See picture 6. They’ll probably take it down once people notice.
Why would they do that?
No reason to take it down, it’s inoffensive in that context.
Hell, half the imported foods in my cupboards have swastikas on the package.
The swastika is a perfectly valid hindu symbol. Had this been an American site I’m sure there’d be trouble, but I think that even if there are complaints, the BBC will stand their ground and keep it.
Buddhist, here.
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Don’t ask me why, but I don’t think the little Asian girl with flowers in her hair is a Nazi.
The girl in #2 is a little hairier than I like.
Good for them. The symbol is being used in a very valid and honest context, and only outside perception could make it otherwise.
Five quid says ‘otherwise’. :S
The Nazi swastika has the arms going the other way.
I would think there would be a problem if the swastika was red, white, and black in color (“colors” of the Nazis). But I think given the yellow and red, plus it’s in another context, you’ve distanced this particular symbol from most Socialist connotations.
Tripler
That’s my take on it, though.
The National Socialists were only nominally socialist.
What’s needed is distance from fascist connotations.
[/good Canadian socialist]
Thanks for picking that one up. If you hadn’t, I would have. 
</spawn of generations of good Canadian socialists>
That is true in this instance, but the traditional ones go both ways.
As Zeldar has noted, the orientation of the Nazi hakenkreuz was the opposite of the BBC picture.
As Tripler noted, the colors, yellowish on orange-red, do not match the red, black, and white colors of the Nazi symbol.
And, as I will now point out, the Nazi hakenkreuz was tilted 45° to stand on the point of one crooked arm.
That photo is entirely innocent and should be left alone.
We don’t need no Fascist jackboots
We don’t need no occult Krauts
No rewarmed Wagner sparking race hate
Nazis, leave my cross alone
Hey, Nazis, leave my cross alone!
Come on. It’s obvious the photographer deliberately framed the photo to prominently include the symbol. Do you really think it made it onto the website with no one noticing?
You don’t know how much cropping, if any, the BBC did after they got the photo. For all you know, there’s an underground Nazi photo editor in their midst!
Write a complaint email and see what happens.
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