Fuck this hellworld. Fuck everything. How can a person say something so fucking ignorant. That's all.
Just to add the person that said this wasn't Hindu or a religious minority.
Yeah, I'm like, were they a Hindu saying this or am I just being optimistic lmao
Luckily not a close friend or anything, just a random person online. The topic came up when they started discussing the iron cross and I pushed back. It's just amazing how many Nazis are actually out there if you ask any basic questions. In my country (South Africa) I swear half the white people here are outright Nazis. It's led to me having almost 0 white friends as a white person, and stealing and burning a bunch of old flags. I'm just so fucking tired of it.
"B..bbb...bu...but the modern German army still uses the iron cross" - some chud. No that's a shit reason.
And to avoid confusion, it was an old apartheid South Africa flag, not a Nazi flag or anything. This dude tried to hang it in his garage and it quickly disappeared if you know what I mean.
I'm just wearing this armband and doing a salute to reclaim them from the nazis!
There are swastikas in native american weaving, as well as the other examples other posters have brought up. Yeah its a shame. After we bury the last Nazi and institute world communism then we can rehabilitate the swastika. Until then cryptofascists can go fuck themselves.
Tell that dipshit that the Dineh people retired the swastika in solidarity with the Jewish people in a formal ceremony so if they can do it and it's literally sacred in their culture, he can fucking do it.
Person is probably just a chud or fash, so not going to even try.
It's a random person online, punching someone though a screen hasn't been invented yet.
Ok brb, going to use the power of Juche to teleport to their home and beat them up.
It's not a completely abstract issue, though. In Japan the Hindu Swastika is used to mark Buddhist temples, including on maps and street signs. There was an actual debate in Japan a couple years ago over whether or not the Japanese government should spend the resources to remove all map and street sign swastikas in Tokyo to prevent any incidents at the 2020 Olympics (they weren't going to chisel any 800-year old swastikas off of temples). I'm not actually sure what came of that in the end.
I don't think it's entirely fair to just condemn either side of the debate as ignorant.
It is if they're not arguing from a Hindu perspective, this person was defending the iron cross and other symbols
Oh yeah, then you just encountered a bad faith fash shithead.
Hindus, Buddhists and other smaller religions still use the swastika, it's a very ancient symbol found in almost all ancient civilizations. There are plenty of swastikas found in temples in India and China, you're talking about a huge population who don't see the Swastika as a Nazi symbol.
the nazi swastika is a false swastika lets just call it the windmill of hate and call it a day
As I said in a previous comment they weren't arguing from that perspective, they were defending other symbols like the iron cross