I find it odd the amount of people resonding and spewing the whole “Does dressing up as a nazi mean you’re identifying with a nazi? NO!”
Good one, chumps. We so progressed beyond that discussion on the second page. Thanks for adding in some new content.
Then add new content instead of complaining…
Yes I read. Never seen hades ever say anything bad about himself, not gonna hold my breath. I don’t see hades as aggressive, though he does like to say you are wrong a lot. I don’t know if he does have an inferiority complex or not, but it seemed mostly like a try for an insult back at him. You don’t prove your arguement by insulting the other person, so why insult at all?
Sorry Igatona, didn’t remember what you said at the time that I said the same thing you did. However Xwing doesn’t seem to understand that fact. A number of people are not intelligent or lack restraint in showing anger in something that strongly offends them.
What this thread is turning into:
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I’ve said and discussed all I could, so it’s out of my hands now. Haven’t you read the last 3 pages? 
Good question. Retribution is pointless, and I have no reason to insult Hades. On the other hand, if I can convince him that attempting to “preempt my delusions” is an aggressive and nonsensical tactic, it will save me time for replying to more thoughtful posts. He may feel insulted, but that’s not my objective.
"Okay, another example would be civil war recreationists. Are they people who dress up as members of the confederacy want to bring back slavery? Most definatly no, there recreating a battle as a hobby since the civil war interests them even though it killed more americans then any other War this country has been in.
If you dress up as an american GI for a costume party, does that mean you wanna bring back Japanese internment camps for fear of Tojo’s spys? No damnit, your just wearing a costume!
Is because the high school i went to name is “the crusaders” does that mean we want to eventualy go to the holy land to kill musslims while killing hundreds of jews along the way in order to start up a spice trade for the pope? No, no it doesn’t.
Cosplaying as a nazi is so taboo since they lost the war, and we haven’t had time to forget about it or pervert it yet (like the crusades or to a lesser extent the Civil War). No shit your going to piss people off by dressing like one now, and you shouldn’t do it unless you wanna get your ass kicked by someone you offend. But hey, if you wanna dress up like a Nazi, go right ahead, you wont offend me, I’d probly think it was funny since you were doing something so taboo and socialy unaceptable, but thats because i have a sick sence of humor.
What about dressing as a Viet-cong? I did that one year for halloween on state street in madison, but a lot confused me with Raiden from mortal kombat. I sapose if you dress as a nazi on state street people would confuse you with M. Bison from street fighter, or just kick your ass in general."
It doesn’t have to do with the historical realities of whatever you’re dressing up as. It has to do with the meaning associated with each costume or symbol by your culture. In some parts of the south, the Confederacy and Civil War reenacment stand for Southern pride. Dressing up as a GI usually stands for military pride or American pride, and not the more unsavory things that the military or America has done in history. Most people don’t even know what Vietcong look like so its only natural that they would think someone dressed up as one was costumed as an Asian or something from Asian culture.
However, Nazi costumes and symbols, in almost all democratic and industrialized countries, stand for very specific things. The taboos associated with Nazi symbols is very strong. So for someone to intentionally use a Nazi symbol, they are most likely intentionally invoking the ideas, emotions, and sometimes actions attached to that symbol. Now, its perfectly possible for someone to go out dressed as a Nazi simply to try to break the taboos or just to do something outrageous. Maybe that is the case with these people in Japan. But its also possible, and in my opinion more likely, that they are dressed up as Nazis because they are sympathetic to the ideas, emotions, or actions their culture has attached to Nazism.
i tend to look at governments not in terms of their efficiency in industrial and economic regards as you seem to xwing, but rather in terms of how well each person is afforded equal rights and opportunities. in a capitalistic society run by the current people who do so, people are as enslaved to the dollar as they are to the gulag in an authoritarian communist system. that one guys argument about how japan is good because the meiji soldiers in the Last Samurai hollywood action picture is completely invalid because he is holding up feudalism as the standard over fascism, which is no standard, especially in a world which by then included multiple functioning democracies.
of course, this is an pacifist existentialist’s opinion and not the opinion of a power-hungry man claiming to be the supreme being.
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When you actually look at historical uniforms German uniforms from WWII are actually some of the most aesthetically pleasing.
I suppose saying that those responsible for mass genocide had good fashion sense is incredibly offensive but there it is.
Now a question:
If one removes the Nazi Swastika from the uniform does that make it less offensive?
In most cases where I’ve asked this question people have said that without the symbol this is the case while a few have told me that it is still wrong to wear a German uniform…
I ask because I’ve come across many of these threads on Nazi Cosplay as I am planning to do something that is, I guess, kind of similar but in my opinion far removed from the photos in this thread:
Sunako from ‘Wallflower’ episode 3.
Her armband is simply red and has no swastika symbol on it.
I’m also doing her regular outfit and school uniform cosplay.
This one with the chainsaw was the best ‘large-prop weapon’ she has and I feel like entering that contest at the Con I attend.
So is this inappropriate?
I figure that I should put it to public opinion.
Wow 4 year old necropost, and your first post no less. Impressive. You’re lucky I’m not going to ban you.
You don;t have to scare the poor kid, it’s his first post.
