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Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner says nobody ever told him the large SS-Totenkopf tattoo he's had on his chest for the last 18 years is a Nazi symbol (www.notus.org)

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[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I too think the picture is uselessly bad, and that's key to another part of the story in the comments. Basically an unnamed associate seemed to be in the same boat of not knowing what it was and the man himself described it by name.

Now he didn't explicitly say it was a Nazi symbol, but he allegedly used the specific German word for it instead of saying it's some skull and crossbones.

[–] Sconrad122@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Per the Jewish Insider citing a anonymous source, so take that for what you will

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I suppose what helps for me is that the tatoo is kind of hard to make out, and he doesn't deny the design intent matches what that is purported to be. I don't know if anyone would have accurately made that connection without help.