So, my thoughts on this whole thing:
Nazi art is a problem, not so much because I don’t like it, but because nazis literally use “it’s just a joke” or “but that’s censorship” as a SHIELD for keeping their toxic beliefs from being mocked for what they are: irrational, bad faith beliefs that have no place in a civilized society.
And then they look at whoever isn’t mocking the art and look at them to recruit.
There was a poster who mentioned that any rational political beliefs should be able to get along, but that’s just it-nazi beliefs are irrational and fundamentally pro-violence in a way that even, say, most communists aren’t.
Even fairly hard-core, extremist communists merely see the bloody revolution they endorse as a necessary evil; to nazis, however, the murdering of “undesireables” is the point.
I have, over the past four years, grown sick and tired of the disproportionately powerful neonazi and neonazi adjacent groups in my country getting away with spewing their crap and getting votes because sites won’t crack down on their blatant lies and blatant foolishness and blatant hatred because “but free speech!”
I once hoped that any nazi would have looked at the show and realized that the show was antithetical to their beliefs, and kept them out of the fandom, but even if they do the former, that hasn’t stopped them from treating the fandom as an unaware recruiting ground.
I even recently had a nazi insult me for pointing out that they were using something that looked suspiciously like nazi recruiting tactics, admit that the tactic exist, but fail to retract their insult.
As for specific enforcement policies-I suspect a blanket ban is needed, if only to make enforcment tractable. In a vacuum, sure, we could just occasionally post nazi themed art as a way of helping us think through a thorny subject, but that ISN”T what actually happens when actual nazis post nazi art. Instead, they use it as a fig leaf to hide their ideologies behind, to look for people who don’t react with disgust, to look for people to recruit.
In conclusion: it’s not that I hate art of nazi ponies in a vacuum, because it’s a subject that does deserve to be remembered, if only to warn future generations about just how awful such philosophies are, but nazi ideology needs to die, and I’m sick of it hiding behind fig leafs like cute ponies to avoid being mocked-or worse, using cute ponies to push itself on the unsuspecting.
I support pulling the fig leafs away from them.
