see it’s interesting to me because I thought it was the way it looks like it should spin that matters, with the Buddhist one looking like it should spin clockwise and the Nazi one looking like it should spin counter clockwise. Is it the 45 degree tilt that makes the big difference?
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pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
They might be using the wrong swastika but I get the sentiment
ristoril_zip@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 1 day ago
It’s the direction the legs go. Nazis mirrored the eastern one and then tilted it 45°.
Venat0r@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Its used both 卐 or 卍 ways around in different non-nazi examples: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika
Plenty of modern nazis don’t know how to draw it though, so you can never be sure… Image
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 1 day ago
antifa made those to make us look stupid!
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YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 1 day ago
This is glorious. Fucking idiots
palordrolap@fedia.io 1 day ago
Explain please. All the ones I see in the image are shaped like four adjoined letter L's which is the same way around that the Nazis used. Or are you referring to the fact that most of them aren't stood on a corner, diamond-wise?
facelessbs@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
I totally forgot it’s also mirrored. Thanks for pulling it up
turmacar@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yes and no. The one the Nazis used was / is also a symbol used in Asia. The Nazis used it because of their obsession with Aryans. (And really, everywhere. It’s a fairly basic pattern.) Sometimes it’s at an angle, sometimes it’s not.
Generally in the west, unless it’s on a statue of budda, any swastika-ish symbol since ~1930s is going to be a reference to Nazis though.
Numuruzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
I reckon it’s the latter, I noticed it too. Nazis are the only ones who use it tilted like that, as far as I know.
PapaStevesy@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Let’s be real here, they’re the only ones that use it at all anymore.
SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
You know, the subcontinent has around a billion people on it? Who see it scattered all around, for thousands of years.
OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Every Hindu and many Buddhists disagree. Way to just ignore almost a billion people dude. The world isn’t just the west.