[Lazarus] Do we really need a PaintSwastika procedure?

[Marc Santhoff]

On Mi, 2016-01-06 at 16:31 +0100, Bart wrote: 

Look there:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika

> While I am willing to defend each and everyone's freedom of speech,
> IMO this does not imply that we (the Lazarus community) should
> actively support speading such logo's.
> (Nor should we e.g. support bashing of any religion/race etc in our
> sourcecode or comments.)
> 
> As for the "its an ancient rune" argument: the same thing can be said
> for several phrases that now are considered to be offending to e.g.
> ethnic groups, and we do not promote these her as well.

Well what about "PaintCross", "PaintFivePointStar",
"PaintFivePointLineStar", "PaintChevron"? 

All in the same unit ... has anyone ever used that procedures, what do
the results actually look like?

> Current state is that the Swastika now has very strong associations
> witj the Nazi regime and all the evil it stood for.
> 
> So, yes, IMVPAPO, it should be removed.

I'd be with you and support that idea if any star symbol having a
satanistic or stalinistic look would be removed, too.

Go ahead, burn the witch, what's next?

> NB. The function was apparently introduced by Seppo (over 9 years ago)

Who's that? A Nazi, historan or hindu? A joker most probably.

-- 
Marc Santhoff <M.Santhoff at web.de>