I think that’s a question we should be asking about any candidate, not just the ones with nazi tattoos. I also think it’s fair to say candidates with nazi tattoos probably have a higher preponderance of nazi beliefs. Unfortunately without being able to see the future we can’t know for sure how someone will act.

Yes but you didn’t have it tattoo’d over your heart for 18 years… you tend to recognize things you’re familiar with.

But by all means, lets please have the first senator to call Gaza a genocide have a Nazi tattoo, that won’t cause any problems.

I’m not trying to say the other candidates are good, but we still have like 7 months to find someone who doesn’t have any recently covered nazi tattoos.

Let the downvotes flow I guess.

He only covered it up a few days ago, after the story broke. It would absolutely be different if he had old nazi tattoos that had been covered up a decade ago, even five years ago, but he waited until he got called out. His former political director said Platner knew what the tattoo was.

Plus it’s the subject of one of the most famous comedy sketches on the internet. The guy has been using reddit since 2009, there is no way he didn’t see the “are we the baddies” meme.

Even if we buy his story, it feels disqualifying for someone who wants to be in the senate to not recognize the second most common nazi symbol in the world.