Posted on 10/02/2024 2:33:24 AM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
An elementary school principal is on administrative leave, and the Bellevue School District is now investigating after parents complained about comments she made after a swastika was found...
In an email addressed to "The Phantom Lake Elementary Community" Monday, the principal described a swastika as a symbol of hate and as a symbol of peace. She apologized for not acknowledging sooner that a swastika in some cultures is a symbol of 'peace and prosperity,' including she said in ‘Buddhism and Hinduism.’
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As an aside, I understand that the Bellamy salute was not uncommon until the Germans made it their own.
There certainly seems to be a dearth of deep thinkers these days. Lots of superficial thought processes. This is the best period EVER regarding the availability of information in human history. But it has made people lazy. Information is easier to get, there is more of it, but a lot of people are not digging too deep for it. They accept whatever is easiest to get. Which makes them susceptible to manipulation by people who use their laziness against them. Our generations are used to having to work a little harder for our information. That has made us more discriminating consumers of information than younger generations.
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I guess Japanese militarism is more culturally acceptable than Prussian militarism.
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The Brown Scare grows larger and larger.
Yep. During the height of the Enlightenment and the resurgence of neoclassicism in the late 1700s, Jacques Louis David painted The Oath of the Horatii which became a well known icon and symbol of patriotism and loyalty unto death and features that salute. Italian fascisti glommed onto it due to its portrayal of Romania greatness, and Hitler, as an art student, would have no doubt also been familiar with the painting.
Well here we go. Some idiot is going to take screen shots of all the swastikas in this thread and go post them on all the left wing boards as “evidence” That FR is a Nazi enclave.
The runes and other symbols of the Third Reich were borrowed from more ancient cultures.
Most sentient kids can understand this.
People need to stop kneejerk reacting and start thinking.
The only lesson these kids learned from this was to be afraid, don't ask questions, don't explore history, and condemn anyone who deviates from the party line.
These are NOT good lessons for Americans to be learning.
A friend bought a home with authentic 19th century floor rugs in the dining room. The pattern was swastika on the edges. They tossed it out immediately. It had been in the home since built in 1870. It was not a swastika of hate symbol.
In the movie “Das Boot” they manipulated the German flags such that the Swastikas weren’t visible.
In general, it’s not wise to say anything remotely complimenting when it comes to nazi Germany and associated.
It’s a history event in most of our heads....I think if one really sat down and thought about what they did, it would sink in that they were monsters.
But so were the Japanese.
The death rate was much higher among American soldiers in Japanese camps.
The attempted extermination of entire peoples by Germany is quite sick.
BOTH countries SUCKED at the time, is my poetic point!!
We had that edition of Kipling in my house when I was growing up.
I remember, probably about 10-15 years ago sitting back and watching James Stewart's "Mr. Smit Goes to Washington." There's one scene where Jimmy Stewart first comes to the city and is overwhelmed by all the monuments and buildings, and there's a rapid montage of the Washington Monument, Lincoln Memorial, etc. Subconsciously, I was anticipating an image of the Marine Corps Memorial and when then the montage ended without it, and I consciously realized that the film had been made before WWII even happened.
This is misdirected outrage based on ignorance. The Buddhist and Hindi version which means peace and prosperity is oriented differently from the Nazi version.
True. The 45th Oklahoma infantry shoulder patch was a swastika until WW2. It was a symbol commonly used by American indians. But then they replaced it with a thunderbird.
There are (or were) two houses in Portland, one on either side of SE Division Street around 24th, that have swastikas built into their brick chimneys in brick of contrasting colors. Last time I saw them, 20-some years ago, one had had the chimney painted over to make its swastika less visible. For all I know the houses have since been demolished in the name of political correctness, but I hope not.
We also had that book when I was a kid. I remember asking my dad about the swastikas, which was when I learned that the symbol was much older than Nazism.
There used to be a town called Swastika in New Mexico, though Google Earth no longer lists it. GE does show a place called Swastika in NW New York, not far west of Burlington, VT, though it appears to be a farm of some sort rather than a town.
The IQ thing is, pretty much, common knowledge now.
I think we know what time it is.
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