The context is that he was posting on a news article about a fake police officer with SS tattoos carrying weapons to intimidate BLM protestors in Las Vegas.

https://archive.ph/EDNKt (this cnn article says his reddit username is p-hustle)

I used samac.io to search his deleted comments.

A few more comments:

      • goferking (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.org
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        The amount of people trying to argue that and that they’ve never seen it before is wild

        I’ve been on the internet for decades and never seen it before 🚩

        Then again are so too many that love to claim they need to be shown the dog whistles before they belive they’re used by those they interact with

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          Seriously, HOW? It’s an incredibly common and well known symbol, not to mention anyone who looks at it without knowing it will instantly think that it looks like an ultra-right-wing thing, especially tattooed on a war criminal’s chest. I’m amazed that people apparently have never seen it. It’s literally in the incredibly well known “are we the baddies” sketch.

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            Combination of Americans are fucking stupid and so many think stuff like that sketch are going over the top.

            Like those that think people in starship troopers are the good ones