A fan was ejected from a U.S. Open tennis match early Tuesday morning after German player Alexander Zverev complained the man used language from Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime.

Zverev, the No. 12 seed, was serving at 2-2 in the fourth set of his match against No. 6 Jannik Sinner when he suddenly went to chair umpire James Keothavong and pointed toward the fan, who was sitting in a section behind the umpire.

“He just said the most famous Hitler phrase there is in this world,” Zverev told Keothavong. “It’s not acceptable.”

“He started singing the anthem of Hitler that was back in the day. It was ‘Deutschland über alles’ and it was a bit too much,” Zverev said.

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    in context though? the context that i went to great lengths to provide? you’re just ignoring that to try to make an argumentative point…

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      I don’t think that context excuses nearly as much as you think. At no point in my life have I been drunk or giddy enough to shout God Save the Queen or recite some confederate anthem. And I’ve been damn drunk before.

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        Sounds like a challenge. I’ll bring the Cuervo, you bring the Beam, let’s get drunk and sing God Save the Queen!

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        alright, if that sounded like an excuse to you this morning, i apologize alright… i was not excusing this moron…

        reactionary fuckwits gauging the harshness of language

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      Yes, in any context, and the more context you provide to justify Nazi chants, the less convincing any argument you make will be.

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          the guy legitimately just got really carried away shouting some stupid shit… doesn’t sound like the fan was seriously supporting Hitler or anything… apparently just a loud moron who needed some attention…

          I might be a reactionary moron, but at least I’ve never had to explain the nuance between excusing a nazi and merely attempting to explain why being a nazi isn’t so bad. Do go on, though, because it’s still not clear how you weren’t excusing the nazi chants.

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            i’m saying quite explicitly that i don’t think he’s a Nazi, based on the evidence… so i’m not defending Nazis… this is how you’re demonstrating your reactionism… you assume he’s a Nazi, and therefore my language is not harsh enough for you… it’s a pain in the ass trying to explain this to you through your reactionary tendency… perhaps you’re unable to see things rationally for some reason…

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              Based on the evidence that he shouted Nazi slogans, and he was drunk, you’re saying you don’t think it’s fair to say he was drunk and shouting Nazi slogans, but you’re not defending the drunk guy shouting of Nazi slogans? And your defense is that I’m overreacting to the Nazi slogans because I said it’s not OK to shout Nazi slogans? So I’m the irrational one in this conversation?

              Were you perchance bitten by a radioactive projector?

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          No offense but that is literally what you were doing. Maybe reread your comment.