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That's nice. Irrelevant, but nice. One presumes that one or another adult in the chain of command will educate them in the error of their ways.
Someone better educate the numerous cultures out there that swastikas are the symbol for Nazi's and should remove it from their use to avoid offending ignorant people who have no concept our historical understanding of the use of symbols.
Someone better educate the numerous cultures out there that swastikas are the symbol for Nazi's and should remove it from their use to avoid offending ignorant people who have no concept our historical understanding of the use of symbols.
Ehm - there were US Marines. I don't think it's entirely unfair to assume they had an idea of what the letters "SS" in lightning runes signify in Western culture.
It's not that I don't get that soldiers will head straight to offensiveness to express their basic badassery - the marching songs we sang back when I wore a uniform were anything but politically correct, for that purpose. It's the feigned innocence that's annoying. "Oh, so the initials SS had another meaning, back when? And those guys used lightning runes, too? Gee Willie, we had no idea!" Please.
After reading some of these comments it is no surprise that the neocons sold the whole WMD nonsense to the American public, as it is obvious they will believe anything (excluding the more astute amongst us, like Dane)
But the Swastika is only a Native American prayer wheel, and SS runes mean Scout Sniper, or Speed and Strength!
You mean the SS were a criminal organization responsible for atrocities too numerous to catalog?Reeeeeallly?
Someone better educate the numerous cultures out there that swastikas are the symbol for Nazi's and should remove it from their use to avoid offending ignorant people who have no concept our historical understanding of the use of symbols.
It is ironic that you state people should understand the history of symbols and then describe the swastika as a Nazi symbol. That is like saying you should learn the history of the Christian cross, a KKK symbol.
The Swastika (BOTH DIRECTIONS) is one of the most ubiquitous symbols across human culture. You find Swastikas in South Asia, East Asia, Pre-Columbian Americas, Pre-Christian and Post-Christian Europe, and even in some old Jewish Synagogues and Qabbalah manuscripts.
So tens of thousands of swastikas, the world over, extending back in time to the last ice age 10,000 years ago should now be relegated to inglorious doom because the Nazis used it for less than 20 years.
It is ironic that you state people should understand the history of symbols and then describe the swastika as a Nazi symbol. That is like saying you should learn the history of the Christian cross, a KKK symbol.
The Swastika (BOTH DIRECTIONS) is one of the most ubiquitous symbols across human culture. You find Swastikas in South Asia, East Asia, Pre-Columbian Americas, Pre-Christian and Post-Christian Europe, and even in some old Jewish Synagogues and Qabbalah manuscripts.
So tens of thousands of swastikas, the world over, extending back in time to the last ice age 10,000 years ago should now be relegated to its inglorious doom because the Nazis used it for their 13 year existence.
Could you spin a bit more?
The meaning of symbols (like language) is not static, apologist.
the NAZI swastika is very self-evident. It is hardly confused with the religious swastikas (whose arms sometimes point the opposite direction).
Scout Sniper, “S” ”S”… What is the big deal all about really? Why must SS be in reference to anything else other than Scout Sniper? We all have SS numbers for Social Security, are the PC extremists not offended by that as well?
Scout Sniper, “S” ”S”… What is the big deal all about really? Why must SS be in reference to anything else other than Scout Sniper? We all have SS numbers for Social Security, are the PC extremists not offended by that as well?
Big deal about nothing.....just let the guys do their jobs and save the PC nonsense for the Office Poagies.
Do you mean "Do the job of right-wing warmongers?
I'm a vet and I take offense to your casual treatment of my existence.
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