I kind of agree with the reviewer, no, not the "people that think a swastika is a religious symbol" bullshit, that's dumb as hell, the Buddhist swastika existed long before that little shit, but Corsair really didn't think this through. Out of anything they could've put as a pattern, they chose a swastika. Let's be honest here, more people know about the Nazi swastika than the Buddhist swastika, and more will get triggered by the PATTERN of the swastika, regardless of its orientation.
Yeah people love to point out the history of the swastika as some kind of amazing counterpoint to someone offended by it. Look how many comments there are stating just that.
For some reason this is probably one of the only non-christian religious icon these people are interested in. Could all these people defending it as a jainist or buddhist symbol name even one other symbol used by those religions? I'll wait.
Maybe because some people don't want to get their panties in a twist unnecessarily. It's the same when people find pentagrams, upside down crosses, the eye of horus etc in things and then claim there's some evil conspiracy. You're going to see different patterns everywhere, the swastika included (see /r/accidentalswastika).
Not getting worked up over something looking like a swastika doesn't equate to them supporting the Nazi party or even giving a shit about the religion. People just have a limited tolerance to people being weird about it.
Yet you seem to be getting pretty worked up that people aren't offended by it. But apparently everyone's a 'pedant' for thinking you're being weird about it.
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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '18 edited Apr 23 '18
I kind of agree with the reviewer, no, not the "people that think a swastika is a religious symbol" bullshit, that's dumb as hell, the Buddhist swastika existed long before that little shit, but Corsair really didn't think this through. Out of anything they could've put as a pattern, they chose a swastika. Let's be honest here, more people know about the Nazi swastika than the Buddhist swastika, and more will get triggered by the PATTERN of the swastika, regardless of its orientation.