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Posted on 01/11/2012 8:40:46 PM PST by smokingfrog
A cheap jewellery shop in a Brooklyn, New York, neighbourhood has found itself at the centre of an impassioned controversy because of a pair of $5.99 earrings.
Bejeweled, an accessories retailer in the predominantly Polish neighbourhood north of Williamsburg, was caught selling studs in the shape of a swastika by a shocked customer.
According to the tipster, who recounted the discovery on Gothamist, the manager's justification for the offensive merchandise was simply, 'business.'
Though bloggers and reviewers on popular search engine, Yelp, damned the store for selling the earrings, some pointed out that on closer inspection the swastika was in fact backwards and therefore resembled the Buddhist emblem for 'eternity.'
Another manager of the Manhattan Avenue location who was contacted by New York Daily News said of the hype surrounding the case: 'These people are ignorant.
'They shouldn’t say anything if they don’t know anything about symbols. I find this offensive.'
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
People really need to get things clear in their mind before they start freaking out. The Nazi swastika points right and is shown at a diagonal, the Buddhist/Indian/Hindu swastika points left and is shown flat.
The jewelry that is shown in the pic points left — it’s not the Nazi symbol. It’s also found in practically every Buddhist temple in Japan and probably every other nation with a sizable Buddhist population.
People really need to get things clear in their mind before they start freaking out. The Nazi swastika points right and is shown at a diagonal, the Buddhist/Indian/Hindu swastika points left and is shown flat.
The jewelry that is shown in the pic points left — it’s not the Nazi symbol. It’s also found in practically every Buddhist temple in Japan and probably every other nation with a sizable Buddhist population.
The Book of Kells, the famous Irish illuminated manuscript containing the four gospels, has many illustrations of swastikas.
People need to chill on this one.
I didn't realize the Brits use two L's instead of one.
The Navajo have a similar symbol.
No thanks to public education and multiculturalism.
That’s right! I remember seeing them on painted pottery.
My ten volume set of Kipling from around the turn of the last century all have a right point swastika on the spine, no doubt a reflection of its Indian perspective.
Actually, the only difference is the orientation. I live in India, and see swastikas all the time (there’s one built into a house near my office, made of windows), and they’re all pointing the same as the Nazi version. As I said, the only difference is that the Nazis turned it on one point, whereas the India version sits flat on one side.
I know someone who made earrings out of parts from an AR-15.
They are anodized, and one pair is blue, the other, pink.
I hope Chuck Schumer is offended.
Ho hum, much ado about nothing.
Several years ago I visited Seoul Korea on business.
Every inch of the hotel elevator’s interior was embossed with small “Swastika’s”!
Apparently an old time good luck symbol, appropriate to an elevator in a not quite first rate technology country.
BTW, this was during the “Asian Games” and again two years later during the Olympics.
I bet the elevator has not been remodeled.
Oh, and not only did the Navaho use a version, so did some of our own military up to early W.W. II.
Which part(s)?
Yeah, Hitler ruined it for those cute little mustaches, too.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/45th_Infantry_Division_(United_States)
The original patch is on the bottom left.
Idiots.
About 8 years ago a DC councilman got fired after he used the word, “niggardly” in a speech.
Victory by the Grievance Elite comes by being the most shocked, the most aggrieved.
Bye-bye logic.
I wonder how you'd classify a geographic feature, then. I mean, does east-west constitute horizontal? If the axis, to pick a noun, is southwest-northeast and southeast-northwest? LOL!
Here is a swastika, built by the United States Navy with your tax dollars.
It's part of the Naval Amphibious Base Coronado.
***The Navajo have a similar symbol.***
So do other tribes. It is part of the lore of the Pueblo Indians and can be seen on the walls of Mesa Verde if you know where to look.
About 40 years ago ARIZONA HIGHWAYS published a series of photos of Indian ruins and there on the wall was a swastika. Needless to say, several letters to the editor were opposed to showing this Nazi “graffiti”.
The editors had to TWICE print the lore of the Pueblos to show this was not graffiti but actual Indian paintings from hundreds of years before Hitler.
They were ornamental decorations on the bus stops on Osan AB in Korea when I was there in the late 80s/early 90s. Oh, and everywhere else I went in Korea.
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