----- Original Message ----- From: "Julia Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 11:07 AM Subject: Re: Who is the sheriff?
> Dan Minette wrote: > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Julia Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 11:00 AM > > Subject: Re: Who is the sheriff? > > > > > "Horn, John" wrote: > > > > > > > > > From: Doug Pensinger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > Why? Hitler and Nazism symbolize more than the holocaust. I > > > > > associate > > > > > fascism, secret police and several other nasty things with > > > > > him and his > > > > > regime. > > > > > > > > > > I think it's in poor taste but not anti-Semitic. > > > > > > > > (It's taken me a long time to get a chance to answer this one...) > > > > > > > > It seems to me that 99 times out 100, when you see a swastica it is > > being > > > > used in either an anti-Semitic or racist manner and is being used to > > > > intimedate. > > > > > > In the US, certainly. In other parts of the world, no. Gotta keep these > > > things in context. > > > > > > > IIRC, the swastika used by the Nazis is unique. The Hindu symbol points in > > the opposite direction. > > But you've got to know the difference. And I'm sure that a number of the > people using it in the US don't. :(
Does anyone have an example of a backwards swastika being used by mistake in the US?
No, but I would think it likely that some individuals spray-painting synagogues at midnight might make such errors . . .
-- Ronn! :)
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