Re:Shopify takes down Ye website selling swastika shirts aft...
by kstrauser on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @12:54PM
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I'm very sympathetic to both groups here.
1. It's an old symbol. Buddhists had it first, and I don't blame them for wanting to hang onto it.
2. Regardless of context, I don't want a picture of me on the Internet playing and having fun in front of a swastika. By the time you get to the part of the explanation that would show you're not actually a neo-Nazi, people will have stopped listening (if they ever did in the first place).
I don't think there are any unreasonable people in that story. It's just an awful situation.
1. It's an old symbol. Buddhists had it first, and I don't blame them for wanting to hang onto it.
2. Regardless of context, I don't want a picture of me on the Internet playing and having fun in front of a swastika. By the time you get to the part of the explanation that would show you're not actually a neo-Nazi, people will have stopped listening (if they ever did in the first place).
I don't think there are any unreasonable people in that story. It's just an awful situation.