[Lazarus] Do we really need a PaintSwastika procedure?
Juha Manninen
juha.manninen62 at gmail.com
Thu Jan 7 22:27:50 CET 2016
On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 10:44 PM, Dmitry Boyarintsev
<skalogryz.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> Swastika = Nazis, by default these days.
Ok, this must be a cultural difference then. I have talked and read
about this symbol in context of historical use and current use in
India, and the word "swastika" had no such negative meaning then.
So big differences inside Europe.
Now I read its usage is completely banned in Germany and in other
middle European countries.
Uhhh, such a pity. I hope it will change soon. The symbol is so basic
and easy to draw and "obvious" that it surely is used for very long
time. Oldest reported uses are from 10000 years ago but very likely it
is older.
Unfortunately popular symbols get negative associations sometimes. How
long it takes to get rid of them?
Now 75 years apparently is not enough. How about 100 years?
Napoleon conquered the world some 200 years ago. That is long enough
as nobody seems to have strong negative association with his actions
although he was quite a butcher, too.
Is there any way to speed up the process? This important symbol will
be tainted and wasted, I must always think what is the "polically
correct" way to deal with it. This sucks ...
Juha
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