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I can understand that being an issue in Germany, and maybe France (where IIRC it's illegal to display it and there was a critical windows update several years ago replacing two swastika gliphs in some font - ha!). It's a stupid kind of law, but it's a law, so you gotta either change it legally or go by it.
But outside of this I don't see how a shape can be bad - first, it's an old old symbol with quite a lot of meanings loaded into it besides nazism which is barely the latest (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika). And even if nazism happened too soon and is still a sensitive issue - is it wise to try to forget it? It's like fairy tales - they do not exist to tell you that there are monsters, but to teach you that monsters can be beaten (Pratchett said that I think). Nazism was monstrous and it was beaten (in Europe to some extent at least, hopefully it will be beaten in other parts of the world too). End of story. Tell it to frighten children and teach them about it, don't push it under the carpet.
Aah, political correctness, who invented the crap anyway?
But outside of this I don't see how a shape can be bad - first, it's an old old symbol with quite a lot of meanings loaded into it besides nazism which is barely the latest (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika). And even if nazism happened too soon and is still a sensitive issue - is it wise to try to forget it? It's like fairy tales - they do not exist to tell you that there are monsters, but to teach you that monsters can be beaten (Pratchett said that I think). Nazism was monstrous and it was beaten (in Europe to some extent at least, hopefully it will be beaten in other parts of the world too). End of story. Tell it to frighten children and teach them about it, don't push it under the carpet.
Aah, political correctness, who invented the crap anyway?
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