# Of All the Tacky Things in This World....

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [September 6, 2003, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/of-all-the-tacky-things-in-this-world/199864 "2003-09-06T02:01:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![Space\_Vampire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Space\_Vampire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Space_Vampire)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2003, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/of-all-the-tacky-things-in-this-world/199864/21 "2003-09-07T03:22:44Z")

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> \*Originally posted by DocCathode \*  
> \*\*And if the store was using a swastika by itself, or in concert with other symbols of the same religious/cultural tradition, you would have a point.
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> However, if you read the article you’ll see  
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And if If you read my post more carefully you would see I wasn’t talking about Izzue, who are clearly in the wrong.

Now that somebody’s linked a picture of the robot I’m not really sure WHAT they were thinking as religious symbolsim would be just as odd there as Nazi symbolism, but that was my guess with no information.

When people think of World War 2 atrocities in Hong Kong they tend to think of the Rape of Nanjing, not Hitler. Stupid, sure, but isn’t it pretty much the opposite in the west? Still, that NOBODY at Izzue said “what, what the hell is this crap?” before the stuff went to production.

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**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2003, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/of-all-the-tacky-things-in-this-world/199864/22 "2003-09-07T03:30:15Z")

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> The thing is, those aren’t Buddhist swastikas. Those would run the other way.

I can’t think of a cite offhand, but I’m pretty sure even the ‘Nazi’ version (clockwise) has been used by others.

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**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2003, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/of-all-the-tacky-things-in-this-world/199864/23 "2003-09-07T03:40:27Z")

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Yeah, the Empress Alexandra of Russia was very fond of the swastika-it was her good luck symbol. Her last diary cover has a swastika embroidered on it by her daughter, Tatiana, and in _The Jewel Album of Tsar Nicholas II_ there are sketches of pins that have swastikas in the design.

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