Swastika banner flies over New York beaches

[Chuckt]

Swastika banner flies over New York beaches

The organization promoting the banner, Proswastika.org, aims to reclaim the swastika as a symbol of a peace, its meaning long before it became associated with the Nazis.

Swastika banner flies over New York beaches

 

[Peach]

Swastika banner flies over New York beaches

The organization promoting the banner, Proswastika.org, aims to reclaim the swastika as a symbol of a peace, its meaning long before it became associated with the Nazis.

Swastika banner flies over New York beaches

Take IT down.

 

[Swagger]

Big deal.

The Swastika is displayed on the History Channel almost every second of the day.

 

[Katzndogz]

Swastika banner flies over New York beaches

The organization promoting the banner, Proswastika.org, aims to reclaim the swastika as a symbol of a peace, its meaning long before it became associated with the Nazis.

Swastika banner flies over New York beaches

Their sentiment might be correct. It's just not going to be perceived that way. I see tons of indian women wearing clothing pattered with the swastika since it is a symbol of peace and friendship in their culture, as it is in the native American culture. It just won't be perceived that way by the vast majority of the world.

 

[Peach]

Big deal.

The Swastika is displayed on the History Channel almost every second of the day.

Yes, evil is part of history, and flying the Swasika is the US is an insult to every American that served in WWII. In particular, those that died, or were injured in that struggle against Fascists.

 

[September]

The swatstika is a beautiful, powerful symbol. Keep it up.

 

[Jughead]

Big deal.

The Swastika is displayed on the History Channel almost every second of the day.

Yes, evil is part of history, and flying the Swasika is the US is an insult to every American that served in WWII. In particular, those that died, or were injured in that struggle against Fascists.

Not to mention the millions of innocent civilians who died in the concentration camps. New York officials need to have them removed from the beaches ASAP!

 

[Peach]

Big deal.

The Swastika is displayed on the History Channel almost every second of the day.

Yes, evil is part of history, and flying the Swasika is the US is an insult to every American that served in WWII. In particular, those that died, or were injured in that struggle against Fascists.

Not to mention the millions of innocent civilians who died in the concentration camps. New York officials need to have them removed from the beaches ASAP!

A symbol of all that is against liberty, take the rags down, also an insult to Germany today, a nation that has struggled to eliminate the evil.

 

[Valerie]

The organization promoting the banner, Proswastika.org, aims to reclaim the swastika as a symbol of a peace...


The Las Vegas-based International Raelian Movement paid for the banner, according to Proswastika.org.

Raelians believe extraterrestrials created humans thousands of years ago. The group is not anti-Semitic, Raelian spokesman Thomas Kaenzig told the Wall Street Journal.

According to The Journal, Kaenzig said, "We're here to educate people, not offend people."

^ trolls in 3D

Mark Treyger, the New York councilman who represents Coney Island, is not buying that argument.

"I will not accept their twisted logic. And I am also going to speak out against sending chilling messages of fear and intimidation to residents," Treyger told CBS New York.

 

[Inevitable]

Don't care.

 

[Katzndogz]

Isn't the Ralians the ones that claimed to have cloned a human being a few years ago?

They are lunatics.

 

[September]

Yes, evil is part of history, and flying the Swasika is the US is an insult to every American that served in WWII. In particular, those that died, or were injured in that struggle against Fascists.

Not to mention the millions of innocent civilians who died in the concentration camps. New York officials need to have them removed from the beaches ASAP!

A symbol of all that is against liberty, take the rags down, also an insult to Germany today, a nation that has struggled to eliminate the evil.

The swatstika is not "against liberty." Anyone who allows themselves to feel insulted by this ancient symbol needs to understand that they are choosing to feel that way. As long as people decide to view the swatstika as "evil" or "scary" or "insulting", that gives others who use it for those means power over them. Many people use it for "positive" expression, however the symbol itself is amoral and thus neither "good" nor "evil".

The same goes for the pentagram.

 

[Peach]

The organization promoting the banner, Proswastika.org, aims to reclaim the swastika as a symbol of a peace...


The Las Vegas-based International Raelian Movement paid for the banner, according to Proswastika.org.

Raelians believe extraterrestrials created humans thousands of years ago. The group is not anti-Semitic, Raelian spokesman Thomas Kaenzig told the Wall Street Journal.

According to The Journal, Kaenzig said, "We're here to educate people, not offend people."

trolls in 3D

Mark Treyger, the New York councilman who represents Coney Island, is not buying that argument.

"I will not accept their twisted logic. And I am also going to speak out against sending chilling messages of fear and intimidation to residents," Treyger told CBS New York.

Atheists who believe UFOs seeded earth. No stated goals to help overcome the "negative" association with the swastika. Take them down.

 

[NLT]

For peach and all the other whiners here ya go enjoy.

 

[Peach]

Not to mention the millions of innocent civilians who died in the concentration camps. New York officials need to have them removed from the beaches ASAP!

A symbol of all that is against liberty, take the rags down, also an insult to Germany today, a nation that has struggled to eliminate the evil.

The swatstika is not "against liberty." Anyone who allows themselves to feel insulted by this ancient symbol needs to understand that they are choosing to feel that way. As long as people decide to view the swatstika as "evil" or "scary" or "insulting", that gives others who use it for those means power over them. Many people use it for "positive" expression, however the symbol itself is amoral and thus neither "good" nor "evil".

The same goes for the pentagram.

One cannot separate the recent use with the symbol; of course the pentagram is not like the swastika. Your religion is your business.

 

[Valerie]

The swatstika is a beautiful, powerful symbol. Keep it up.

hey, here's another powerful symbol for you... (no offense)

 

[Asclepias]

Like most things white racists soil with their filthy ideas, the originally meaning of the swastika for 3K years stood for peace. Nothing wrong with displaying it unless you are using it to promote Nazism. Like most things context should be looked at before determining the intent.

 

[Peach]

Like most things white racists soil with their filthy ideas, the originally meaning of the swastika for 3K years stood for peace. Nothing wrong with displaying it unless you are using it to promote Nazism. Like most things context should be looked at before determining the intent.

It stood for genocide only 70 years ago. It stands for the Axis powers, still today. Some WWII Vets in the US may be offended, as am I.

 

[Zmrzlina]

Big deal.

The Swastika is displayed on the History Channel almost every second of the day.

It's called context.

 

[Peach]

Big deal.

The Swastika is displayed on the History Channel almost every second of the day.

It's called context.

Flying on a US beach vs. part of a TV show on history, yes.