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This perfectly valid comment by slipperybeluga is still showing up as [dead] for some reason so I'll repost it for them: > What an incredibly narrow view that
by Razengan 4mo ago
This perfectly valid comment by slipperybeluga is still showing up as [dead] for some reason so I'll repost it for them:
> What an incredibly narrow view that completely dismisses the culture and history of the majority of the planet. As others have said, it's still in use in India and China which make up the majority of the population on earth. Rather than discarding their culture and history, we can just stop indoctrinating children year after year on a single point in time and history. A lot of tragedies occurred in the last 100 years. My 13 years of public school education didn't once cover Armenian Genocide, Stalin's forced collectivisation famine deaths, Mao's great famine, Khmer rouge, or the 5 million+ American military caused civilian deaths in the last 100 years. But we covered "the" holocaust every year (even the title treats like it's the only holocaust). Are the political symbols of these other terrible events and actors emblazoned in your mind and if not, why not? Why give it so much power?
> The swastika has thousands of years of history outside this tiny point in time. Used by everyone from native Americans to vikings to indians and east Asians. Silly to have to hide from it and try to destroy it because evil people coopted it in one corner of the earth for < 0.5% of its history.
- simonw 4mo agoThat's some pretty heavy "whataboutism" right there: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
- Razengan 4mo agoThe victors liberated the POWs but they couldn't liberate the symbol.
- daneel_w 3mo agoIt's precisely what you're doing. You just insist that Western events in the last century are more important, more "valid", and must take precedence. "A billion people in Asia use, live with and benefit from this symbol on a daily basis, since millennia." - "OK but what about the atrocities in WW2?"
- simonw 3mo agoAll I'm doing is here is saying that there's nothing inherently bad about someone deciding they don't want a particular symbol to randomly show up in their generated QR codes. The pushback I'm getting for expressing that opinion is bizarre.
- Razengan 3mo agoThe pushback is against the situation that a fewer people want to suppress a symbol THEY co-opted, while other, possibly a majority of people prefer the freedom to continue using it. Imagine banning "Allah Akbar" after 9/11 or banning the Christian cross because of the atrocities committed during the Crusades
- simonw 3mo agoA software library that omits specific randomly generated patterns from a QR code is not "banning" anything.