[kj] explanation... and today's news

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If you find the Swastika offensive full-stop,that's understandable.If I saw someone wearing  one walking down the street,Yes Id be offended.If I saw some Nazi graffiti ,Yes Id be offended .Actually if it was portrayed in a serious light in any circumstances,then yes Id be offended.
   But fancy dress partys,Basil forty goosestepping,Freddie starr,The nazis out of "The Blues Brothers" anything in that vein, I can live with.

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Bollocks

I'm not Jewish but I find the Swastika offensive. I think of the Swastika as a symbol of a regime that destroyed, butchered, murdered, raped and stole. It reminds me of what happens when people do not stand up and let their voices be heard. 

Isn't it the job of the media to bring these things to our attention?

Isn't it a great thing that the media exists to highlight to us what the tools and symbols of oppression are? We have a relatively free media freedom, true they abuse it, but at least I can make that decision. Many people in the world do not get such a chance. I'm glad that the media exists to tell me what Saddam was doing, what Mugabe does, what Blair and Bush do.

And I believe that many people did indeed find the hammer and sickle offensive in the eighties when it was shown as a symbol of an oppressive regime. That may or may not be true, but think about it, what does the stars and stripes represent these days. Freedom? Yeah, I'm laughing.

People suffer because of regimes, regimes identify themselves with symbols and if knowing what that symbol represents keeps me from being sucked in, then I want to know about it!

So NEVER forget what the Swastika means.