When is it OK to have a Swastika tattoo?

[woodmally 10]

There is a lovely campaign going on as well to reclaim the swastika as a peaceful symbol

 

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/11/08/swastika-tattoo-manwoman_n_4237880.html

[Cyclone 10]

Yeah we did, no problems.

 

Well, maybe you were lucky, I don't know. I was simply telling my anecdote.

 

Although research seems to suggest that it's widespread Japanese behaviour.

[Mossway 15]

We've got a book of UK National Savings stamps from the nineteen thirties and they've all got swastikas on them. Are they worth anything ?

[aliceBB 10]

I thought it was an Indian symbol of peace or something??

 

but orientated slightly differently?

 

I think you are correct. The short bits on the ends of the cross lines point the opposite way. The Nazis seems to have taken the original symbol and reversed it.

[L00b 441]

I think you are correct. The short bits on the ends of the cross lines point the opposite way. The Nazis seems to have taken the original symbol and reversed it.

The first time I ever came across swastikas outside the Nazi Germany context, which came as a bit of a shock initially, was seeing an old (centuries old) Chinese silk garment at some exhibition or museum (IIRC one-off exhib with Forbidden City artefacts and such), which had a lot of small swastikas embroidered throughout. Something like this (Google image found, not the actual one, which was longer like a house coat and black). I remember that the garment patterns were symmetrical about the middle of it, front and back, so there were swastikas in 'both' orientations.

[charmer 10]

It is ok to have a swastika tattoo for a myriad of reasons.

 

1) You belong to (or admire) many of the Eastern religions such as Hinduism.

2) You admire the work of Adolf Hitler and his National Socialists

3) You like the aesthetics of the swastika

 

 

We shouldn't judge people on their appearance.

[ronthenekred 10]

It is ok to have a swastika tattoo for a myriad of reasons.

 

1) You belong to (or admire) many of the Eastern religions such as Hinduism.

2) You admire the work of Adolf Hitler and his National Socialists

3) You like the aesthetics of the swastika

 

 

We shouldn't judge people on their appearance.

 

We certainly shouldn't.

[aliceBB 10]

It is ok to have a swastika tattoo for a myriad of reasons.

 

1) You belong to (or admire) many of the Eastern religions such as Hinduism.

2) You admire the work of Adolf Hitler and his National Socialists

3) You like the aesthetics of the swastika

 

 

We shouldn't judge people on their appearance.

 

 

So if your doctor has a racist slogan emblazoned across his forehead, you wouldn't judge him on his appearance?

 

If you are interviewing someone for an office job and she turns up in filthy jeans and a vomit-stained

T shirt, you wouldn't judge her on her appearance?

 

Most rational people would.

[Guest]

Crispian Mills of KulaShaker found himself in hot water after saying that he'd like Swastikas on their stage set. Its obvious he wanted to use them in the Hindu/Indian context and not a Nazi one but the ignorant moronic media had a field day with it.

[NEKRO138 10]

So if your doctor has a racist slogan emblazoned across his forehead, you wouldn't judge him on his appearance?

 

If you are interviewing someone for an office job and she turns up in filthy jeans and a vomit-stained

T shirt, you wouldn't judge her on her appearance?

 

Most rational people would.

 

Where did they say it would be acceptable to everyone else? Their point was that you make the choice and so you alone decide if it's OK.

[Cyclone 10]

Where did they say it would be acceptable to everyone else? Their point was that you make the choice and so you alone decide if it's OK.

 

You also said

 

"We shouldn't judge people on their appearance."

[NEKRO138 10]

You also said

 

"We shouldn't judge people on their appearance."

 

Well, I didn't say that but I don't disagree with it.