Originally Posted by
SpringHeeledJack
The symbol, in all iterations has been around for many thousands of years used in many different world religions. The National Socialist Party that came to power in Germany decided to tilt it and make it their own.representing the qualities desired to defend and put forward the cause of the Aryan race. Sadly due to the horrors of WW2 and the emotional charge instilled in people because of this association ANY Swastika is immediately associated with the Nazi Hakenkreutz, no matter how different in design, colour or form.
Whilst I agree that as a symbol, the associations are too strong to be workable because of sensitivities, it is a shame that something that has been around since before the Nazi Party, in the case of the Finnish and Latvian forces, and for millennia in religions should be quashed.
Well said. On this side of the pond there has been a big controversy about the "OK" sign you might with the right thumb and forefinger. It's been used my whole life (and presumably for generations before that) to simply signal "things are OK". But then some white supremacists started using it as a sort of 'gang sign' - so now the woke crowd has declared anyone who flashes the OK sign - no matter how innocently - is automatically a vile racist.
WTF!
I'm just waiting for some woke idiot to declare the "thumbs up" signal to be racist or otherwise vile
