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minus-square[email protected]@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·10 hours agoI 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?
minus-squareJohnEdwa@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-220 minutes agoAny 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/
minus-squaremasterofn001@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·5 hours agoThe cross/crucifix is quickly becoming a hate symbol. (If it wasn’t already)
minus-squareMachinist@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·8 hours agoWait, what did they do to the peace sign? Also, what about the hand signal?
minus-square[email protected]@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·8 hours agoThey tried to get it for a minute after the okay hand sign. Succeeded for a bit before it was relinquished
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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?
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/
The cross/crucifix is quickly becoming a hate symbol. (If it wasn’t already)
Wait, what did they do to the peace sign? Also, what about the hand signal?
They tried to get it for a minute after the okay hand sign. Succeeded for a bit before it was relinquished