Is THIS really necessary?

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Azdrubel wrote:

Just FYI, it´s an inherent part of history that things change. Burning women, beating children, slavery, peonage... all those were considered good things some time ago. Doesn´t mean they´re good today, does it?

The swastika is still used, see Hindu reference, as a good symbol. While those bad things are in the past...so yes, history does change things.

I must be a bad bad person. I completely missed the swastikas. I thought the OP was complaining about a Templar on Viagra.

I'll go back to my corner now.

Censorship creates power.
Fear creates power.
By allowing ourselves to be effected, we give symbols and words power.
Words and symbols like these are meaningless otherwise.

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Reizoko wrote:

OP is probably german. Germans love to overract to everything concerning Hitler/world war 2.
I agree with the majority in this thread. Firstly, the person opening the trade thread probably didn't have any bad intentions. Secondly there's more than just one meaning to the swastika.

Hi,

i am German and i would like to add, that not the current Generation tend to overract cause of those Symbols, but we are aware of our History and this means to take the responsibility of History with us. This Symbol is corrupted by Hitler and nothing else.

And please ask some Jewish if they are happy to be remembered.... could also be a interesting Answer.

BR

Overreacting German reporting in.

It's true that we tend to react like that when it comes to topics like hitler/nazis/jew-jokes, whatever, but I'd rather have it that way, than racism and fashistic behaviour all over the place (which is NOT the case in this community)

And concerning the swastika/swastika-derivate used in the trade thread:

C'mon guys, it may have had a thousand different meanings for other thousands of years and it's a shame that people abuse certain symbols for their own cruelties, but everyone knows what background the swastika implies nowadays, this is not some hindu trade market, it's a globalized forum, filled with educated people.

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arekone wrote:

C'mon guys, it may have had a thousand different meanings for other thousands of years and it's a shame that people abuse certain symbols for their own cruelties, but everyone knows what background the swastika implies nowadays, this is not some hindu trade market, it's a globalized forum, filled with educated people.

Hindu trade market and educated people comparison. The level of ignorance is high.

While I speculate the intent of the OP in that trade thread, having nothing else related to antisemitism would give argue that only the people stating such viewed it as that and nothing else. The swastika, tilted the way it is in that post...has NO MEANING WHATSOEVER to antisemitism...it's not even tilted the same as was on the Nazi Germany flag.

Is this post really Necessary??

this is not a hakenkreuz. So whats the problem?

OP stop crying like a girl about nothing

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arekone wrote:

Overreacting German reporting in.

It's true that we tend to react like that when it comes to topics like hitler/nazis/jew-jokes, whatever, but I'd rather have it that way, than racism and fashistic behaviour all over the place (which is NOT the case in this community)

While I do agree that it's better to overreact than to actually have rasicm etc I still think that both solutions are bad.
I can understand if you react like that if someone is actually racist, but in cases where it's just about a symbol there's no reason to do so in my opinion.

By the way I (the guy who stated that germans often overract to this kind of stuff) am german too. I don't like the way germans deal with their history though. Especially the young generation that had literally NOTHING to do with what happened in the 30s and 40s. Not their 'fault' they were born german.