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It isn't hurting Hindus to run code that ensures a QR code doesn't include that sequence of squares.
The unilateral West-first perspective is a problem.
I'd like to see one that stops accidental generation of strings like 'nakba'.
We need a crate that suggests something inappropriate in QRs instead
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.
Very much not a good reason - in fact, a very bad reason. Conformist, destructive, declining, orwellian...
You are not to speak like the ignorant.
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
Which is also collaboration with the enemy: it is giving it power. (They allow the enemy to determine their culture; also, they allow the low to replace the high.)
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".
It isn't hurting Hindus to run code that ensures a QR code doesn't include that sequence of squares.
No, it's hurting all sensible people.
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.
That is mandated, and actually they are expected to get out of the house educated already (de jure. De facto, it's different, but they should anyway).
> this symbol of hatred and genocide
According to which scum, to which you are confering unduly power?
> has other meanings, too
Those absolutely primary, ! one million times?!
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Simon, let us go to the core: properly developed people do not reason like fools, and they are not to conform to foolery.
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.
> What an incredibly narrow view that completely dismisses the culture and history of the majority of the planet. As others have said, it's still in use in India and China which make up the majority of the population on earth. Rather than discarding their culture and history, we can just stop indoctrinating children year after year on a single point in time and history. A lot of tragedies occurred in the last 100 years. My 13 years of public school education didn't once cover Armenian Genocide, Stalin's forced collectivisation famine deaths, Mao's great famine, Khmer rouge, or the 5 million+ American military caused civilian deaths in the last 100 years. But we covered "the" holocaust every year (even the title treats like it's the only holocaust). Are the political symbols of these other terrible events and actors emblazoned in your mind and if not, why not? Why give it so much power?
> The swastika has thousands of years of history outside this tiny point in time. Used by everyone from native Americans to vikings to indians and east Asians. Silly to have to hide from it and try to destroy it because evil people coopted it in one corner of the earth for < 0.5% of its history.
The conversation here is depressingly juvenile.