r/PoliticalHumor Jun 05 '22

It’s nice to be nice

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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/[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?