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By "racist background" they mean "racist association". Perhaps it didn't start that way but due to history it can easily be twisted to be seen as offensive. I

• drdeca 6y ago
  “Easily twisted to be seen as offensive” is not the same thing as “offensive”. [edit: also, that doesn’t really explain citing Rosstex?] Also, my understanding is that that there are places in the world where the primary associations for a swastika are the earlier ones, not the nazi ones. I don’t see a reason to tell the people living in those places to stop using that symbol amongst themselves (though asking that they not use it in places where it is likely to be genuinely misinterpreted may be reasonable)