<p>Maine Democrat Graham Platner, who is running for the U.S. Senate in Maine, faced backlash for his Nazi-symbol tattoo and several nasty social media posts — and during a recent interview, he attributed both on the &#8220;culture&#8221; that he was exposed to while serving in the United States military.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nazi-tattoo-guy-has-chuck-schumers-handpicked-candidate-on-the-ropes">Platner</a>, who served both in the Marine Corps and the U.S. Army, got the tattoo <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/graham-platner-has-known-about-his-tattoos-nazi-connotations-since-2012">covered up</a> after the initial public outcry, appeared on &#8220;The Takeout with Major Garrett&#8221; — and he argued that the &#8220;hyper-masculine&#8221; culture in the infantry had &#8220;colored&#8221; his perspective in the past.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">In response to controversy surrounding a tattoo resembling a Nazi symbol and comments he made previously on Reddit, Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner says &#8220;much of it was because of the culture I had come out of.&#8221;</p>
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<p>&#8220;Graham, there have been a lot of things said about you. Things that you have written on Reddit, a tattoo you had and a controversy around that, and I want to ask you this, because I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s been put to you this way before: Is there anything you&#8217;ve done or said that you regret that did not come from the stresses you internalized from Post-Traumatic Stress itself? That is to say, is PTSD the explanation for everything, or did you also just make some additional human errors that you want to explain or contextualize?&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ll be up front,&#8221; Platner said, adding that he&#8217;d never blamed his past behavior solely on the fact that he&#8217;d been diagnosed with PTSD.</p>
<p>&#8220;When I left the military, I came out of a hyper-masculine, hyper-violent place. I did four tours in the infantry. We have a crude sense of humor in the infantry. We certainly have a, I would say, narrow view of a lot of topics, and that colored my opinions and my beliefs,&#8221; Platner continued.</p>
<p>He went on to claim that it wasn&#8217;t until he got out of the military and spent time with different people that his thoughts and opinions began to change over time.</p>
<p>Platner went on to say that he didn&#8217;t believe his past opinions were related to his combat service necessarily, but said that &#8220;much of it was because of the culture I had come out of, and over the years in between, I&#8217;ve met a lot more people, had a lot more experiences, learned a lot more about the world, and my opinions have changed with it.&#8221;</p>
<p>Platner is currently polling well ahead of Governor Janet Mills (D-ME). Whoever wins the primary will face incumbent Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) in November&#8217;s general election.</p>

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