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I feel bad for the author. To be labelled a nazi for using the counter-clockwise svatiska is undue. Edit: Can I have any argument instead of simply downvoting

I feel bad for the author. To be labelled a nazi for using the counter-clockwise svatiska is undue. Edit: Can I have any argument instead of simply downvoting me?

lucasmullens 7y ago
He rotates it the other way in his github profile picture.
- rat9988 7y ago
  You are right about it, didn't pay attention to his github picture.
greglindahl 7y ago
Do you have the same bad feelings for neo-Nazis who try to rules-lawyer the anti-swastika laws of Germany by displaying the mirror image? We're talking about an EU citizen, who is professing to be ignorant of what he learned in school, after he is informed about the issue.
rickycook 7y ago
i don’t think people were labelling him a nazi; i think they had issue with their own projects, or their name being accidentally associated with nazis
atoav 7y ago
My reasoning to critizise him goes like this: It is quite apparent that he knows about the meanings and uses of the symbol, therefore he could (and should) have anticipated the discussion. I grew up in an environment where nazi insignia are forbidden, and a very common way for convinced nazis to get around this was to just flip the damn thing and claim it is ok now, while in spirit you still go and use it to hail hitler with your friends. I grew up in southern Austria next to the Slovenian border (which is where this guy is based). This part of Austria had a 40% right wing majority in the past and after a few beers right wingers still openly hail hitler in a pub, despite that beeing illegal. My grandfather who passed away a few years ago was a convinced nazi — this thing is still alive here. The author is based in slovenia, literally a hour by car from where I lived. There is no way somebody from that area uses that symbol accidentally, without having considered its nazi connotations. This is an area where every other person had somebody in his family killed by nazis or were profiting from it in some way. So either this person is incredibly naive and tries to overwrite history that is still very much ongoing or it is somebody who in full knowledge of all of this still decided to go with the symbol. In any way it doesn’t look good to me.

I feel bad for the author. To be labelled a nazi for using the counter-clockwise svatiska is undue. Edit: Can I have any argument instead of simply downvoting me?

lucasmullens 7y ago

He rotates it the other way in his github profile picture.

rat9988 7y ago
You are right about it, didn't pay attention to his github picture.

greglindahl 7y ago

Do you have the same bad feelings for neo-Nazis who try to rules-lawyer the anti-swastika laws of Germany by displaying the mirror image? We're talking about an EU citizen, who is professing to be ignorant of what he learned in school, after he is informed about the issue.

rickycook 7y ago

i don’t think people were labelling him a nazi; i think they had issue with their own projects, or their name being accidentally associated with nazis

atoav 7y ago

My reasoning to critizise him goes like this: It is quite apparent that he knows about the meanings and uses of the symbol, therefore he could (and should) have anticipated the discussion. I grew up in an environment where nazi insignia are forbidden, and a very common way for convinced nazis to get around this was to just flip the damn thing and claim it is ok now, while in spirit you still go and use it to hail hitler with your friends. I grew up in southern Austria next to the Slovenian border (which is where this guy is based). This part of Austria had a 40% right wing majority in the past and after a few beers right wingers still openly hail hitler in a pub, despite that beeing illegal. My grandfather who passed away a few years ago was a convinced nazi — this thing is still alive here. The author is based in slovenia, literally a hour by car from where I lived. There is no way somebody from that area uses that symbol accidentally, without having considered its nazi connotations. This is an area where every other person had somebody in his family killed by nazis or were profiting from it in some way. So either this person is incredibly naive and tries to overwrite history that is still very much ongoing or it is somebody who in full knowledge of all of this still decided to go with the symbol. In any way it doesn’t look good to me.