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U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
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so the most hateful symbol ever made, the swastika, is now just potentially divisive… sweet….
i will say that the noose has a lot of meaning other than referring to lynchings… pretty popular in suicide and any other type of execution….
it’s certainly used as a hate symbol but it’s not always that.
e.g. Hangtown, California (although they did remove the noose from their city logo)
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maybe they changed it because the swastika has much older cultural and religious meaning elsewhere?
No, the swastika only has one meaning. It was changed from the original symbol, and so that original symbol is still safe. The swastika is the swastika, and it means nothing but hate and is worn by no one but cunts.
Edit: Lot of swastika apologists on this site...
The Nazi swastika is, not the others.
This isn't really accurate. I agree with your sentiment on some level... But the swastika has existed for thousands of years in many different forms in many different cultures. It was co opted for sure, but not really changed. I agree that it is predominantly used as a hate symbol in modern culture, but it's not quite as simple as you are putting it here, imho. Ancient Buddhist or Hindu temples shouldn't be torn down because of a madman that stole a symbol nonsensically that had nothing to do with Aryan superiority. Might be nice if someday it could be rehabbed but certainly today, in America especially it is generally used as only meaning one thing. Not trying to be pedantic, it's just not quite as cut and dry as you're representing.
I think you are advocating for the wrong devil here, friend.
In the Indian context, the reverse swastika (counter-clockwise, or sauvastika) symbolizes night, the goddess Kali, and tantric practices, while the right-facing swastika represents day, the sun (Surya), and auspiciousness. Both symbols are ancient and sacred in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism, but the left-facing sauvastika is specifically associated with the night and Kali in Hindu tradition.
Not disagreeing with current meaning behind the swastika, but it was appropriated from Sanskrit; it was not created to be hateful.
It wasn't appropriated from Sanskrit, the design was a popular across the Indo-European cultures for millenia but happened to survive into modernity in Sanskrit. The Nazis ripped it from artifacts being found mainly in Germanic and Celtic archeology sites, they also ripped a bunch of other symbols but most of those were dropped by the start of the war, they also made the black sun symbol (I just woke up from a nap and can't rember the name) based off the solar symbols of ancient Neolithic to Bronze age Old European cultures.
It’s still used today in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism.
It’s not the reversed, 45-degree angle one the Nazis used to set theirs apart.
The tilted and reversed doesn't matter, the original one is allowed to be reversed and tilted as well, it's juat usually not tilted.
i hope someday that will be the first thing people think of when they see it, again
Now do Lynchburg, VA.
ok: Lynchburg was founded in 1757 by John Lynch
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching#Etymology
read your own link… it wasn’t about murdering black people, originally….
i’m not not saying it’s just cool to have a hangman’s noose t-shirt in america, given the rest of history. But america kinda had a thing with hanging all sorts of people.
I did.
The verb "to lynch"(like the city of Lynchburg) comes from the same family. Literally. Charles Lynch is older brother to John Lynch (abolitionist and founder of Lynchburg).
and they were lynching loyalists during the american revolution… what’s your point?
huh. Grew up in VB. TIL.
Any relation to David?
i’m assuming he was a direct descendant… just because i want to