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I'm all for it, but what kicked it off?

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[–] pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

They might be using the wrong swastika but I get the sentiment

[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 4 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Explain please. All the ones I see in the image are shaped like four adjoined letter L's which is the same way around that the Nazis used. Or are you referring to the fact that most of them aren't stood on a corner, diamond-wise?

[–] facelessbs@lemmy.world 7 points 17 hours ago (1 children)
[–] pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I totally forgot it's also mirrored. Thanks for pulling it up

[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Yes and no. The one the Nazis used was / is also a symbol used in Asia. (And really, everywhere. It's a fairly basic pattern.) The Nazis used it because of their obsession with Aryans. Sometimes it's at an angle, sometimes it's not.

Generally in the west, unless it's on a statue of budda, any swastika-ish symbol since the ~1930s is going to be a reference to Nazis though.

[–] Numuruzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I reckon it's the latter, I noticed it too. Nazis are the only ones who use it tilted like that, as far as I know.

[–] PapaStevesy@lemmy.world 0 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Let's be real here, they're the only ones that use it at all anymore.

[–] SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works 1 points 15 hours ago

You know, the subcontinent has around a billion people on it? Who see it scattered all around, for thousands of years.

[–] OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

Every Hindu and many Buddhists disagree. Way to just ignore almost a billion people dude. The world isn't just the west.

[–] ristoril_zip@lemmy.zip 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

see it's interesting to me because I thought it was the way it looks like it should spin that matters, with the Buddhist one looking like it should spin clockwise and the Nazi one looking like it should spin counter clockwise. Is it the 45 degree tilt that makes the big difference?

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 3 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

It's the direction the legs go. Nazis mirrored the eastern one and then tilted it 45°.

[–] Venat0r@lemmy.world 8 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (2 children)

Its used both 卐 or 卍 ways in different non-nazi examples: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika

Plenty of modern nazis don't know how to draw it though, so you can never be sure...

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[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago

antifa made those to make us look stupid!

/s

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 1 points 15 hours ago

This is glorious. Fucking idiots