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« Reply #25 on: February 13, 2012, 02:07:39 PM »

According to J. J. if someone were to display this it would not mean they were a Nazi:



Of course not.
They would be a supporter of the Libertarian National Socialist Green Party.
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« Reply #26 on: February 13, 2012, 02:27:21 PM »

They could theoretically be Hindus! I could probably dig up some swastikas in my parents' home.
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« Reply #27 on: February 13, 2012, 02:45:48 PM »

They could theoretically be Hindus! I could probably dig up some swastikas in my parents' home.

Haha very true!
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« Reply #28 on: February 13, 2012, 05:11:41 PM »

It's really funny how people are quick to jump on our military. As someone said, our soldiers tend to be younger men, and younger people are generally stupid and less knowledgeable than older generations.

I refuse to bash these men. And I'm Jewish.
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« Reply #29 on: February 13, 2012, 06:35:49 PM »



You can't assume that a swastika is always Nazi, even in Europe.  The Finns were using the swastika even before there was a Nazi party.  The above is the flag of the Finnish Air Force.
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« Reply #30 on: February 13, 2012, 09:00:33 PM »

It's really funny how people are quick to jump on our military. As someone said, our soldiers tend to be younger men, and younger people are generally stupid and less knowledgeable than older generations.

So if I understand this correctly, jumping on the military is bad, but calling soldiers predominantly stupid is okay.
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« Reply #31 on: February 13, 2012, 10:55:41 PM »

They could theoretically be Hindus! I could probably dig up some swastikas in my parents' home.

Haha very true!



Hindu symbol from Wikipedia.

The flag is two stylized white S's on a blue background.  It is not a Nazi symbol.
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« Reply #32 on: February 13, 2012, 11:02:14 PM »

J. J., perhaps you'd like to spend the day out and about wearing the Hindu symbol of peace on a t-shirt or something.  And maybe two stylized S's on the back.  Let us know how you do.
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« Reply #33 on: February 14, 2012, 08:06:26 AM »



1936: Some people are yet to get the memo about swastika
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« Reply #34 on: February 14, 2012, 11:38:44 AM »

They could theoretically be Hindus! I could probably dig up some swastikas in my parents' home.

Haha very true!



Hindu symbol from Wikipedia.

The flag is two stylized white S's on a blue background.  It is not a Nazi symbol.

It's not just Hindu.  Buddhists use it too, and Hopi, and Jews.  

A little off topic, but here's a compendium of its use as a religious symbol:



And it was also marketed in late 19C/early 20C love tokens in the US.  Broaches and amulets often had swastikas, and gentlemens pins as well.  

And here it appears on a coca-cola ad from about a hundred years ago:





Obviously its use has waned since the 1930s, when the Nazis co-opted it, but I still see Indians wearing shirts with swastikas about town from time to time.  It's kinda like the rainbow flag, in that sense.  It has long been a symbol of the Tihuantinsuyu.  For several hundred years it has symbolized the quechua-speaking people of the andes, and their culture.  It flies majestically over Cuzco.  I remember on my first trip to Cuzco some Californians commented to their tour guide that it was "the gay flag."  How very ignorant.  But that's the way it is.  An ancient symbol gets co-opted and exploited by a group, and other groups who have used that symbol, sometimes for thousands of years, fear its exhibition, and begin to hide all traces of it.  Should they surrender before ignorance?  The politically correct would say that they should.  

But this is all a bit off topic.  The topic was about an awkward photo, but it's only awkward because some sensationalistic reporters decided it should be.  Those marines wanted a cool, stylized symbol for their unit.  You are all reading way too much into it.  In any event, the letter S hasn't been copyrighted, and it doesn't belong to any particular group.  I consider it an open source.
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« Reply #35 on: February 15, 2012, 04:05:51 PM »

J. J., perhaps you'd like to spend the day out and about wearing the Hindu symbol of peace on a t-shirt or something.  And maybe two stylized S's on the back.  Let us know how you do.

At a Hindu gathering, sure. 

Are these guys Nazis too, Joe? 



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