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[–] kameecoding@lemmy.world 16 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (15 children)

Yes and the swastika is the symbol of well-being

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world -2 points 13 hours ago (5 children)

Yes, and any cross is a symbol of white nationalism because they were used by the KKK.

Not every symbol used by racist people is a symbol of racism. You gave the one most extreme example where a symbol was co-opted and can never mean anything else again.

[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Like the universal ok symbol. My good that was so stupid.

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

Exactly. I had a guy I worked with that used examples of liberals complaining about the OK symbol as an excuse to ignore every awful thing Trump did and said during his 2016 election and while he was in office.

I’m not saying he wouldn’t have done that anyway, but we make it so easy for them to ignore us!

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