This is the crazy that results from whipping up hysteria. Not to mention that an Iron Cross isn’t specific to Nazism.
Via Daily Caller:
The New Yorker was forced to apologize on Monday after one of its writers falsely accused a U.S. Marine veteran of having a Nazi tattoo on his elbow.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement tweeted a photo of Justin Gaertner, a Marine veteran who lost his legs while serving in Afghanistan and now works as an ICE computer forensics analyst.
Gaertner has a cross-like tattoo on his elbow, and The New Yorker’s Talia Lavin suggested in a now-deleted tweet that it was actually an Iron Cross, a symbol often associated with Nazism. Lavin’s unfounded tweet sparked a significant amount of anger directed at Gaertner, and ICE had to send follow-up tweets explaining the tattoo.
“The tattoo shown here is the symbol for his platoon while he fought in Afghanistan,” ICE explained.