“I am Not a Nazi” Swastika.

• Aramax
  April 3rd, 2007 at 1:33 am

  When you look at the history of the Nazi and find out why they use the Swastika as a symbol of their party… one could come to the conclusion that it was all plotted in advance.

  Hitler used it because it was some sort of Aryan symbol ( Proto-Indo-Iranians ) and he did it because he had trouble recruiting iranians and indians in his army. It was “Join us or be labeled as ennemy by the rest of the world” but they refused in most part to join anyway.

  Today you can see how the media is using this at their advantage and try to associate Iranians and Indians to the Nazi just because of a 3500 years old symbol.

• Lasse
  April 3rd, 2007 at 2:41 am

  There we see what effective branding can do to a symbol.

• AD
  April 3rd, 2007 at 9:46 am

  My parents collect books and have a pre WWII set of Kipling Books decorated by swastikas on the spines. They have kept the quite valuable set, but the books always made me vaguely uncomfortable. Even though clearly not related to Nazism at all the symbol is so associated with such pure evil, it is hard to separate it. It is interesting how symbols can be hijacked and corrupted and how potent a force they can be. Interesting in Asia the swastika is still used frequently. Check out the wikipedia entry for some interesting modern usages.

• H8
  April 3rd, 2007 at 10:23 am

  Same thing with the Confederate flag. It has no ties what so ever with racism in its true meaning. In fact, something they don’t teach you in school, the civil war wasn’t so much about slavery as it was the south realizing that they were producing more money for the north than the north was for itself. Nor did the war stop slavery. The industrial revolution rendered slaves obsolete.
  In much the same way that Hitler gave the swastika a tie to Nazi Germany, ill witted rednecks plastering confederate flags all over their kitty killer monster trucks, and running around screaming racist slang gives it another, less truthful meaning.

  Just so everyone knows, I’m not racist, I hate all races equally, and to any “pure blood” whites, or blacks, or any other race, I got some sad news…
  There ’s no such thing as a pure blood line anymore, so your superiority complex has just been cured…

• H8
  April 3rd, 2007 at 10:28 am

  Oh, and just for the record, the only way the Swastika could be seen as a racist symbol is if you believe that Judaism is a race rather than a religion. In which case you’re an idiot, and may as well go hang out with the afore mentioned rednecks… Yes, I’m lumping skin heads and the Aryan nation into that redneck group too. Its meaning is power, not hate…

• Dan
  April 3rd, 2007 at 12:15 pm

  This is a building on a Navy base near San Diego. One has to wonder what the architects were thinking.

  http://www.google.com/maps?q=Coronado,+CA,+USA&ie=UTF8&z=19&ll=32.6759 96,-117.157551&spn=0.001646,0.00339&t=h&om=1

• MisterTrilby
  April 3rd, 2007 at 4:52 pm

  I think anyone that tries to use the swastika as a peace symbol these days is horribly naive. And it can be a racist symbol - the Nazis weren’t just after the Jews you know. Blacks, gypsies, homosexuals, Catholics…

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