U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
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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?
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.
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