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You need to explain yourself better. You seem to be opposed to Nazism, but in favor of their symbol. Why?
by Buttons840 10y ago
You need to explain yourself better. You seem to be opposed to Nazism, but in favor of their symbol. Why?
- jstanley 10y agoBecause it's a symbol that existed before they did. Why should they have the ability to wipe the symbol out of use just because they used it for bad things?
- chipperyman573 10y agoThe Nazis stole the symbol from a religion (I believe Hinduism, may be wrong).
- revscat 10y agoBuddhism.
- lacampbell 10y agoVariations of the swastika have been used in many cultures around the world, from the Far East to ancient Europe. The Nazis took it from the latter source, though it shows up in many Indian and East Asian religious contexts.
- chaosphere2112 10y agoPresumably a reference to the long history of the symbol prior to its appropriation by the Nazis. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika
- nkristoffersen 10y agoDoesn't seem odd as the symbol was used for thousands of years before the nazis. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika
- rjbwork 10y agoSwastikas are an ancient symbol of many religions and cultures across the world, and is usually a symbol of sacredness, good, luck, god, and other such meanings. In fact, the name itself comes from a sanskrit word. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika#Hinduism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika#Hinduism You'll see it in much stonework on their temples and other buildings, especially as it does not have the associated stigma in Asia as it does in the West.
- yannyu 10y agoThe swastika predated the Nazi party and Hitler by several millennia, and is still an important part of several religions and cultures. Wishing for the swastika to become un-stigmatized isn't really so controversial from that perspective.
- berberous 10y agoNot OP, but probably for aesthetic reasons. It's symmetrical, and has been a religious symbol for 11,000 years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika
- ahakki 10y agoI assume because the swastica has many uses that are far older than it's modern western usage [0] [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika
- bighi 10y agoBecause it's not their symbol. It was a symbol with many positive meanings that existed for a long time before Nazis.
- tokenizerrr 10y agoIt is not their symbol. They are just the most recent to use it.
- baby 10y agoI upvoted you because it is sad that ignorance is downvoted :(
- Buttons840 10y agoMy initial instinct was to down vote you, because (as we've discussed) Swastikas are synonymous with Nazism to many people, but on second reading it didn't seem like you were actually supporting Nazis so I decided I would ask. I also thought others might down vote you like I almost did. I know I could have done a Google search and figured it out on my own, but if we're not allowed to ask questions which are already answered somewhere on the internet then I guess we wouldn't be asking very many questions.
- Dylan16807 10y agoA downvote like that isn't personal, and if a comment that's wrong out of ignorance is visibly downvoted then that can help teach passers-by.