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Because it's no longer a symbol of peace and well-being.
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But you see, that's where you're wrong. It never stopped being a symbol of peace and well-being. It now has two meanings.
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How do you think Jews feel about that picture?
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Quite honestly that is their problem, not the problem of the
millions of hindus around the world who feel quite differently about it.
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People are still very sensitive to that symbol, as witnessed lately with the whole Prince Harry debacle.
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Please don't use the royals as an example for anything, it can only hurt your credibility.
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Look, I'm no political-correctness policeman, but I think it's important to keep that symbol as it is as a reminder of what happened.
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But by wanting to squash the feelings of a people who have been using that symbol for longer than a number of the countries in this world have existed,
just because someone is offended by it, then you are exactly that.
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It'd be a shame if its meaning got diluted, and besides, how confusing would it be if some part of the world associated it with peace and well-being, and another part of the world associated it with the most famous genocide in human history? Talk about your mixed messages.
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It's not diluting something to return it to the 5000 +/- meaning it has carried. Quite the opposite I believe.
And as to mixed messages, it's not sending a mixed message. A hindu walking around with a swastika around his neck as a talisman is only doing it for himself.