemain School me! I don't know much about extremist symbols, seems I need to learn now. 🤔
@nursefrombirth Which part the Deus Vult or the celtic/nordic? Multiple articles can be found on deus vult. They were chanting it in Charlottesville. A lot of the white nationalist crusader stuff got popular with online gang forums where they infect our young. https://www.history.com/news/how-hate-groups-are-hijacking-medieval-symbols-while-ignoring-the-facts-behind-them
@AnnetteTRemain Good article. The Deus Vult is what I'm not familiar with.
@nursefrombirth Some of the trolls I messed with on X were Deus Vult. These guys are very nazi, i.e. they can hint Hitler wasn't wrong, but they are coy nazi types like Spencer. They nest most of it in western civilization romance where one can draw conclusion we are better without usually outright saying it. It's a way to get people to accept white nationalism without knowing they are. I don't know how many people know what actual nazi speech sounds like.
@nursefrombirth I will try to say this carefully to avoid someone taking it the wrong way. The "best" recruitors for nazis and klan do not "sound" nazi or klan. If one listens to many David Duke or Richard Spencer speeches or even early Hitler the focus is on romanticism of the past and how we can be so much better than what we are. It's a sirens song. If you are familiar with sirens they used to lure men to their deaths.
@AnnetteTRemain @nursefrombirth
Annette, I know exactly what you mean by this. I have heard that siren's song myself. They don't sound hateful at first and to the casual listener, they start out sounding rational.
(I'm half deaf and kind of weird, though.)
That's the scary thing about those songs, though.
They start out sounding harmless, and they come from the mouths of people who call themselves geniuses and protectors.
Next thing you know, there's a holocaust or lynching.
@AnnetteTRemain @nursefrombirth
Although I should also add I am not an expert on extremist tattoos or symbolism.
But this guy sounds like extremely bad news. 😟
@janallmac ADL and SPLC have hate symbols. I used to look them up a lot on X. https://www.adl.org/resources/hate-symbols/search @nursefrombirth
@AnnetteTRemain @janallmac Thank you. Whew, a lot to learn and yes, we should all be aware of what these things mean.