An innocent reason to display the Iron Cross?

"The Iron Cross (German: Eisernes Kreuz, abbreviated EK) was a military decoration in the Kingdom of Prussia, and later in the German Empire (1871–1918) and Nazi Germany (1933–1945). The design, a black cross pattée with a white or silver outline, was derived from the insignia of the medieval Teutonic Order and borne by its knights from the 13th century. As well as being a military medal, it has also been used as an emblem by the Prussian Army, the Imperial German Army, and the Reichswehr of the German Republic, while the Balkenkreuz (bar cross) variant was used by the Wehrmacht. The Iron Cross is now the emblem of the Bundeswehr, the modern German armed forces."

Maybe he's just a military fan or an admirer of the modern German army?

Or, of course, it could be that he just liked that look of it and has no idea of it's history.

No .

Oh look some Nazi German tanks in Germany 🤦

Type hammer and sickle into their search engine.

Harlan Crow or Clarence Thomas should be able to tell us right?

You see loads of german and norse symbols on bikes and heavy metal album covers. Just happens that white supremacist types love it too. Im sure theres plenty of crossover. In the same vein, celtic crosses show up a lot too. I wouldnt worry about it until they start ranting about Soros or jews controlling the media.

Like Hitler did, it is literally them appropriating the symbols to their own twisted ends. Makes life difficult for people who make innocuous use of them. It let's the supremacist type project like they have way more supporters out there than they really do. Hitler's long dead and his appropriation has people wondering if tyre caps indicate their fellow modern man is a Nazi holdout. It's really quite sinister aftermath. To this day a lot of your more ignorant Christians perceive the intersection of almost any 2 differently lengthed lines as a judeo-christian indicator like Jesus was the first person to come up with a cross.

Not suggesting the album or band or the church are supremacists, but supremacists will try to recruit others etc. by propagandizing that the symbol appearing everywhere (like in church, and on band albums) are through tinfoil hat logic, support for their own cause.

Here an OP saw a normal german symbol and his first thought was "Nazi?"

Because of propaganda and cultural appropriation by a hate movement.

Nothing is or was ever stopping them from attempting to do so. You yourself just tacitly associated the color red with communism.

It's a fine example you mentioned, one that comes up in US politics frequently, automobiles being so ingrained in the culture now though not specifically color. The Tesla cars for example are politicized (they were 'pussy-liberal' machines, now Trump has setup shop in Texas and done all his Trump/Twitter nonsense so they've started being derided as 'freedumb mobiles' etc.), so are the Prius lineup. Politics are assumed about you by what you drive.

There was also a big-to-do during the 2008 Presidential election about flag lapel pins. Politicians tried to insinuate that anyone who wasn't wearing a United States flag pin is a socialist-commie loving democrat and anyone wearing one was a doing the right thing etc. then from there tried to twist any Democrat seen with the pin (or who was always wearing one) as capitulating to their nonsense.

Do we even need to get on to Red Hats vs. Pink Hats? We're not far removed from a race-war over cone-shaped nipples vs. nippels with ripples:

Hell the official color of Breast Cancer Awareness month is Pink. Ireland, on March 17 the color of support is Green the world over, even if you accidentally just wore the green shirt from yesterday again or always owned a green car, someone goes 'aha! green, I don't have to pinch you' etc - the Irish have culturally ingrained people to link the two, the color to the date.

Precisely! Sometimes a set of Tyre plugs is just a set of tyre plugs. But decades, a century on from the appropriation by eg. the Nazi Party, people are still left wondering if when they see an Iron Cross it might be a Nazi symbol. That's the lasting damage of cultural misappropriation.

Just to be clear, I used to listen to a lot of metal and I'm into bikes, so I'm not branding half the people I know as neo-nazis, but I notice the symbols and who is using them. Not suggesting the Highway Hawk catalogue is a neo-nazi recruiting tool. The Celtic cross one is pretty common in the US whereas here they're pretty common cultural symbols. There used to be a website called Stormfront that got talked about a lot on Boards a few years back and their logo was a Celtic cross. People respond to symbols. Stick an eye in a triangle and watch the conspiracy loons go wild.