Facebook Follies of Friends and Families

[Valmy]

Indeed. I guess you live for hilarious statements like 'Mao was just misunderstood'

I will give you a few seconds so you can recover from your bouts of uncontrollable laughter.

I never said I thought it was funny... I was explaining it to people who don't understand this culture and just attack it out of ignorance. it's dumb and silly, but it's not nazism

Ok but this was not said on the internet. If you take internet stuff off the internet, internet culture does not apply.

And do you know this dude? All we know is he said some pro-nazi shit. But now you 100% know what he is thinking because you are some expert on internet culture.

[CountDeMoney]

You're missing an apostrophe.

Or how about TRUMP HATES LOVE

Lol

[The Minsky Moment]

I never said I thought it was funny... I was explaining it to people who don't understand this culture and just attack it out of ignorance. it's dumb and silly, but it's not nazism

Neither of us have access into the soul of the anonymous dude that trolled Shia LeBeouf so we can't really say for sure.  The more important point is that if the nazi-talking not-nazis are practically indistinguishable from the nazi-talking nazis in terms of what they do and say, does that distinction really matter?

[LaCroix]

Ok but this was not said on the internet. If you take internet stuff off the internet, internet culture does not apply.

And do you know this dude? All we know is he said some pro-nazi shit. But now you 100% know what he is thinking because you are some expert on internet culture.

people bring memes into the real world all the time. it's cringey as hell, but it happens.

no, all we know is he said meme shit. I don't know the history behind "hitler did nothing wrong." I don't know whether that was even a phrase before memers started saying it. but it has been so obviously adopted and transformed by the internet community that when a young guy says a meme phrase it's pretty damn likely he was using it as intended on the internet.

[dps]

The question LaCroix asked wasn't whether or not the guy was really a Nazi;  it was whether or not Garbon thinks the guy was really a Nazi. 

And I don't think he's worth my time replying to.

Probably the best way to look at it.

[LaCroix]

Neither of us have access into the soul of the anonymous dude that trolled Shia LeBeouf so we can't really say for sure.  The more important point is that if the nazi-talking not-nazis are practically indistinguishable from the nazi-talking nazis in terms of what they do and say, does that distinction really matter?

I think it does matter when you start labeling everyone a nazi just because they said "hitler did nothing wrong." 

[LaCroix]

man, with some of the meme culture stuff, it's like watching an alien species try to understand eccentric human activities

[Oexmelin]

. I don't know the history behind "hitler did nothing wrong.

Clearly.

[Valmy]

people bring memes into the real world all the time. it's cringey as hell, but it happens.

Well maybe they shouldn't do that. They might be held accountable for their speech and actions outside of the anonymity of the internet.

Say what you mean and mean what you say. It is called integrity and it is called living in the real world.

[Valmy]

man, with some of the meme culture stuff, it's like watching an alien species try to understand eccentric human activities

Sort of like trying to have a conversation with you.

[The Minsky Moment]

I think it does matter when you start labeling everyone a nazi just because they said "hitler did nothing wrong." 

People who appear and public and say hitler did nothing wrong assume the risk of being labelled a nazi.
If you don't want the label try a different meme.  Cat pictures, say.

[derspiess]

Okay

http://www.catsthatlooklikehitler.com/cgi-bin/seigmiaow.pl

[The Minsky Moment]

On second thought the ChiComs have the right idea.  Ban the internet before it's too late.

[LaCroix]

I think it does matter when you start labeling everyone a nazi just because they said "hitler did nothing wrong." 

People who appear and public and say hitler did nothing wrong assume the risk of being labelled a nazi.
If you don't want the label try a different meme.  Cat pictures, say.

naturally, but that doesn't mean the person is actually a nazi.

[Admiral Yi]

people bring memes into the real world all the time. it's cringey as hell, but it happens.

no, all we know is he said meme shit. I don't know the history behind "hitler did nothing wrong." I don't know whether that was even a phrase before memers started saying it. but it has been so obviously adopted and transformed by the internet community that when a young guy says a meme phrase it's pretty damn likely he was using it as intended on the internet.

How is it intended to be used on the internet?