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CMV: Communist symbols and iconography are just as disgusting as Nazi iconography and symbols.

 Communist symbols & iconography are often considered cool and hip. They are put on handbags, t- shirts, jackets, posters, bumper stickers, etc. Think Che t shirts, mao hand bags, red stars, hammer and sickles, etc.  I think these symbols are just as detestable as a Nazi swastika or SS lightning bolts. All of these symbols represent ideologies, leaders and organizations that have killed tens of millions of people and enslaved millions more.  It should be no more acceptable to wear a Che t shirt than it would be to wear one with the image of Martin Bohrman, or have handbag with a red star on it than it would be to have one with a swastika. Communism has an evil history and displaying it symbols shouldn’t be considered socially acceptable.
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Nazism was a specific ideology pushed by a specific man toward a specific goal (a primary one being kill all Jews).

Communism on its surface is a specific ideology, and was proposed by a specific person originally, but without a specific goal of mass suffering and racial supremacy. It has been spun into that, but if you read up on the original concept that's not what it's about *at all.* When people push for Communism they're pushing for the ideals founded by Marx and other thinkers -- a classless and moneyless society where every one contributes how they can, and receives without worry of being without food or shelter. No power dynamic or anything. So far no countries claiming to be Communist have achieved this (and honestly don't seem to want to).

If we should be rid of iconography and ideology because in the past it's been used/abused to carry out bad things, we should eliminate the Army Star as it stands more for political dick-swinging than homeland defense for decades, we should eliminate the almighty United States Dollar that people rob and kill for, we should eliminate the cross as it stands not just for the sacrifice Jesus made for sinners but also many holy wars and church-backed murders and massacres. Really we shouldn't even celebrate humanity at all as we are our own biggest impediments and the cause of the suffering of ourselves and many other species of life more than any other living thing could ever hope to be. We proudly wave our US flag like it's a bastion of freedom and liberty for all like we hadn't spent several centuries swindling and killing the indigenous folk, treating human beings as literal fucking property (and another century after that as "separate but equal" meaning let's waste money building two of every thing because we can't be touching the same water fountain as no *ethnic slur*), and subjugating and oppressing one another through the rule of law because God forbid a gay couple living their own life which has literally nothing to do with anyone but the two themselves enjoy a bit of equality, and now we're having another political war with trans rights like it's some big goddamned deal and we need to police whether people call themselves a guy or a girl.

Almost every ideology is stained with blood, even the ones (and at times *especially* the ones) that claim to have such virtue and honor. Why then is Communist iconography such a problem in particular to be seen as synonymous with a group that saw racial supremacy as key to their policy?