Would you be uncomfortable if I wore a swastika armband?
The discomfort is with the authoritarian impulse superseding a person’s rational thought
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what the fuck am i supposed to do about you wearing a swatsika arm band.
bringing up a completely different situation showcases that even you know someone else wearing a mask isn’t that bad, so you have to come up with something on the extreme to inflate it.
No, I’m comparing the semiotics.
If I wear a swastika armband it’s fair to assume I’m indoctrinated into an authoritarian movement. I’ve turned off my critical thinking and will do whatever the authorities tell me to do. That’s scary.
A mask, at this point, means the same thing. Different authorities, yes, but total obedience nonetheless.
These people locked us in our homes. These people got us fired from our jobs for refusing experimental treatment. These people said we deserved to die for not complying.
We have a right to mock their face diapers.
In Russia, propaganda of Nazism and LGBT is prohibited. You will be fined for showing, for example, a tattoo with a swastika or a rainbow flag. You can't wear masks either 🤣 But only during public events. In COVID period, this restriction didn't work.
My point. You can't compare legal and illegal things. Masks are legal, swastikas aren't.
Not wearing a mask was made illegal in many parts of the United States during Covid. And wearing a swastika or a rainbow flag are both legal and protected speech in this country.
Accepting such restrictions on your free speech is your own countries own cultural choice for authoritarianism.
People have every right to wear a mask if they want. And we have every right to mock them.