[Lurkinanloomin]

Swastikas are easy to draw.
All straight lines.

[hanamizu]

Swastikas are easy to draw. All straight lines.

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You’d think so, but it really hard to draw a good one. Students for many years have tried carving in desk tops etc. They nearly always do a poor job of it.

Hitler was no slouch when it came to choosing it for his party’s symbol. It is very ancient (you see loads of them in Buddhist temples in Japan) and it almost asks to be drawn. The fact that it makes adults recoil is even better as far as a kid is concerned.

I taught 12-year olds for many years. They have no more idea of the Holocaust and the Nazis than they do of French literature. Hate crime—give me a break.