i guess it was a hindu symbol first..and i positive thing

since prince "charming" (sarcasm) wore that outfit, i guess he pissed people off and now they want to ban anything to do with the swastika..however, it was a hindu symbol first

i was listening to NPR on my ride home last night..twas interesting
http://history1900s.about.com/cs/swastika/a/swastikahistory.htm

theres a girl on my campus who is from tanzania and she has a necklace that has a swastika on it. she gets so much shit for wearing but she refuses to take it off. but she has balls to wear a necklace like that in a predominatly jewish area.

from what she told me the necklace has been in her family and has been passed down and what not.

native americans used a "backwards" one for some symbol of life/the sun

the_reverend said:

no we didn't.

in your dreams.

you ever notice one of the levels in the first Zelda is a shaped like a Swastika.

The swastika goes both ways. When its pointing counter clockwise its the "sun wheel" representing life and fertility. When its pointing clockwise (the version the nazis butchered) its a symbol of absolute power. Each arch represents the hammer of Thor. And yes the native americans used the counterclockwise version too. So there. Swastikas are cool.

it was a rune symbol for the vikings

i think tom used to wear swastikas when he went to his "meetings" at night. It was reallly strange, he was always dressed up in this odd looking white sheet costume, never could fiqure it out.

Tom? A closed minded nazi? Never!

The swastika as a sunwheel is almost a universal symbol. The Japanese used to use it too (prior to WWII) in addition to the Norse, Native Americans, Hindus, Aztecs, etc.

I think it's funny that white supremists use a symbol based in a religion they would like to wipe out if they had their way...

There's a building in Medford, Ma built around 1900 that uses Swastikas as its main decorative flair, and they point clockwise. I think they're trying to imply that the sub shop and thai place in the building will crush all of my other dining choices.

dunwichnli said:

Indeed... It's a shame that a symbol can gain such automatic negative stigma for one perverted use of it, when it has had uses in virtually every culture of the world. The cross or sickle and hammer stand as much for genocide as does the swastika, yet there is no negative stigma attached to those symbols - political "correctness" is very corky.

yep yep.

my favorite ironic swastika use is in the Great Gatsby; Wolfsheim (I think that's his name) is Jewish, and works for (owns? I haven't read it in years) the "Swastika Trading Company" or something.

saw an article in Juxtapoz magazine a couple years ago about the swazy, apparently it was a very popular symbol in American advertising up until ww2, they had pictures of old coke ads and nabisco ads and kids toys with that shit all over 'em, aswell as native american blankeys and an old picture of an all girl ice hockey team from the US with big swazys knit into the front of thier sweaters, pretty funny shit

everyone uses the sawstika I like to use it as mundalfari and as the celtic protectyion cross

I mean my stricly catholic aunt has one above her door i think nothing is wrong with that do you?


my take is it is a double standard, the nazis used the iron cross too if not more than the swastika, how many people died with from some army with the cross on thier arms or sheilds.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika

that will bassically tll you more than i can type

damnose said:

When I had to read that book in 10th grade a bunch of faggot kids in my class started calling F. Scott Fitzgerald a racist because of that company. In response our teacher did a fucking waste of time unit on anti-semitism and I had to read Night for the 3rd time in three years. Fuck Night and fuck Elie Wiesel.

the_reverend said:

I use a "forwards" one for a symbol of jew hating.

damnose said:

my mother named me Scott after F. Scott Fitzgerald. She loves Gatsby

I wear my swastika to show my love for mankind! see everyone hilter was a senceitive man

Who said Manson Didn't know what he was doing when getting that Tatoo, go figure ..

sometime within the next few months i'm getting a tattoo of a lotus flower on each wrist and i don't know if i'm going to include a swastika inside each one or not. it's me really wanting to include them vs everyone being gay about swastikas

BobNOMAAMRooney said:

oh man, Elie Wiesel. I go to BU, so I can't escape him. He gets paid far too much to appear on their professor emeritus list and give two or three lectures per year, while I'll probably be paying back my loans until I'm 40.

Surviving genocide + publicity whoring = profit. Anyone want to try to kill off every Irish-Italian-American, so I can write a book about my experience and make millions?

damnose said:

What really fucking pissed me off about that fucker was around the time the second Intifadah began and he went on CNN in support of the construction of a cement wall around the West Bank and advocated rounding up the Palestinians and either deporting them or putting them in prison camps. The only thing the piece of shit learned from history is that it can be used to as a blank-check of guilt.

Plus there's some debate if he was even in a camp during the second world war. Prior to publishing Night he claimed to have been liberated from Dachau, after the book came out his story had him being liberated from Aucshwitz or Buchenwald.

save_swastikas

lj community much general info there

i like swaztikas more than i have ever liked any jew..we should have a holocaust revival and kill a few million more of those hook nosed greedy jew pigs..hitler was right..every jew should fuckin die

i like that book "night"