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[–] VirgilMastercard@reddthat.com 31 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

lel get fucked El卐n

[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 16 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

I find the nazis fascinating for their ability to co-opt symbols like the swastika. Could you imagine that happening today? Taking, for instance, the peace sign, punisher symbol, or Gadsden flag and turning them into quiet hate symbols?

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 3 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

Any symbol they would have chosen would have ended up as the Nazi symbol. Just like the name Hitler or that specific mustache style.

But the swastika specifically ending as the symbol you can mostly thank to Heinrich Schliemann and Émile-Louis Burnouf finding swastika adorned pottery at a Troy excavation in the 1870's, and declaring them to be the ancient symbols of the Aryans. https://humanjourney.us/language/external-symbols/swastika-the-hidden-power-of-a-symbol/

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 hours ago

As a quick aside, the term Aryan was also co-opted by the Nazis. It originally referred to the Indo-Europeans as whole, and well the Swastika was present in European art until the early modern period namely as a form of repeating pattern for say rugs.

[–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 4 points 11 hours ago

The cross/crucifix is quickly becoming a hate symbol. (If it wasn't already)

[–] Machinist@lemmy.world 8 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Wait, what did they do to the peace sign? Also, what about the hand signal?

[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 7 points 14 hours ago

They tried to get it for a minute after the okay hand sign. Succeeded for a bit before it was relinquished