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Originally posted by Rudey
And some say they are doing it now not to humiliate people. Why can't you follow the argument? It seems you often have that difficulty.
And on top of that nobody equated anything. Both are awful things and it seems that there are a ton of people who seem to all of a sudden call people PC, or take up a cause for no reason. What is your cause and interest in this?? Why are you so interested in people learning about the true history of the swastika? Please tell us. Tell me what it is that gets you to exert energy doing searches and coming on GC to provide these arguments.
-Rudey
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I am not defending blackface, and I never will. There is no argument to follow, as the two are not the same. As I said, one was created for hate, the other had no association until Hitler. It is still not an identical image.
Why do I have an interest and a cause here?
1) I find it important to know history, and be informed. Without this I would be angry at the wrong thing. To know of the world and other people, places, and things, is power.
2) I spent a lot of time living with and studying Native American cultures. So many of these people have vanishing history. Why should their culture have to suffer and be hidden because someone else took a similar symbol and used it for hate? This isn't just Native American history, this is U.S. and World history.
3) I live in the Pacific Northwest. This is local architecture, and on the Register of National Historic Places. The building has been selected to be preserved, and since the symbol is not the exact same (and people won't ever know that it isn't unless they are educated), altering it is not going to aid in that education. Destroying a floor will not change the past.
4) There is an antique item in my family home with the original symbol that predates 1900. I grew up with first knowing this as a symbol of good luck, and then how it was changed to one of hate.
5) I am a firm believer in "never again". By talking about it and educating people, Never Again will be a reality. The power of hate is taken away.