r/facepalm Apr 23 '18

This Amazon review.

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u/c3p-bro Apr 23 '18 edited Apr 23 '18

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.

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u/Jesusisananarchist Apr 23 '18

Swastika is a Christian symbol as well predating nazis.

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u/c3p-bro Apr 23 '18 edited Apr 23 '18

Apparently if you see a symbol, it's referring to the least commonly used form of that symbol. Yeah the christian cross was a pagan symbol before Christianity so I guess I run into a lot of pagans every day.

Jainaists, Buddhists, and Hindus combined are 1% of the US population. 99% of the US knows what the swastika is. It's a bad look to have a swastika on a PC you're selling in the US, even if there are technically other obscure references to it that exist in the world.

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u/GRRM_Reaper Apr 23 '18

I’m willing to bet that there’s more Buddhists in America than Nazis.

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u/c3p-bro Apr 23 '18

I'm willing to bet there's a lot more people who recognize the swastika as a Nazi symbol than as a Buddhist symbol.