:werd: In Taiwan they have something similiar to the swashtika and its a religious thing. But its reversed so it isn't the same thing. However I still didn't like it.:down:

 

I wouldn't put it past Rappers to start wearing iced out platinum swastikas around dey neck yo!

 

jep. it was a buddhist symbol LOOOONG before the nazi's adopted it. ****en nazis. its also in native american art, interestingly enough.

leave it to the chinese to do something retarded like that, tho (yes, i'm chinese). i wonder how many people in hong kong are walking around looking like nazis.

 

its reversed of that and was around long before the swashtikas

 

blah. symbolism at it's worst. We talked about this in one of those college courses I didn't finish. it ended up with people who felt that since the symbol is associated with a political party that was put into power and caused the deaths of millions, that the symbol itself was just as bad as saying nazi.

Meanwhile other people figure it's just a symbol, and it only means what you feel it means. Some weren't so easily influenced by history and feel that it's just a symbol and there's no meaning to it.

I think they just picked the wrong friggin military to use in thier campaign. use the Chinese red army, if that's sort of legal. Or use an American army, or russian, or english, or any other world army past or present... but nazi attire. jesus. The symbol is one thing. I can live with that since "backwards" or "forwards" I think it looks the same. lol. but the eagle and all the third reich gear... have some tact you silly bishes. :down:

 

See the book "The Gentle Swaztika" by Manwoman. The symbol is actually a sign of good fortune and love. It's been used for thousands and thousands of years in religions as varied from Christianity to Zaoism. The earliest Christian symbols were the Swaztika. Der Fuhrer used this symbol as it contrasted everything he stood for and wanted the shock value.

 

I think the swastika is used in Turkish culture, is it not?

 

read my above post.