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minus-squareTheSlad@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up28arrow-down5·17 hours agoIt doesnt matter how pedantic you try to get. At this point every swastika is a nazi swastika unless you find it in a Buddhist temple.
minus-squareiAmTheTot@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18arrow-down5·16 hours agoI find that insulting to the cultures and people who have used it for a thousand years and continue to do so. I’d rather be pedantic than dismissive of their much older beliefs.
minus-squareBradleyUffner@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·12 hours agoThat’s on the Nazis and the people that still tolerate them and fly their symbols.
minus-squareiAmTheTot@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·12 hours agoI think people who can’t appreciate context or nuance are also partly to blame. You can’t “take something back” if you never try.
minus-squarehitwright@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·9 minutes agoIt’s a symbol, often used by the baltic cultures, often symbolizing sun, god, or perkūnas (a god similiar to zeus). And boy was it popular. Many traditional clothes, chests, doors, furniture are often decorated with svastikas. It’s a neat little symbol and fuck the nazis trying to monopolize it.
It doesnt matter how pedantic you try to get. At this point every swastika is a nazi swastika unless you find it in a Buddhist temple.
I find that insulting to the cultures and people who have used it for a thousand years and continue to do so. I’d rather be pedantic than dismissive of their much older beliefs.
That’s on the Nazis and the people that still tolerate them and fly their symbols.
I think people who can’t appreciate context or nuance are also partly to blame. You can’t “take something back” if you never try.
Fuck them baltics, eh?
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It’s a symbol, often used by the baltic cultures, often symbolizing sun, god, or perkūnas (a god similiar to zeus). And boy was it popular.
Many traditional clothes, chests, doors, furniture are often decorated with svastikas.
It’s a neat little symbol and fuck the nazis trying to monopolize it.