# Time to rehabilitate the swastika, loons proclaim

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-rehabilitate-the-swastika-loons-proclaim/626248>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [June 25, 2012, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-rehabilitate-the-swastika-loons-proclaim/626248 "2012-06-25T15:01:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2012, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-rehabilitate-the-swastika-loons-proclaim/626248/21 "2012-06-25T19:56:16Z")

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> [@bouv](#):
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> Hey now, Hitler wasn’t all bad.
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> After all, he _did_ kill Hitler.

LOL.

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**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2012, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-rehabilitate-the-swastika-loons-proclaim/626248/22 "2012-06-25T22:14:26Z")

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> [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](#):
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> [Raelians](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raelians), they mad.

It’s an incremental process. Phase one is to still have the swastika associated with insane beliefs, but insane beliefs that are amusing rather than horrifying.

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**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2012, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-rehabilitate-the-swastika-loons-proclaim/626248/23 "2012-06-25T22:16:26Z")

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> [@Boyo\_Jim](#):
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> Can you tell us anything about the context of this photo?

Bow got Errol Flynn as her Secret Santa.

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**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2012, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-rehabilitate-the-swastika-loons-proclaim/626248/24 "2012-06-25T22:51:58Z")

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Hey, even a stopped clock is right now and then…

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**Author:** ![Covered\_In\_Bees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@Covered\_In\_Bees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covered_In_Bees)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2012, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-rehabilitate-the-swastika-loons-proclaim/626248/25 "2012-06-25T22:58:34Z")

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What if the swastika were [made of LOLs](http://static.fjcdn.com/pictures/lol_bbc1a4_285725.jpg)? Would that make it a little easier to bring it back to its respectable roots?

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**Author:** ![bengangmo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@bengangmo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bengangmo)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2012, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-rehabilitate-the-swastika-loons-proclaim/626248/26 "2012-06-26T01:00:28Z")

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My daughter’s school has a swastica on the front gate,

And there is another school here called Red Swastica.

I haven’t read the article, but am in pretty firm agreement that it is time to “reclaim” the Swastica.

Reasoning is two fold  
a) It has a far older, deeper meaning than what Hitler did to it  
b) By “reclaiming” the Swastica you take it away from neo nazi wankers and strip them of one way to intimidate - which can only be a good thing

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