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Here is the actual symbol.
If you had asked me what that symbol was before this campaign, I would have just said a pirate symbol. The only people with obsessive knowledge of SS iconography are WW2 buffs, neonazis, and neonazi WW2 buffs.
If you gave the average person a quiz, asking people to pick out nazi iconography from other uses of that imagery such as pirate flags. Most would fail that quiz. You likely would as well.
I'm sorry, but the "Nazi tattoo" thing is bullshit. A kid got a pirate flag tattoo, later found it was problematic, and covered it up. And bottom feeders like you use that as justification to slander him, even though there is no allegation he has ever been involved in any neo Nazi or similar movements ever before. I think you may be the actual Nazi here.
Notice how the guy's only response to you is to call you ignorant for pointing out that he didn't actually know a goddamn thing about the topic?
It's not an obscure symbol, it is one of the most commonly used Nazi emblems, for example seen here:
The totenkopf might have been common among Nazi ranks and in its symbology, but the American education system failed to communicate that fact.
I know about the swastika, SS symbol, and iron cross, yet Graham Platner's campaign was the first I've ever heard about the totenkopf.
But hey, Graham has never organized with Neonazi groups, and he covered up the tattoo once he learned the meaning. Case closed.
Why are we spending time on this and avoiding the part where Platner is Anti-Israel as compared to Susan Collins? Is the Gaza genocide not important to you??
Your ignorance of history is not something to be celebrated. You sound naive to a fault. Life will be very hard for you.
The average person doesn't have this symbol tattooed on their chest, and as such are less prone to learn about it. When you (a person who presumably doesn't have a Totenkopf on their chest) see a Totenkopf in the countless media about WWII, or the are we the baddies meme, or whatever, it doesn't stand out to you, and it isn't memorable, and you forget, and you don't learn about it. And that makes complete sense.
But if you have it tattooed on your chest, and it's what you see every morning when you brush your teeth, you're a bit more likely to go "wait a minute I know that" when a totenkopf appears on the screen. Maybe you'll miss it the first couple times, but in 18 whole years of adult life with this thing on your chest, you will at some point make the connection between your tattoo and the symbol on David Mitchell's cap.
Also, just as a meta argument: arguing that someone who knows what a Totenkopf is is a nazi but that having it tattooed on your chest is fine is completely fucking bizarre.