Love how you stood up for our usage of the Swastika on that one post.
Tbh stoptheantisemitism is one of those blogs that get really defensive when it comes to Jews and how they are treated, especially because of October 7 and the world's reactions to the Hamas-Israel war, but that doesn't excuse their disrespect. Jews may have been oppressed for centuries but so have hindus, and anyone who doesn't have any knowledge about our own history and culture has no right to call our defense blatant lies.
Even when I was searching for 'swastika tattoos' on google, most of the images that came up were obviously hooked cross tattoos, the ratio literally being 1:9. We need to stand up for ourselves more and promote the disuse of 'swastika' for the hooked cross, especially to ignorant people who don't know shit about Hinduism and Buddhism.
Though, from what I've found, only right wing european christians and most americans actually call it the swastika. Might look into it more, the correlation of the two is an interesting thing to theorize about.
here's a story: when i was in a leftist circle, a georgian referred to the cross as 'swastika' when she was discussing neo-nazis. naive me, thinking i could sort of understand why she kept using that word when describing the cross when she knew--we all knew that its not actually called swastika, asked this exact question.
she, along with other westerners, answered that "thats just how its referred to" or some other bullshit like that, completely misinterpreted my question, and said that i was making a big deal out of it. this was back in 2024.
why am i telling you this? to explain that people dont really care. they dont care what word's being used, because its not their culture on the line. not their identity. not their history. so, whether they refer to it as the hooked cross or the swastik changes nothing, because it doesnt matter to them. it doesnt affect them. hindus have, since oct 7 and well before that, supported jews. the vast majority of us have. because we know what this is like. sure, we don't experience the level of online vitriol jews do in the sense of shoving israel into every topic ever to show how the jew israel is "running the world", or litmus tests in nearly every gathering or things of that sort--but the rest? we get it. we get it intimately. many on hindublr [including myself] have repeatedly spoken against antisemitism. and no, im not asking for flowers or star shaped cookies in congratulations and thanks.
what i am asking for, however, is some common fucking sense and some shame. because genuinely, what the fuck?
me: hindus are oppressed and try to defend our culture and identity to preserve whatever we have left of it, please understand that.
jew hinduphobe: LIAR. BLATANT LIES. SOURCE???????
they acted no differently than an antisemitic, hinduphobic leftist with whom i'd had the exact "hindus are oppressed in india" conversation in december '25, and that hadn't ended well. which is why i didn't engage with the moron's second reblog. it's a peculiar feeling, having to prove to people that you're oppressed. i think i said this in another post. its a very weird and all around unpleasant feeling.
fucking google it, mate. google hindus being burnt alive in bangladesh. google hindus being converted through love jihad. google the kashmiri hindu exodus, for fuck's sake. google hindu temples being trashed--honestly, all over the indian subcontinent, sans maybe nepal and bhutan idk. but of course they wont. of course i, a hindu, yet again have to explain to a piece of shit that i'm oppressed. in my own land. yes, i am, no matter what your western media says. but i have no interest in doing this, and so i blocked them. i'd really rather not engage with assholes who hate me and invalidate my and my people's suffering. its valid to be sensitive to things related to your people when you've been harmed repeatedly, which spottheantisemitism thinks theyre doing--newsflash, thats literally hindus talking about the swastik.
i wasnt even talking about jews. i was talking about hindus and their desperate need to try to explain to people that the hooked cross is not the swastik. if that makes one think that i was "blatantly lying", then fuck you too, mate.
i have, with my own eyes, seen tattoos of the swastik on men's forearms, or on their backs. i liked to draw the swastik wherever when i was a child, because it is a symbol of prosperity that comes form Sanatan. every indian knows that the swastik is omnipresent in india, as it should be. just because some twat on the internet hasn't seen this, or seen our oppression [probably because they dont care enough to fucking look it up before accusing some stranger online of being a "blatant liar"] doesn't mean its not true.
there are some articles in the Hindu American Foundation related to the deliberate mistranslation of mein kampf and how 'hooked cross' was intentionally [mis]translated into 'swastik'. there are even links to the specific mistranslated passages in an article. also, it really doesnt matter who on the political spectrum youre talking about: right wingers, left wingers, nazis, jews. if they dont care, they dont care. and as Hindus, i believe it is our responsibility to atleast try to change things where we can.
