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Further: the employee was seen to be mischaracterising the protestors/rioters (take your pic) as nazis.

The claims 'there were literal nazi flags' (see https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/8a1wytwIU2Ic52sok2ly14RUQNM=...) seem to based on the very broad assumption that Confederate, Kekistan, upside down US flags, 'release the kraken' etc flags are Nazis.

See https://qz.com/1953366/decoding-the-pro-trump-insurrectionis... for an example.

Update: this comment has been been flagged, but let me point out:

1. The comment was 'there were literal nazi flags'. We are still at 0 nazi flags.

2. The 'six million' shirt pointed out by Griffinsauce below wasn't from the Capitol: https://forward.com/fast-forward/461761/fact-check-the-6-mil...

The guy in the Auschwitz hoodie is a nazi and obviously an even bigger moron than the other rioters but maybe we'd be able to find out more about actual extremists if we didn't label everything we don't like as extremist?

There is lots of evidence that there were nazis among the insurrectionists. Shirts with references to Aushwitch, "six million wasn't enough" etc.

How much research have you done before reaching your very definitive and incorrect conclusion?

We don't have to resort to technicalities. This attack was a reactionary populist movement, led by white supremacist groups (eg the poor boys). It is a stretch to label the whole thing "Nazi", but only slightly.

Republicans are currently faced with a choice - conservatism xor this new reactionary populism. If you're an actual conservative and don't appreciate your own voice being pigeonholed with the neo-Naziism, then work to cut the cancer out of your party.

The "'six million wasn't enough' at the Capitol" was a hoax. See the update above. How much research did you do?

Witnesses stated they saw it. The picture being circulated is an example. Some people ran with that being a shot from there.

So "hoax"? Not quite, but granted, there is no evidence as of yet.

Okay so we're down to several references to Aushwitch then. Plus the fact that the groups involved have a well documented connection.

No. Someone confirmed the picture as being from a different event. That the '6 million' shirt was at the Capitol is proven false.

We're down to one Auschwitz reference. One too many. But still nothing like 'actual Nazi flags'.

Again: how much research did you do?

Here's a literal Nazi rioter. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/man-camp-auschwitz-shir...

Yep, acknowledged. That man is a nazi.

You can be both of these things. The guy in the Camp Auschwitz hoodie can be a nazi and a protestor!

I don't know if there were literal nazi flags, but there certainly were literal nazi clothes, e.g. https://images.jpost.com/image/upload/f_auto,fl_lossy/t_JD_A...

How is that inappropriate? The employee should have stayed separated.

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