Article makes no mention of what 900+ million Hindus may feel about the whole thing. It's possible the author doesn't even know what the swastika is, or that he is willfully ignorant because "Indians and Asians live somewhere else".
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#15Why not reclaim the original usage of the swastika instead of perpetuating the taint? In Asian nations people who have never heard of the Nazis still use the swastika. Do the version of "your parents using slang" to make it uncool
Because you'd need to re-educate hundreds of millions of people, and it's a pretty weak message: "this symbol of hatred and genocide has other meanings, too!"
... and you'll be playing into the hands of people who want to get a swastika tattoo and then pretend they didn't mean any harm by doing so.
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#16Article makes no mention of what 900+ million Hindus may feel about the whole thing. It's possible the author doesn't even know what the swastika is, or that he is willfully ignorant because "Indians and Asians live somewhere else".
It isn't hurting Hindus to run code that ensures a QR code doesn't include that sequence of squares.
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#17Why not reclaim the original usage of the swastika instead of perpetuating the taint? In Asian nations people who have never heard of the Nazis still use the swastika. Do the version of "your parents using slang" to make it uncool
Because you'd need to re-educate hundreds of millions of people, and it's a pretty weak message: "this symbol of hatred and genocide has other meanings, too!" ... and you'll be playing into the hands of people who want to get a swastika tattoo and then pretend they didn't mean any harm by doing so.
Yeah that sounds like a really sound rationale. It's only far more than a billion people to whom the symbol has a powerful and positive meaning. Let's completely ignore that and say that the 80 year old Western perspective is a lot more important.
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#18How about using the term Hakenkreuz or something similar to represent the anti-semitic meaning and stop appropriating the term Swastika?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika
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#19Why not reclaim the original usage of the swastika instead of perpetuating the taint? In Asian nations people who have never heard of the Nazis still use the swastika. Do the version of "your parents using slang" to make it uncool
Because you'd need to re-educate hundreds of millions of people, and it's a pretty weak message: "this symbol of hatred and genocide has other meanings, too!" ... and you'll be playing into the hands of people who want to get a swastika tattoo and then pretend they didn't mean any harm by doing so.
those people are far less numerous than you seem to believe. also, the current far right is not particularly fond of tattoos.
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#20Why not reclaim the original usage of the swastika instead of perpetuating the taint? In Asian nations people who have never heard of the Nazis still use the swastika. Do the version of "your parents using slang" to make it uncool
Because you'd need to re-educate hundreds of millions of people, and it's a pretty weak message: "this symbol of hatred and genocide has other meanings, too!" ... and you'll be playing into the hands of people who want to get a swastika tattoo and then pretend they didn't mean any harm by doing so.
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