The only good imperial is a dead imperial. The only good stormtrooper is a dead one. I’m only talking about Star wars here wink wink.

Yes they do. And it still doesn’t change the fact that the swastika means Nazism for Jewish folk and people who had to witness the horrors of WW2 and the Holocaust.

So, if a Hindu (while knowing what the symbol means for a Jewish person) went up to a Jewish person and waved the symbol in their face, it wouldn’t be so nice now, would it?

Similarly, waving the hammer and sickle in front of a Polish person and saying, “akshually it means worker liberation” would be pretty dickish.

The swastika is a holy symbol in Hinduism. Absolutely not associated with genocide for a thousand years.

The Nazis adopted it, and now Swastika = Nazi.

The hammer and sickle was used to represent industrial workers and farmers to unite against the bourgeoisie. The USSR adopted it, and suppressed Eastern Europe under abject authoritarian rule for half a century.

For individuals who have had to go through that crap, yeah… Why would they not hate it as much as the Swastika?