TheUnholyGhost posted:
Images of Buddha sometimes have swastikas painted on his toes. That must mean Buddha hates JEWS!!!
The symbol of the christian cross is offensive to all those people that died in the crusades! We should retire that cross symbol FOREVER!
The Nazi's used the Iron Cross as a war decoration, that must mean everyone associated with building motorcycles is a jew hating nazi!
The Fleur-De-Lis was the emblem of choice for the Bosnians ethnically cleansing the Serbs and Croats during the Bosnian War. That must mean that the Boyscouts (whose emblem is the fleur-de-lis) and Drew Brees (Saints use the same one) support ethnically cleansing Serbs!
You're a hippy, right, Hyper? Well, the very popular Peace symbol was once called "Nero's Cross" (You remember what he did to the Christians, right?), not to mention it was used on the caskets of dead German SS officers. Therefore, any long haired, tree hugging hippy hates Christians, and supports German SS officers in the afterlife. For shame, Hyper. For shame.
They are goddamn symbols you freaking morons. Symbols that all have good associations and bad associations.
I could come up with half a dozen more if I wanted to devote any more of my Friday to you dimwits.
Well you'd have to show more examples because you haven't proved any point. All you've done is used slippery slope arguments and compared apples to oranges.
The Buddhists used the Swastika first, and it is very obvious when it is being used for religion reasons. It is still completely unacceptable to use the Swastika in many other situations. I guess you'd approve of a US military department using a Nazi Swastika for their symbol?
The Christian Cross and Fleur-de-Lis in no way originated, nor are defined by, the examples you gave. They were used ubiquitously for a very long time. Using them as an example is absolutely retarded, like saying the eagle is a Nazi symbol(yes they used eagles). Same for the Iron Cross, even if not as rampantly used, it was invented in the 1200s and used at various times before the Third Reich.
When were the double stylized sig runes used before the SS? Oh yeah, no where. Your comparisons are retarded. All you are arguing is that symbols have no associative meaning, and where they emerge from is irrelevant, but anyone with an ounce of sense knows otherwise.
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I thought this was about nazis.
