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Saw a nazi today (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by abbotsbury@lemmy.world to c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world

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For explanation: Boogaloo movement, "Neo-Nazis use the number 88 as an abbreviation for the Nazi salute Heil Hitler.[11] The letter H is eighth in the alphabet, whereby 88 becomes HH.[12] "

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[–] CraigeryTheKid@lemm.ee 0 points 5 months ago (3 children)

So, funny story, as a kid my favorite number was 8, had a few reasons that matched 8.

So I always used it in names and such. But, often it wasnt unique, so I used 88 instead. Emails, account names, even video game characters have 88 in them to this day.

... Am I accidentally a Nazi?

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

My wife’s pet name is Boog, and I’m determined not to let Nazis take it away.

[–] circasurvivor@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago

I had a cat growing up named Boog... named after John "Boog" Powell... the baseball player, not Nazis.

[–] Ookami38@sh.itjust.works 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

No. 88 is just a number. It can be used as a dog whistle, but it can also be used, for instance, to describe a quantity equidistant between 87 and 89. Numbers and symbols don't make a Nazi, actions and rhetoric do.

I love Norse symbology. I'm not going to stop loving it because some fuckbrains use it to spread hate. Fuck that.

[–] FluorideMind@lemmy.world -1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Based. Same goes for the boogaloo "movement" just because there are Nazis in it doesn't mean it's a primaryily Nazi community.

[–] decivex@yiffit.net 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

No, but it is primarily a white supremacists movement and the '88' on the license plate kinda takes away all doubt.

[–] FluorideMind@lemmy.world -1 points 5 months ago

Bro. Read the comment. There's shitheads in every community. Boogaloo is about preparing for what we see as the inevitable second civil war. Not anyone's skin color.

[–] palordrolap@kbin.run 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Born in 1988? Lots of folks born that year decided to have those two digits in their first Internet usernames as well. A few of those will still be in use, no doubt, so you're not alone. (Me? No, I'm older.)

In your shoes, I'd maybe think about changing things around, especially the easy ones, but you're not me, nor I you.

[–] PanoptiDon@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

The way it was explained to me is that H is the 8th letter of the alphabet, HH stands for Hile Hitler