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The problem with so much of alt. rock's use of fascism as some kind of shock tactic is actually how safe it is. We live in a liberal society where such gestures are ultimately tolerated (albeit reluctantly and at times with some opposition) There are now far greater social taboos than National Socialism, which has become little more than a distant symbol of evil or 'wrongness' in most parts of the world - at least those parts of the world where this type of music tends to be created (America, Britain and Central Europe, Japan, etc.). You only have to look at the current moral outrage in Britain surrounding the whole 'Madelaine' saga to see that the swastika is, by comparison, a fairly minor source of anxiety in most people's lives.
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