its so painfully common. the “nazi phase” thing is so often pure projection + also comes with a massive double standard as *their* past is past and therefore off limits but others’ pasts are open season, regardless of whether they actually even had a “nazi phase”

the other issue is that most people who are accused of having a "nazi phase" were no were close to being nazis. Like some people were just dipshit chuddy liberals

It's often also that "had a chud phase as a teen growing up in a deeply conservative family" gets turned into "was a nazi" and then "I don't care what they do or say now or have been for like a decade, once a nazi always a nazi"...

I rarely talk about how I was raised as a seventh day adventist because I just know that if I do and that gets picked up by certain crowds, it'll get turned into "a reactionary phase," then after telephone that'll become "a nazi phase," and that'll be the first & last thing people hear about me.

Esp. with tankies, if you're someone like Chaosismel who has gone from being alt right straight to tankie and never taken a breather to disconnect from radicalism as a whole you're sus as hell. it's just swapping one edgy aesthetic for another.

more than once it's been someone admitting to something like posting on /tg/ and /x/ a decade ago, and then getting dogpiled for "being a 4chan nazi" and lumped in with actual fash *by active kf users*