If your response to someone talking about swastikas is "That used to be a indigenous symbol" (and you aren't actually indigenous) or "that used to mean peace" or whatever other "See how smart I am!" bullshit, you're an ass.
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If your response to someone talking about swastikas is "That used to be a indigenous symbol" (and you aren't actually indigenous) or "that used to mean peace" or whatever other "See how smart I am!" bullshit, you're an ass.
Really.
Swastikas are bad. Sure, some contexts might be okay for this symbol, but it's pretty much never the circumstance when someone is upset about seeing one.
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@joelle It's even more complicated than that. "It used to be indigenous" is nowadays typically a neon-Nazis' excuse, but it also used to be fashionable. In the early 20th century, swastikas became a bit of a commonplace fashion icon for a brief period, used for all sorts of random stuff. It's possible that, notwithstanding the official explanation about "Aryans", the factor of it having (had) been the "cool kids' symbol" was why Hitler grabbed it for himself.
Of course, after 1933, the Nazi associations made it rapidly uncool for everybody who wasnt Nazi and could pick their own symbols. As far as I know, the latest non-Nazi-related European use of swastikas riding the peculiarly long coat-tails of its Schliemannian popularity wave would be the Finnish Air Force, who only threw its swastikas (bearing very different colour schemes than the Nazis used) out in the Covid summer of 2020.
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Riley S. Faelanreplied to Riley S. Faelan last edited by [email protected]
@joelle Btw, there's a Behind the Bastards two-parter about Schliemann (who has a claim for bastardhood in his own right) making swastikas "cool".
