Their defense, by the way, is "We didn't know we were essentially paraphrasing Hitler, we were just expressing a common nationalist sentiment."
I'm not sure that "We weren't being edgelords, we just substantively agree with some of the principles of National Socialism" is that effective an argument
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A Student Publication at Harvard Echoed Hitler. Now It Has Been Suspended.
The Harvard Salient, a conservative outlet, used a phrase that was similar to a speech given by Hitler. Its independent board paused its operations over material it called “reprehensible, abusive and demeaning.”