De-construct it's symbolism if it really matters to you.
Why do you think us gays adopted the words fag and queer? To de-construct the symbolism and power people put behind the words.
Like I said before, no one likes to live in fear. Instead of trying to make staff do this, or make other people do that, why not do what you can to further educate people on the meaning of the swastika. Try to dis-associate it from the concepts of fascism, because thats all thats holding you back here. The sickel and hammer - to the collective consciousness of the population of the Earth - doesn't represent Stalin's reign, or his crimes against humanity. To most people, the hammer and sickle represent communism, (i know, but there is a disticntion) and it is adopted by people who generally disagree with Capitalism.
If more movies had been made about the Russian revolution and the Soviet experiment, you'd have a collective conciousness in thw world that would look at the hammer and sickle and say "Oh yeah, thems the bad peoples who killed thems Tsar king or something, and put missles in Cubar."
Take the power to insight fear and hatred away from a word or image, and it'll become accepted as just what it is, a word or image.
Right now, the world isn't prepared to accept the swastika as a symbol of anything except "what dem germans wore when they invaded frenchland. I saws it in the movie with Tommy Hanks."
Why do you think us gays adopted the words fag and queer? To de-construct the symbolism and power people put behind the words.
Like I said before, no one likes to live in fear. Instead of trying to make staff do this, or make other people do that, why not do what you can to further educate people on the meaning of the swastika. Try to dis-associate it from the concepts of fascism, because thats all thats holding you back here. The sickel and hammer - to the collective consciousness of the population of the Earth - doesn't represent Stalin's reign, or his crimes against humanity. To most people, the hammer and sickle represent communism, (i know, but there is a disticntion) and it is adopted by people who generally disagree with Capitalism.
If more movies had been made about the Russian revolution and the Soviet experiment, you'd have a collective conciousness in thw world that would look at the hammer and sickle and say "Oh yeah, thems the bad peoples who killed thems Tsar king or something, and put missles in Cubar."
Take the power to insight fear and hatred away from a word or image, and it'll become accepted as just what it is, a word or image.
Right now, the world isn't prepared to accept the swastika as a symbol of anything except "what dem germans wore when they invaded frenchland. I saws it in the movie with Tommy Hanks."
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