QR-Swastika-Avoider

Post by simonw » Wed, Jul 15, 2026, 9:50 AM UTC

Razengan wrote: post #49

simonw wrote: post #15

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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.

This perfectly valid comment by slipperybeluga is still showing up as [dead] for some reason so I'll repost it for them: > 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 indoc…

Post by daneel_w » Wed, Jul 15, 2026, 12:23 PM UTC

simonw wrote: post #51

Razengan wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This perfectly valid comment by slipperybeluga is still showing up as [dead] for some reason so I'll repost it for them: > 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 indoc…

That's some pretty heavy "whataboutism" right there: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism

Post by Razengan » Wed, Jul 15, 2026, 5:27 PM UTC

simonw wrote: post #54

daneel_w wrote: post #53

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It's precisely what you're doing. You just insist that Western events in the last century are more important, more "valid", and must take precedence. "A billion people in Asia use, live with and benefit from this symbol on a daily basis, since millennia." - "OK but what about the atrocities in WW2?"

All I'm doing is here is saying that there's nothing inherently bad about someone deciding they don't want a particular symbol to randomly show up in their generated QR codes. The pushback I'm getting for expressing that opinion is bizarre.