You couldn’t make it up

[markemark]

I wonder how that works with the Hindu community? They often paint swastikas on their doorsteps during Diwali.

They’re not the same. It is reversed. At least the one they typically use now.

 

[Drago]

They’re not the same. It is reversed. At least the one they typically use now.

Absolutely. The resemblance is superficial and the meaning utterly removed from the nazzie item. Sadly too many people show their lack of eduction by getting the vapours over the Hindu version and wilfully make themselves look like prats when the daily heil get the story.

The Hindu sauvastika used in its religious context is exempt from the German swastika display laws, because the very race that appropriated it know the difference.

 

[Andy in Germany]

I wonder how that works with the Hindu community? They often paint swastikas on their doorsteps during Diwali.

There isn't a very big Hindu community in Germany, about 0.01%. They may just use another symbol.

[ETA] I don't know if being reversed makes a difference, not least because the chumps who tend to graffiti them don't know which way it goes anyway.

I saw one scribbled in a lift in Tübingen on the way to work last week, and it was gone by the time I went home. This is in a railway station DB hasn't repainted in at least 15 years: it is still taken very seriously here.

 

[Marchrider]

Building a 4 lane super highway through the Amazon rain forest so as delegates can get to a COP climate change conference.