Fox News: "Michigan-protesters weren't Nazis. They waved the swastika-flags ironically."

[DetlefK]

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When they marched in Charlottesville, waving Nazi-swastikas and shouting Third Reich slogans, they were very fine people upset over a statue.

When they marched in the Union-state Michigan, waving Confederacy-flags and Nazi-swastikas, they were displaying them ironically.





What does a white man have to do in the US to be considered a Nazi????

[eShirl]

1. They just happened to have all this Nazi paraphernalia ready to go, in the middle of a pandemic.

[yardwork]

15. What, doesn't everybody have a museum about Nazis in their garage?

[superpatriotman]

17. Honey, get the Nazi flag out of storage

I need to go be ironic

[kacekwl]

21. HA HA HA...

Hilarious.

[roamer65]

2. I hate Michigan Nazis.

[Saboburns]

18. This reply is under rated!

Thank you my friend. I needed that laugh.

[roamer65]

22. No problem.

[Initech]

29. I'll get those Blues Brothers if it's the last thing I do!!

[roamer65]

30. ..

This mall has EVERYTHING.

[Cha]

3. fox screws with their damn heads... enabling "nazis"

who would have guessed?!

[Midnight Writer]

4. And were they waving the Confederate Flag ironically?

This is the same type that were at Charloteville.

[Marcuse]

5. The racists think Trump is a racist.

[Skittles]

6. the IRONY

TRUMP HUMPERS talking about Whitmer being FASCIST

[Midnightwalk]

7. Fox news says infinity plus one

They are criticizing the governor for calling out idiots waving swastikas. Fox doesn’t understand irony.

[rampartc]

8. maybe instead of a medal of freedom, limbaugh has an "ironiic cross"

the "ironic cross?"

[bucolic_frolic]

9. Because of WWII and its consequeces, and the atrocities, and the personalities

the true nature of everyday Nazism was not in my view adequately defined. It was foremost a system of dominance and exploitation, plunder, taking from others. Historians still struggle with it, they were busy with its consequences. Nazi leaders used their power and the State to grab resources, "collect" art, establish bank accounts, buy castles and houses for their official duties and retreats. Uniformity, fear, ideology, weaponry were their tools. Violence was their means. It was a tight system of control.

But the states are not using Nazism to protect public health. That is a perversion of logic, and fact. The states use no violence, there is no plunder, no extra-legal dominance. There is order for the public good. These protestors act like Nazis for their private economic interests. Sure they want their businesses open. We all do, Americans love to consume, when it's safe to interact.

Protestors bring the second wave upon themselves. Enjoy.

[Kaiserguy]

10. "What does a white man have to do to considerer a Nazi"

That's easy when it comes to Fox. Be a member of the Democratic Party and be working to protect the public.

[mitch96]

11. Yup, same as in the Nurenberg rallys of the thirtys...... just happened to show up

[SammyWinstonJack]

13. That photo is distributing.

[SWBTATTReg]

12. Sure. Faux News is the authorative source of valid news anywhere! I did NAZI see this coming...

[Chainfire]

14. Gobbles would be so proud

of Fox News, the American Völkischer Beobachter.

Fox news motto should be, " No lie too big."

[liberalmuse]

16. I'm not a Nazi, but...

I purchased a Nazi flag to ironically wave it around in public. Oops! That sounds ridiculous, and we know a large number of conservatives just don’t get “irony’. They could save money on Nazi and Conderate flags, which aren’t cheap and just make a white flag out of an old sheet tied to a stick. Same thing

[UncleNoel]

19. Obviouly, the Nazi salute is also ironic!

[tanyev]

20. Were they ironically standing close together? 'Cause coronavirus don't care.

[Alex4Martinez]

23. So, this must be SNL or Comedy Central?

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Oh how I miss the cable comedies.

J/K

Truth is stranger than parody.

[BGBD]

24. Nazis

are well known for their sense of irony....

[ooky]

25. If it walks like a Nazi and talks like a Nazi it's probably a Nazi.

That's your new Republican folks. A Nazi!

[UTUSN]

26. GUTFELD is the more dangerous of the Fauxers for being adept with mind games.

[fishwax]

27. granted I haven't seen all the pictures, but the ones I saw were calling Whitmer a nazi

which is thoroughly idiotic, full stop.

There were some pictures circulating purporting to be of people at the rally carrying Nazi flags, but apparently they were from an earlier protest of a Sanders speech in Idaho and/or a Michigan nazi protest of the pride parade in Detroit last year.

Here's the one I saw. It's not an indication that the carrier is a nazi, but it's pretty clear evidence she's a fool:

[Yavin4]

28. Fox News normalizes the far right in an attempt to align them with Republicans

Again, more examples of normalizing the extreme Republican party.