The looneys are so afraid of it, even in its proper historical context, that art work on model kits of Luftwaffe planes have it removed. For example:
Real Stukas:
1:48 kit art with swastika removed.
Notice the tail does not have the swastika on it.
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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No.
This is made up cancel culture at its best. In the Western world, it is a symbol of death camps. If you’re not into western culture you should leave.
Doesn’t make sense. I don’t know what they’re mad about.
People make big things out of everything now.
Perhaps insensitive but technically correct. For a few thousand years before Hitler and his ilk screwed it up the swastika wa a symbol of good luck or prosperity. The word “swastika” itself is sanskrit.
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Correct, nonetheless.
The looneys are so afraid of it, even in its proper historical context, that art work on model kits of Luftwaffe planes have it removed. For example:
Real Stukas:
1:48 kit art with swastika removed.
Notice the tail does not have the swastika on it.
Heads would explode if some of these people were to go into some of the older buildings in downtown Detroit. On the campus of Wayne State University there’s an older building near Cass and Woodward that has an older Art Deco style in the lobby, including tile work where the swastika is present and repeated.
The older I get, the more I can’t stand people in general.
I bet if a child wore a shirt with a swastika to that school, they would be permanently expelled.
The difference in the Swastika and an Indian symbol is the direction of rotation.
That is True.
the NAZI one runs in a different direction than the ancient ones
The ancient ones have always run in both directions. Do a search for "ancient swastikas" and you will find:
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Nope. See my post 11.
What a crock! The nation is ruled by scared pansies.
We truly live in an idiocracy.
If they find the kid that did it, maybe he should be killed in the name of the beloved community since he clearly has no regard for it. [/s!]
My Lord!
The Swastika sits on its point and is a symbol of nazism.
In Asia the same design sits flat on a side. I have it on my great grandmother’s lamp.
In my college days, there was an antique mart that was open every weekend. One of the vendors was a used bookseller. I remember browsing her collection and picked up and old battered Rudyard Kipling anthology of Kipling’s India stories. I remember flipping through it and noting the pages bordered with swastikas, in a book published a decade or two before anybody ever heard of nazism.
It exists in both. with or without the indial .
Funny how the Red Sun Rising flag, Katanna sword and anything written in Japanese for tattoos are so cool to the same people who are triggered by anything close to Nazi Germany. I’m guessing that taught history no longer covers much of WWII and the atrocities of Germany’s most powerful ally.
The principal gave an acceptable answer at the beginning. Perhaps she confused some parents with her additional remarks, given with intent to be open minded. Whoever has voted to suspend her, is making an impulsive, rather stupid mistake. I would start looking a different school district to work for.
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