Hans: Have courage, my friend! Erich: Yeah. Er.… Hans, I’ve just noticed something. Hans:(looking through binoculars) These Communists are all cowards! Erich: Have you looked at our caps recently? Hans:(lowers binoculars) Our caps? Erich: The badges on our caps. Have you looked at them? Hans: What?… No… A bit. Erich: …They’ve got skulls on them. Hans: Hm? Erich: Have you noticed our caps have actually got little pictures of skulls on them? Hans: Er… I don’t, erm... Erich: Hans… are we the baddies?
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Hans: Well — maybe they’re the skulls of our enemies! Erich: Maybe. But is that how it comes across? I mean, it doesn’t say next to the skull, y’know, “Yeah, we killed him, but trust us, this guy was horrid”! Hans: Well, no, but— Erich: I mean, what do skulls make you think of? Death. Cannibals. Beheading. Erm… pirates... Hans:(brightening) Pirates are fun! Erich: I didn’t say we weren’t fun, but, fun or not, pirates are still the baddies. I just can’t think of anything good about a skull! Hans: What about pure Aryan skull shape? Erich: Even that is more usually depicted with the skin still on! Whereas the Allies— Hans: Oh, you haven’t been listening to Allied propaganda? Of course, they’re gonna say we’re the bad guys! Erich: But they didn’t get to design our uniforms! And their symbols are all, y’know, quite nice! Stars, stripes, lions, sickles...
Emphasis mine. How do you know someone’s a bad actor, scary to be around, psychopathic, literally Voldemort, etc? Well sometimes the call is actually pretty hard and requires a lot of detailed investigations, nuanced contextual understanding, etc. But in some other times, they’ll just tell you.
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Emphasis mine. How do you know someone’s a bad actor, scary to be around, psychopathic, literally Voldemort, etc? Well sometimes the call is actually pretty hard and requires a lot of detailed investigations, nuanced contextual understanding, etc. But in some other times, they’ll just tell you.