Less than thrilled to see that liberals are ready to get behind rabid genocidal racists as long as they are anti-Russia.
I’m willing to give them the benefit of the doubt that may have not looked up what that flag represent, but still, they should really look up the peoples and organizations that the medias present as something/someone they should support.
In that case it kind of do discredit them. These are the same peoples who are convinced that any accusation of neo NAZIs having any power in Ukraine is nothing more than “Russian propaganda”, yet here they are, having the flag of the most important and deadly group of Ukrainian NAZI collaborators flown right in their faces and they think nothing of it, is it because they don’t know or because they don’t care I don’t know, but seeing that should absolutely somewhat lower your trust in what these peoples have to say about neo NAZIs in Ukraine.
If the protestors forbade the use of these symbols in their protests and turned away suspect peoples that would be different, but they aren’t, they are letting the flag of a NAZI collaborator death squad who participated in the Holocaust being flown.
Like, even if you don’t believe that the Ukrainian government is controlled by fascist you should be very critical of this because if you were right that it’s just Russian propaganda then the last thing you should want is fueling Russia’s narrative by passively letting fellow pro-Ukraine peoples display neo-NAZI symbology. Pro-Ukraine peoples, if they truly believe their narrative, should learn to spot neo-NAZI simbols used in Ukraine and be as critical of their use in pro-Ukraine movements as we are.