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Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 4:32 pm
by daedalus__
It wouldn't be a big deal if people didn't make it a big deal.
Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 5:23 pm
by jayshields
Daedalus- wrote:It wouldn't be a big deal if people didn't make it a big deal.
Well said.
Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 8:23 pm
by Todd_Z
Hmmm... sounds strangely like pubic opinion in germany in 1938
Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 3:36 am
by Jenk
It sounds like Gemrany 1938, because someone isn't being White-Gloved-Politically-Correct about something? Hardly.
Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 3:05 pm
by Mordred
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?
Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 6:40 pm
by AngusL
The Nazi swastika was mirrored from the older version which, you are quite correct, has been around for several thousand years longer in one way or another (used in Hindi, IIRC, as well as being present in some way in a number of much older runic alphabets).
Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 8:04 pm
by n00b Saibot
it is holy sign for us Hindus... as for Nazis they considered themselves real `Aryans` hence the adoption of the Swastika sign...