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necropolist
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Re: Reclaiming the Swastika
Oct 13, 2003, 10:24
as wittgensterin once said - words (& all symbols that communicate meaning) mean however thy are used. the origins of the symbol are entirely irrelevant. it is its meaning now that matters. for example, the women's lib symbol - y'know the circle with the cross underneath it kinda thing, actually came from the ancient greeks - who drew it that way to denote womans vanity (it was meant to represent a hand held mirror) - it came to be used as a generic symbol for women, and then was appropriated by the womens libbers, without any irony, or attempt at reclamation. its just the way the symbol changed.

why bother reclaiming the swastika anyway? it's just another shitty old religious symbol? fuck that too! fucking hindu chauvinists are, well not as bad as the nazi's, but they contain within them (in the shape of the RSS, a part of the party of government of half india) an openly fascist party.

fuck the swastika.
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