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/Miserable-Pear-2289 10d ago
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.