Comeback of the Hitler Youth haircut worries Jewish and progressive groups fearing intolerance

[Democrats Ramshield]

My Daily Kos diary:

(Written by an American expat living in the European Union)

I understand the Daily Kos is a serious online community where important progressive issues of the day are discussed. So why am I writing a diary about (yes you guessed it!) hairstyles! Well, quietly some would say insidiously a Nazi haircut known as the Hitler Youth haircut has made a comeback (with 74,000 hits in Google) according to urban legend from German speaking rural Switzerland to becoming a global presence. This has alarmed Jewish groups around the world to the point where they have began voicing concern at the rise of intolerance and anti-semitism that is coming back to haunt Europe in this 100th anniversary year of world war 1, which is 75 years from the end of world war 2. Now recently just last week these fears were realized by the populist Swiss SVP party in an anti-European immigration referendum passed by a majority of Swiss voters.

(Please click on the link below to read the full article. Thank you.)
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/02/18/1278477/-Comeback-of-the-Hitler-Youth-haircut-worries-Jewish-and-progressive-groups-fearing-intolerance?showAll=yes

[Scootaloo]

1. ...I think that's a stretch

But what do I know, I'm just a guy who used to have liberty spikes but never smashed a window who hung out with a bunch of SHARP guys and now lives in a place full of dredlocks and... and weed is the major crop around here, so two out of three ain't bad, I guess.

But really, shaved on the sides and long on top isn't a political statement. Unless Justin Bieber's a Hitlerjugend or something?

[dipsydoodle]

2. Thats an understatement

google images for Hitler youth haircuts for examples. You may find you recognise some well known people.

[Scootaloo]

3. It's the OP's own article, and the only corrobotating source is Arutz Sheva

Which frankly isn't well-known for being a straight source. The AS article itself appears to be trying to force the meme, by pointing out the revival of the cut in Greenwich village, and then reaching way way way out to some antisemitic car vandalism in Brooklyn as "proof" linked only by a single guy - who is unnamed beyond "a Jewish activist" which could be the Arutz Sheva writer of the article himself, with the standards of this rag - who thinks they might be connected.

Arutz Sheva is trying to scare Jews again, is what it looks like ot me.