@cakelover This is in Sweden, laws vary across Europe. Wearing or displaying the swastika or other nazi symbols in public is considered hatespeech and is a punishable offence. You don't get arrested but you can get a fine, though it's mostly in combination with other crimes.
But it depends on the context. As an example, the demonstrators outside Disney land Florida wearing swastikas would be charged with unlawful gathering and hate speech.
Mostly, our nazis avoid those symbols and opt for more obscure nazi iconography such as the Tyr rune.
I'm fairly confident, being British, that Sweden was officially neutral, and that a little under half a million British men, women, and children (including those from the Crown Colonies) died in the second world war. The war was fought because the nazis invaded, enslaved, and killed much of Europe and some of Africa, not because they pulled a marketing stunt in bad taste. Wearing such costumes may be insensitive, but it is not violence. Ironically, using government violence against non-violent people is one definition of fascism, so I suggest you don't encourage it
We where "un-aligned" which isn't the same, actually way worse because a lot of our leadership was on the side of the Nazis. We even built concentration camps with forced labour and imprisoned people for being socialists, union leaders and ethnic minorities. We kept records of Jews in the country expecting to hand everything over to the Nazis when they won.
WWII wasn't fought for the right of minorities, it was because fascism got to uppity and started invading neighbouring countries.
When I say "we" I don't mean my nation, I mean Europe. I include myself because I'm glad that we won because that allowed democracy and human rights to become the basis for modern values.
Around here the people who wear nazi uniforms aren't being non-violent, they are very much violent.
The systematic racism of Nazism isn't some political ideology among others. It is an ideology who's goal is the end of democracy and human rights, and the murder and enslavement of all people. That's not non-violent. That's not compatible with democracy.
Nazis are bad. We had a war about it. They lost.
But it depends on the context. As an example, the demonstrators outside Disney land Florida wearing swastikas would be charged with unlawful gathering and hate speech.
Mostly, our nazis avoid those symbols and opt for more obscure nazi iconography such as the Tyr rune.
WWII wasn't fought for the right of minorities, it was because fascism got to uppity and started invading neighbouring countries.
When I say "we" I don't mean my nation, I mean Europe. I include myself because I'm glad that we won because that allowed democracy and human rights to become the basis for modern values.
The systematic racism of Nazism isn't some political ideology among others. It is an ideology who's goal is the end of democracy and human rights, and the murder and enslavement of all people. That's not non-violent. That's not compatible with democracy.
Nazis are bad. We had a war about it. They lost.