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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.
No thanks to public education and multiculturalism.
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.
Yeah, Hitler ruined it for those cute little mustaches, too.
Whatever it’s orientation, whatever it’s pre-Nazi history, ....the fact that TENS OF MILLIONS WERE MURDERED under that symbol—in living memory—should cause us to give pause.
People are right to be upset at the owners of this store.
The “Hakencreutz” (German for Swastika, meaning “hooked cross”) has, and rightly should have, a permanent evil association to it—at least outside of the historic Indian or Navajo context.
Of course in these cases the swastika is the same swastika as that used by the Nazis - not a harmless Buddhist or Amerind symbol. The German National Socialists were a subset of the monstrous Left Wing Totalitarianism that engulfed much of the world in the 20th Century.