1/26/2005: Hindu swastika

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Originally Posted by Beestie

What about the disservice that was done to the people that revered it? To say "its not theirs anymore" is awfully cavalier. If someone murdered 6M people under the sign of the cross, I don't think it would be fair to ask Christians to "find something else."

I didn't say it was fair that the Nazis appropriated their symbol in their quest for world domination. What I'm saying is that it's more important, now, for the symbol to stand for that episode in human history, than it is to uphold some ambiguous cultural ownership policy about who owned what symbol first. To do so diminishes the power of the lesson that the swastika stands for now.