“He said Tang Guoqiang was an art student." (Tang Guoqiang is an actor famous for portraying Mao; “an art student” is an apparent reference to Hitler as a symbol of dictatorship in general.)

Maybe it’s just from having not grown up in such a society, but I would find it infuriating to discuss things in such a roundabout way. How can you ever establish a common understanding when everything “sensitive” is hiding behind several layers of indirection ?

If anyone is interested in a more thorough and recent write-up of why many of us call DHH fash, this gnome blog post is pretty good: https://blogs.gnome.org/alatiera/2025/11/06/dhh-and-omarchy-midlife-crisis/