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From  Eyelyn Tully Costa 

An EXCELLENT way to figure out if you’re on the right side or wrong side. Huge numbers of our population, good people on both sides, believe in a completely alternate reality.  Alternate facts as it were.  But just as intensely as I believe they are deluded, they think I am the one who is deluded.  Maybe I am.  So how can I be confident in my perception?  It can be quite difficult.  

But I have found that in times of confusion, particularly when emotions are running high and creating tunnel vision, the presence of Nazis can be an extremely helpful indicator.  

If I am attending a local demonstration or event and I see Nazis…neo-Nazis, miscellaneous-Nazis or the latest-whatever-uber-mythology-Nazis, I figure out which side they are on.  And if they are on my side of the demonstration?  I am on the wrong side.  

It is tough to argue moral equivalence when I am standing next to a Nazi.   Look to my right.  Is there a guy wearing a 6MWE (6 million wasn’t enough) t-shirt?  I am on the wrong side.  Look to my left.  If that guy is wearing a Camp Auschwitz t-shirt?  Wrong side.   Speakers referring to things Hitler got right?  Wrong side.

I can always, always, always, rely on the presence of Nazis [or Confederate flags] as a guiding light through a fog of disinformation. Some things are relative, but evil and good are absolute.