[mikegi]

I don't see anything wrong with having the swastika glyph in there since it isn't a Nazi creation. What would Microsoft do if I protested the inclusion of a crescent moon in one of their fonts?

[isthisnickcool]

I know someone has a "just damn" list. Looks like we need a "just dumb" list.

Microsoft is being absurd.

[mylife]

I notice that Microsoft has no problem placing the "rainbow" symbol prominently on MSN Messenger

[VU4G10]

The Swastika is an ancient Sanskrit symbol found on rings of devoted monks and priests from India and Tibet today. The symbol represents the life force, a powerful energy that is in each of us and is connected to the God or Goddess. Unfortunately, Hitler abused this beautiful symbol representing the life force.

[Gunslingr3]

[firehunter]

You think that's something?
The other day I was in a hobby store looking at model aircraft for Christmas, when I came along Revell's model of the Hindenburg. I built this same exact model as a kid.
But, something was different...I didn't pick up on it at first, then it hit me like a rock...
THEY REMOVED THE SWASTIKAS!!
Am I a big Nazi fan? No, but this is history we're talking about. You don't have the right to NOT be offended.
The PC crowd really needs to get over themselves.

[Crowcreek]

Dear Mr. Gates:

Stamp it out! STAMP IT OUT!

Thanks- Crowcreek

[Cicero]

As I recall, the Nazi swastika accidentally got the old Buddhist symbol backwards, so there is a difference. Although no doubt with something this poisonous most people will choose to remove both.

I hope MS will also remove any hammers and sickles that happen to have crept into their symbol sets.

[Liberal Classic]

Silliness ping.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

But not to worry, CNN has no plans to remove the hammer-and-sickle emblem from their stuff.

[Sockdologer]

"Techie! There's a swastika in my font!"
"Shh, quiet, or the others will want one too."

[Born Conservative]

Microsoft Corp. said on Friday that its latest version of Office software inadvertently contained a font featuring two swastikas

It's Bush's fault...

[Dante3]

Swastikas appeared long ago in India. They have been used as a good luck symbol long before Hitler. There is also a town of Swastika in Canada where reportedly the saying is, "To hell with Hitler. We had it first."

What if another monster, such as Hitler, uses the sign of the cross or the Star of David? Would then these symbols also be removed?

All this means is that we acknowledge their right to acquisition these symbols, and once again the bad guys win.

[xrp]

JD

[aruanan]

A form of the swastika has been used in the Buddhist religion to symbolize the feet or footprints of the Buddha. The symbol, which was also used widely in the ancient world including Mesopotamia, Scandinavia, India and the Americas, became common in China and Japan with the spread of Buddhism.

The swastika is thought to be a symbolic representation of a comet approaching head-on, a graphic remnant of a celestial close encounter.

[antiRepublicrat]

This isn't a new thing. There was a controversy in the 80s in IIRC New Mexico where the symbol for the school's yearbook was the Indian swastika. It was in a heavily Indian area, so it was considered quite appropriate until the modern-day Nazis in the form of PC activists complained.

[Delphinium]

Maybe they want people to forget Hitler.

[N. Theknow]

MIcrosoft might do well to check this out.

Swastika Postcard 1907

[N. Theknow]

An excerpt from this site:The Swastika and the Nazis

It is easy to understand and sympathize with Rabbi Silverman's sentiment. But ripping off swastikas from buildings, purging art and history books from swastikas, or simply ignoring them, is neither a scientific, nor a rational way to deal with this subject. As graphic designer Henry Dreyfuss put it, "the fact that an ignominious fanatic placed a Swastika on his battle flag is insufficient reason for ignoring this symbol's historic significance." The Nazis and neoNazis have no registered copyrights on the use of the swastika. They stole this symbol from mankind and use it for their evil purposes. Allowing the Nazis an exclusive privilege for using this symbol is equivalent to an act of moral cowardice.

The time is ripe to redeem this beautiful and enigmatic symbol, taking it from under Nazi control. We must bring it back to the illustrious place it deserves among other similar symbols in the long history of mankind.

Also note that the symbol of old was with the arms of the cross facing right and the Nazis have the arms facing left. Interesting.

[HamiltonJay]

Swastica's have been around for eons, were used by native americans and other things as well... while they be best recognized as symbols of the Nazi party... it is hardly the only time they were ever used....

HOw damned paranoid are you that a mere symbols existence offends you?

[FLAMING DEATH]

Because, you see, history never really happened.