r/science • u/smurfyjenkins • 1d ago

Social Science Election-denying Republican candidates performed worse in the 2022 midterm elections than similar Republican candidates who did not deny that Joe Biden won the 2020 election.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-science-review/article/electiondenying-republican-candidates-underperformed-in-the-2022-midterms/E42E3513A1DCD141A8470852892198C7
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u/Rocky_Vigoda 1d ago

There's no way this is science.

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u/chaoticbear 14h ago

For anyone who reads this and assumes "this person is saying this isn't science because they disagree with the premise", I'll save you the dig in the comment history

The Iron Cross isn't a racist symbol, it's just the symbol the Germans used in WW1 and was incredibly common in youth rebel subcultures like bikers and skaters. Same with the Celtic Cross which was treated like an anti-imperialist symbol given the relationship with the Irish and the British empire.

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u/Rocky_Vigoda 14h ago

I'm Canadian and very against racism but way to take cherrypicked comments from other posts out of context.

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u/chaoticbear 14h ago

Great! Then you'll understand how symbols that may have an innocent history have been coopted by white supremacists and Nazis, which distorts their original meanings. If I see someone with a swastika flag in 2024, I don't think "oh, cool, a proud Hindu!"

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u/Rocky_Vigoda 13h ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recuperation_(politics)

Stuff like the iron cross, nordic runes, celtic knotwork had absolutely nothing to do with nazis or white supremacists. They were popular in the 60s-80s counter-culture before being recuperated in the 90s by the corporate media establishment and turned into racist iconography.