This is gonna sound supremely insanely haterist of me but hear me out:
If someone is talking about swastikas in the context of naziism and antisemitic hate crimes, you do not need to bring up the fact that it is actually a Buddhist or Hindu symbol of good luck or prosperity or peace. We know that. We know. You have eyes, you can see that those are not the swastikas we are talking about. Please please please can you use an iota of reading comprehension. I don't care that this is the piss on the poor site, you can choose to improve yourself.
It's so funny/neg, because I've seen this discussion when people have tattoos of them, too. Like, who do you think is getting tattoos of a swastika? Buddhists and Hindus know that this would be a bad fucking idea.
"Oh, but you see this picture etched on the desk isn't angled right to be the nazi symbol-" I no longer trust that anyone arguing this really believes this. You know, you fucking know.
hindus do actually get tattoos of the swastika. hindus paint swastikas onto walls and clothes and hindu children etch them onto school tables. i know this because i'm hindu and i've drawn the swastika with ball pens at the back of my hand many times. the holocaust was one of the worst things to happen in human history, but that doesnt give you pass to act as if--and im so sorry if this sounds harsh--the world revolves around you. just because nazis used the hooked cross on their flags doesnt mean anyone else who's using the sign (not the hooked cross. i mean the swastika.) is a fascist bigot.
oh, and on that note, hindus have been literally begging yall to refer to it as the hooked cross. i personally tried to ask europeans why they're calling it the swastika and not the hooked cross, when hitler (and the nazis, iirc) literally referred to the sign as hooked cross, and they piled on me. yall keep clinging to the false translation made by a white man for whatever reason, refusing to use the actual vocab used by the genociders--and yes, i am actually going to whine about vocab because words and points of view matter.
what nazis used was not the swastika. it was the hooked cross. acting as if anyone and everyone who uses the swastika and/or defends its use is a monster among humans is wildly immature.
If someone is talking about swastikas in the context of naziism and antisemitic hate crimes, you do not need to bring up the fact that it is actually a Buddhist or Hindu symbol of good luck or prosperity or peace. We know that. We know. You have eyes, you can see that those are not the swastikas we are talking about. Please please please can you use an iota of reading comprehension.
i dont know mate, its probably because those people see you spitting out the name swastika and feel the need to defend their own culture and identity (i'd say religion too, but i see sanatan (what yk as hinduism) as a philosophy and not a religion but thats a whole other thing entirely)? because you keep using the word swastika? ever thought of that? because hindus are already oppressed in their own lands, are hate crimed every now and then, and centuries of oppression and hinduphobia have made them incredibly sensitive to such things? that they're just trying to take care of the culture they managed to save? how would you feel if someone referring to israel's faults--whatever they are--kept saying "star of david" this and "star of david" that? would you not feel the need to correct them, defend your identity?
"Oh, but you see this picture etched on the desk isn't angled right to be the nazi symbol-" I no longer trust that anyone arguing this really believes this.
if you wish to isolate yourself in a bubble of anybody whoever dares to use this exact symbol in whatever angle is a BIGOT and a NAZI, then go right ahead, i suppose.
true, h¡tler called that thing a hakenkreuz, the english media referred it to the nazi hooked cross, in various European countries it is still called hooked cross in various languages, but for some reason, Americans insist calling it swastika, which itself is an auspicious word. That said, all the nazis who try to appropriate from Hinduism or Buddhism while intimidating Jewish people, may they get cursed to hell.
BTW this is why “Nazi” is sometimes used as a racial slur towards Hindus and Indians, and falsely accusing us of being Nazis is one of the many flavors of hate crimes against us.
What makes it funnier is India is one of the few countries in the world where Jews were never persecuted against…
Indeed, Hindu king gave shelter to Baghdadi Jewish refugees, Sassoon family was one of them. They lived and thrived in India. India also gave shelter to Polish refugees in WW2. Not many can say that they have given shelter to many communities, be it Iranian Zoroastrians, Baghdadi Jews, Syriac Christians, Uzbek and Uyghur Muslims, Tibetan Buddhists, Hakka Chinese etc.
its not 'for whatever reason'. they specifically chose to call it swastika instead of hakenkreuz so that christianity's image would not be tainted. They placed the stain onto a pagan symbol to keep their image clean and left us to explain ourselves to the world for the rest of eternity
