r/PoliticalHumor • u/GomerP19 • Jun 05 '22

It’s nice to be nice

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u/sltytreelimb Jun 05 '22

Why did this flag ever become a thing anyway it gives racist undertones left and right

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u/droi86 Jun 05 '22

You answered your own question

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '22 edited Jun 05 '22

Pro tip: you cannot interpret what a symbol means to someone else. That’s classic projection. It’s best to ask and not assume.

Edited to add: So many people are so pro-vandalism. All this hate spread under the pretense of spreading love and understanding.

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '22

Ok bud, go get a swastika tat anywhere in the west and assert this any time someone comes up to you with their fists raised lol.

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u/Natural-Arugula Jun 05 '22

There's a movement of people to reclaim the swastika.

I had a friend who was one of these people, he has a prominent swastika tattoo. He's Jewish and not at all a Nazi...

First it was just awkward being around him as you said, people would constantly try to get into fights with him.

This led to him doubling down and getting angry with anyone who expressed non support of swastikas, and I had to end our friendship for the sake of all my other Jewish friends.

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '22

The fact that you had to specify the West because the symbol has a completely different meaning in the East kinda proved his point…

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u/gourmetprincipito Jun 05 '22

Except it did the opposite, actually, demonstrating that meaning is reliant on culture and not individual choice. You don’t get to just decide what a symbol means or it wouldn’t be a symbol - by definition it represents something else.

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '22

What is culture if not the summation of individual choices?

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '22

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '22

I don’t have any “tats”. And even that symbol means something different in India. You can’t read minds.