Original comic is the work of Eli Valley, Jewish satirist and comic artist. The original work can be found in his collection of comics, Diaspora Boy: Comics on Crisis in America and Israel
“That means all leftists are terrorists! Prepare the babykillers!”
“But, sir! They’re spread kinda thin between Gaza and Lebanon!”
“Bah! Increase the age of mandatory recruitment!”
Censoring swastikas on Nazi uniforms in a work of satire is basically the exact thing this comic is satirising.
I have now restored the original, unedited comic. Thanks for raising this!
Believe me, the irony isn’t lost on me, but posts on Lemmy.world has to comply with the laws of Germany, where depictions of the Swastika are forbidden. There are exceptions for artistic usage, so it might have been permissable, but I wanted to err on the side of caution. I hope you understand
Hey, German here: in works of arts and satire that are meant to critically examine Nazism instead of glorifying it, swastikas are not forbidden.
E.g. these are totally legal:
On the street you may have the occasional right wing police officer who tries to give you a headache for your patch with a swastika being thrown in the bin but they can’t do anything about it besides getting on your nerves.
Off topic, but I love the top one and the middle bottom. Both are kick ass!
I have seen neither of these outside before. Though “Good night White pride” is often seen in the alternative / left (youth) clubs around town.
Fun fact: The one in the center is pretty similar to the pictogram that is used for communal trash bins (e.g. in parks, public pools, …). The image is often accompanied by the text “halte deine Umwelt sauber” (keep your environment clean). For the sticker / patch they only exchanged the paper with a swastika and kept the rest as it was. Which makes this the most “German” for me.
“It might have been” it would have been, it is a creative work meant explicitly for social commentary.
Do you think I should repost the original comic unaltered?
You can edit this post and put the unaltered image in it instead of the edited.
Oh yes, good point! I will do so.
