How many people do you think backed the Nazis and ultimately got killed by the Nazis? Do you think they're sympathetic people too?

No, which I've said over, and over, and over. Please read my comments before replying.

For everyone who figures the people even bringing this stuff up are extremists: the above is a perfectly reasonable point of view, right? I think so.

I don't care about you masturbating but I do care about which public figures gave Nazi salutes and praised fascists. That's just the way God made me.

No, I'm on point. The article's title: "What did David Bowie mean to you?" My answer: that thing where you hold your arm up at a steep angle that means Heil Hitler, because he did that.

You have a lot of nerve calling me crazy when you're the one begging me to shut up about the article topic, David Bowie, throwing a Nazi salute. That happened, there's a nice big photograph of it.

Many people here figure that political criticism means you must deny the importance of the artist somehow. That would be as impossible here as it is with Céline. Some of Kurt Vonnegut's best writing is on that topic and he doesn't exactly say Céline deserved roses at his funeral. He had read Céline, if anyone wonders.

I'm repeating over and over that David Bowie threw a Nazi salute and declared his support for fascism. I think that serves a social cause. You're completely wrong about my age and what I think is funny is that you figure you have to be young and naive to point out literal Nazi salutes as a relevant issue to someone's…

But David Bowie, the drugs put that into his brain. I'm curious how the information content of things like the Nazis and their salute of the Führer and his undying cause of the Aryan purity of the Third Reich in its suicidal quest to kill gays, Jews and gypsies - how did they get all that into the drugs? Because…

I understand almost everyone is going to let his Nazi salute fly. Consider those of us who won't part of a working society, and the point of it is to remind you to pay attention to Nazi shit.

Mel Gibson was drunk! Very drunk! Not an anti-Semite!

It's wacky to me that I see as replies, "oh are you going to start a petition to get him banned"? Like, accepting serious flaws, flaws that make his death less than a total global mourning period, into a fuller understanding of his work is not on the table anymore.

Tumblr being the only place where throwing a Nazi salute and praising fascism is an act of deplorable moral turpitude.

Good, and no.

Okay, but David Bowie's the one who threw a Nazi salute. I think he provided the joke.

We should understand that his body of work was informed by despicable views and how. It would be as pointless to start a petition now as it would be against Céline or Wagner. But I think some anti-fascist actions on his memorials wouldn't be out of place, so that's a good suggestion.

Pay no attention to age of consent because you dislike the source of the information for other reasons!

I'm aware of Eric Clapton's nasty remarks about South Asians and he doesn't get a pass either. Using punk rock as an excuse for that shit does not fly in about a million ways on top of that.

A Nazi salute. Sorry, that's not some sort of youthful indiscretion everyone commits, you don't get to shake that one.

Because it's fucking true.