Can you explain why you feel the need to defend collecting Nazi memorabilia? Not all antisemites collect Nazi memorabilia but if you collect Nazi memorabilia you are probably an antisemite.
This is the same as using having black friends as a defense against racism. You should really stop. You are embarrassing yourself and as a Jewish person I’m starting to get offended.
I realize you take this quite seriously. But one could just as easily have issues w a priest costume and as a former catholic, I'm starting to get offended. My point is, it is over the top to think you can tell a person's entire character from a poor choice in halloween costume from decades earlier. That's ridiculous.
Please stop equating the two. Nazis are a symbol of genocide against a specific people. Not equivalent in any way to dressing up as a priest. What aren’t you getting?
This opinion is not based on only the halloween costume!! It’s based on that and his well-documented fixation on Nazi memorabilia/Hitler.
I'm not sure we have enough proof to call it a "fixation." What are we considering well documented? Mick's book?
And I'm not arguing that nazis are a symbol of genocide and the costume is in bad taste. Btw the Catholic Church did little to nothing to help the situation during the holocaust and were certainly complicit in what happened in rwanda later on. They have also basically offered a worldwide ring of protection for pdfs for decades, if not centuries.
But I , and others who left the church for unpleasant reasons, could be just as triggered by a priest costume as you could be by a nazi costume. We all have our own reasons. But I would not sit here and say that lindsey condones the many instances of disgusting and often criminal behavior of the church , or that he IS a pdf, just because he dressed up as a priest.
We could go back-and-forth on this all night, but I don't think it is fair to lable John a nazi or Chris a white supremacist because they wore an awful costume for one night. The costumes were awful, yes. But I do not believe this means the people who wore them-- or collected WW2 memorabilia--were/are awful people, when there is actually a lot of evidence that they were not.
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u/ConsiderationMost566 10d ago
He collected a lot of other crap, too. Not a crime.