[Lazarus] Do we really need a PaintSwastika procedure?

[Terry A. Haimann]

As someone of Jewish heritage I say get rid of it.  Change it's name and
change it's color scheme.

On Wed, 2016-01-06 at 16:31 +0100, Bart wrote:
> On 1/6/16, Marc Santhoff <M.Santhoff at web.de> wrote:
> 
> >> Do we really need this procedure in the lcl? I think it should probably
> >> be
> >> removed.
> >
> > Additionally to Micheals answer:
> >
> > Please don't be foolish. Would you want to dispel any star symbol
> > because the soviet union, satanists and northern korea use(d) a red
> > star?  This would put the question on "PaintCross" and some more.
> >
> > One could demand to remove any religious reference, then the name would
> > have to be changed. Or to filter out any bad words when printing text,
> > censorship that is.
> 
> While I agree a similar argument can be made for anything that offends
> people there are some differences here.
> 
> First f all. Taking offence against a  cross (because of religious
> beleives) is not of the same order as taking offence against the
> symbol of the Nazi's.
> 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.
> 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.
> 
> NB. The function was apparently introduced by Seppo (over 9 years ago)
> 
> Bart
> 
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