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Re: QR-Swastika-Avoider

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Post by ButlerianJihad »

Interestingly, a recent news story on several buildings in Northwest Texas that incorporated swastikas in their design, interviewed some experts who explained that it was specifically the "tilted cross" design that was used in Nazi symbolism, and the non-tilted versions are more likely to be benign, Native American or Asian usages.

https://youtu.be/8uH3gIzqnVM?si=24KFsG85FRJ29Y05

And of course this app gets it wrong, and avoids the benign uses, because it is quite impossible to render a "tilted swastika" image on a QR code! Absurd!

Re: QR-Swastika-Avoider

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Post by pseudohadamard »

bombcar wrote: post #5
rationalist wrote: post #4

I'm not sure I've ever noticed a swastika in a QR code before, but I guess better safe than sorry.

If this exists then logically the inverse can be made …

Was thinking the same thing, although I'd go for penis-shaped QR codes before swastikas, because dick jokes never get old.

Re: QR-Swastika-Avoider

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Post by slipperybeluga »

simonw wrote: post #15
Razengan wrote: post #7

Why 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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Re: QR-Swastika-Avoider

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Post by pseudohadamard »

disillusioned wrote: post #22
pomtom wrote: post #18

How 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

For the very obvious reason that the percentage of population aware of what the term Hakenkreuz means is literal orders of magnitude smaller than those familiar with the term Swastika? I mean, feel free to run a "taking Swastika back" information campaign, but also, you know, good luck.

Also, the Hakenkreuz is a pub in Schweinewalde, Saxony, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tpEXvWUeIw (in German).

Re: QR-Swastika-Avoider

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Post by kgwxd »

daneel_w wrote: post #11

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".

Pretty sure the author doesn't intend to enforce the entire world to run QR generation through this code. I'm not stoked Roblox doesn't let me type my real name and phone number into chat. But I can still go to the playground, and say whatever I want. Those 900+ mill people might appreciate a QR-Swastika-Maximizer. Maybe you should author and host one for them. Be the good you want in the world.

Re: QR-Swastika-Avoider

#36

Post by bombcar »

pseudohadamard wrote: post #32
bombcar wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If this exists then logically the inverse can be made …

Was thinking the same thing, although I'd go for penis-shaped QR codes before swastikas, because dick jokes never get old.

QueeR codes is right there - run with it!

Re: QR-Swastika-Avoider

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Post by BobaFloutist »

Razengan wrote: post #28
simonw wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

There was a time when pentagrams and tattoos of SATAN were edgy and controversial Now it's "ehh" Only silly people still use them unironically and only silly people get offended by them.

Right, because nobody has killed millions of people while representing themselves with a pentagram. The comparison falls flat.

Re: QR-Swastika-Avoider

#39

Post by Razengan »

simonw wrote: post #29
Razengan wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There was a time when pentagrams and tattoos of SATAN were edgy and controversial Now it's "ehh" Only silly people still use them unironically and only silly people get offended by them.

I don't think it's silly to get offended by a swastika tattoo.

You didn't respond to the other commenters.

This reeks of "virtue signaling": Someone trying to show they are morally superior by doing the minimum effort, like blanket banning something. I never heard of swastikas in QR codes being a problem before.

Re: QR-Swastika-Avoider

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Post by Razengan »

BobaFloutist wrote: post #38
Razengan wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There was a time when pentagrams and tattoos of SATAN were edgy and controversial Now it's "ehh" Only silly people still use them unironically and only silly people get offended by them.

Right, because nobody has killed millions of people while representing themselves with a pentagram. The comparison falls flat.

In the last 100 years the USA has bombed more people than all other nations combined.

Japan/Vietnam/Laos/Cambodia + most of the Middle East etc. have more of a valid reason to ban depictions of the American flag, than the West has for co-opting an ancient symbol of peace to mean evil and then refusing to "return" it.

Did you not see the other comments about this or just chose not to respond?

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