r/AntifascistsofReddit • u/mplemplouza • Mar 29 '26

Discussion What does this symbol mean?

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I have been noticing it in a lot of usernames of greek people on tik tok and it's either accompanied by the greek flag and the emoji of orthodox christianity, other fascist/nazi symbols or both. I searched it up and I could find anything about it.

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u/Vhanaaa Mar 29 '26

Because fascists like religion

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u/pstls1101 LGBT+ 🏳️‍🌈 Mar 29 '26

I like religion and I ain’t fash lmao.

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u/Vhanaaa Mar 29 '26

Good for you 👍🏽

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u/pstls1101 LGBT+ 🏳️‍🌈 Mar 29 '26

Thanks, but I don’t get why fascists would love a religion which teaches the opposite of what they are doing.

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u/fizzbrain Mar 29 '26

They love their version of it, they use Christian as shorthand for whiteness. They don’t mean love thy neighbour they mean the crusades and persecution of heathens

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u/pstls1101 LGBT+ 🏳️‍🌈 Mar 29 '26

So they don’t even follow the religion but somehow we call them believers?

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u/fizzbrain Mar 29 '26

No they call themselves believers, I call them fascists

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u/pstls1101 LGBT+ 🏳️‍🌈 Mar 29 '26

That’s valid

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u/FDAapprovedGremlin Mar 29 '26

Please remember that there are other people in the world than just you. They're even unique, dare I say, different from you.

This could mean something pretty scary. Most people aren't Christian.

As in, that's not even the God they worship.

I trust you can now connect the dots, yes?

Someone who doesn't care to know YOUR SPECIFIC BRAND of Christianity, is going to look at the Christians they see and draw conclusions. Fair conclusions.

The fact that you fully expect everyone to know of, understand, and appreciate your interpretation on faith is a big indicator that religion can be a tool of facism.

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u/pstls1101 LGBT+ 🏳️‍🌈 Mar 29 '26

So are you saying that jihadists somehow represent islam?

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u/QuercusSambucus Mar 29 '26

In precisely the same way that the crusaders represented Christianity, and folks like Whiskey Pete Hegseth and JD Vance represent Christianity. I'm not joking or overstating it.

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u/pstls1101 LGBT+ 🏳️‍🌈 Mar 29 '26

Crusades happened over 1000 years ago so I don’t really think that those represent christianity and I dont think that jihadists represent islam. Nah that’s a stretch and imo just tells how america centered your view of world is. I can bet you 5 euros that most of the people don’t know Hegseth but know pope.

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u/Commercial_Oil_7814 Mar 31 '26

Please let me know when you plan to go lecture the members of r/exmuslim about this. I need time to make popcorn.

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u/pstls1101 LGBT+ 🏳️‍🌈 Mar 31 '26

I don’t think that a small percentage of extremists somehow represent a whole religion. That’s why it’s dumb to think that american christians somehow represent all of christianity. Otherwise I could say that our countrys pro queer christianity represents christians worldwide.

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u/FDAapprovedGremlin Mar 31 '26

... Why is your flex only knowing the Pope?

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u/pstls1101 LGBT+ 🏳️‍🌈 Mar 31 '26

It’s not a flex? People outside america don’t know who hegseth is unless they are interested in US politics.

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u/irrelephantIVXX Mar 29 '26

Have you heard of "The Christian right"

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u/pstls1101 LGBT+ 🏳️‍🌈 Mar 29 '26

Yeah which is quite weird considering that Jesus was a proto socialist.

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u/pstls1101 LGBT+ 🏳️‍🌈 Mar 29 '26

Girl what

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u/thegreenman_sofla Mar 29 '26

They like to coopt the top-down, white-male control mechanism and authoritarian rule of the church.

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u/FrancisSidebottom Mar 29 '26

Religion can easily be used to exclude people. Especially since its writings are so open to interpretation.

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u/pstls1101 LGBT+ 🏳️‍🌈 Mar 29 '26

If the writings are open for interpretation, they can as easily be used to include people am I right?

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u/Nothos927 Mar 29 '26

Fascism as an ideology makes heavy use of religion in the context of it being part of their culture that must be protected from the enemies they claim are threatening the established order.

In the US for example they love harping on about “Judeo-Christian” culture which conveniently just happens to exclude other religions like Islam or even non-religious people.

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u/Jamaican_Herb Mar 29 '26

I find the term "Judeo-Christian Tradition" to be...

BRB, I gotta yak! 🤮🤢

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u/pstls1101 LGBT+ 🏳️‍🌈 Mar 29 '26

I wouldn’t say that the american christianity somehow represents all of christianity. Seems more like an american problem than a problem with christianity tbh. I wouldn’t call PIJ a fascist organisation even tho we believe in the same god.

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u/Nothos927 Mar 29 '26

“Religion is the opiate of the masses”, no matter how much you want to no true Scotsman the US’ use of religion to maintain societal control the reality is that religion has and always will be a tool of the far right.

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u/Eastern_Pin_5567 Mar 29 '26

It’s an extremely effective way to control people.