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The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
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Not disagreeing with current meaning behind the swastika, but it was appropriated from Sanskrit; it was not created to be hateful.
It wasn’t appropriated from Sanskrit, the design was a popular across the Indo-European cultures for millenia but happened to survive into modernity in Sanskrit. The Nazis ripped it from artifacts being found mainly in Germanic and Celtic archeology sites, they also ripped a bunch of other symbols but most of those were dropped by the start of the war, they also made the black sun symbol (I just woke up from a nap and can’t rember the name) based off the solar symbols of ancient Neolithic to Bronze age Old European cultures.
It’s still used today in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism.
It’s not the reversed, 45-degree angle one the Nazis used to set theirs apart.
The tilted and reversed doesn’t matter, the original one is allowed to be reversed and tilted as well, it’s juat usually not tilted.
i hope someday that will be the first thing people think of when they see it, again