• driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br
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    15 hours ago

    He’s from Asia where the number 8 have a good luck meaning, so is likely is not related to the 88 neo nazis uses.

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        13 hours ago

        To be fair, it’s easier to be ignorant of neo-Nazi numerology than of their use of the swastika.

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        10 hours ago

        It absolutely justifies Indians using the swastika. They didn’t agree to the nazis stealing their culture, that had existed for thousands of years, to use as their logo. Don’t be racist.

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          8 hours ago

          looks like it’s even more complicated than i did assume ☞ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika_(Germanic_Iron_Age)

          this has nothing to do with race, i was making an analogy. I’m neither in/from Germany, nor in/from India. I just happen to know this:

          The German and Austrian postwar criminal code makes the public showing of the swastika, the sig rune, the Celtic cross (specifically the variations used by white power activists), the wolfsangel, the odal rune and the Totenkopf skull illegal, except for certain enumerated exemptions.

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      14 hours ago

      Thanks for pointing that out. I didn’t know about that good luck meaning.

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      14 hours ago

      I’d buy that if he didn’t start his statement with “I live in Switzerland.” 8 may be a lucky number for him, but he absolutely knows what 88 means.

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        14 hours ago

        He can be both from Asia and still live in Switzerland

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          14 hours ago

          On the flip side, do you think a Swiss person living in Asia would be ignorant that 8 is a lucky number?

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            10 hours ago

            I think all the Westerners in this thread that are shocked that Asia has culture they didn’t consult them on would imply yes to your question.