Thousands of purveyors of neo-Nazi tunes just had their day ruined by a crew of enterprising Scandinavian anti-fascists.

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16 points

Weird. Lots of purchasers in Japan. All have Japanese-looking names, but who knows if some of those are real.

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I understand that Japan’s youth displays a lot of Hitler and Nazi stuff. Not that they’re Nazis or haters, they just think it’s funny or something? Kinda like clueless American kids sporting Che Guevera shirts and posters?

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Not really, it’s also seen as a weird thing done by loners to them. One of the most famous animes in recent times, Overlord, features a WW2-based german character with manerisms and speech reminiscent of a SS officer. Every time they’re on screen, the main character nearly dies of embarassment.

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Ah! Maybe not Japan then. I was thinking of this link posted below:

https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/southeast-asia-s-weird-fascination-hitler

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Isn’t Japan extremely socially conservative?

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Japan is conservative in the sense that anyone that isn’t Japanese can go get fucked. How many Japanese neo-nazis are also multilingual to understand the lyrics? This seems less like nazis in Japan and just people who found music they didn’t hate.

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I mean if someone in Japan wanted to look towards their right-leaning history, the Japanese Empire isn’t too far away, and it aligned with Hitler.

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Japan literally has rising fascist movements that want to bring back Imperial Japan, I think it’s fair to say that they know what they’re listening to.

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Somebody needs a little history leason :)

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Some Asian countries also have a weird thing for Hitler.

https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/southeast-asia-s-weird-fascination-hitler

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4 points

Thanks for sharing. Also wtf.

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In many ways yes. Japan has its own brand of racial superiority which is why I just found it a bit weird they’re going for nazi shit. It could also just be that they heard and liked a song, but I kinda doubt that this is the case.

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