• itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    10 months ago

    What is that supposed to mean? I assume fight, right?

    It’s a bit close to the f-slur for my tastes

    But in Germany we got NZS BXN, (Nazis boxen, “punch nazis”), which I am partial to

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      10 months ago

      Yes, it’s fight. I didn’t think about the similarity to the slur, thanks for pointing that out.
      I like the ambivalence of “fight nazis”. I feel like it calls for a permanent, strategic resistance to fascism, and also encompasses getting one’s hands dirty. It is also probably better for optics, if it weren’t for what you pointed out.

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      10 months ago

      I saw stickers with BXN a bunch of times (also living in Germany), but I feel like way less than in the past? But also I’m not exactly living in Antifa City, so that could be on me