MULTIVERSEIs your child far left?
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cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/23431138
Crossposted from https://lemmy.world/post/40642280
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Remove the tankie watermark and this is pretty good
tecnically, that’s just the symbol for communism, which doesn’t need to be authoritarian. ancoms, for example.
It’s absolutely not owned by Tankies. It’s been used for communism before the USSR. It represents unity in workers.
I have no dog in this fight but it raises an interesting thought about certain other symbols that have been tainted by authoritarian governments
Devil’s Advocate here: the Swastika also had a different meaning before being taken over by Nazis. I’m not necessarily saying that the hammer and sickle means one thing or another, but after the USSR used it people (mainly non-communists) see it in a very specific light. Once people correlate a symbol with a certain movement or point of view, it will be difficult to change that. A large part of the Pagan community is still fighting to take back smaller and lesser known symbols that have been used by the Nazi party, but the “big one” is lost forever.
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I’m sure that within those regions and communities, the use of that version of the sunwheel has a strong, long-standing association with Buddhism. Unfortunately the rest of the world did not, and most of us will instantly associate it with Nazi history. Some of us know about the Buddhist history of the symbol, but I’m not gonna be the one to wear a swastika and explain how it’s not a Nazi symbol to every person that I see.
I know that the symbol has a historical meaning, and in Europe it was used as a sunwheel. I know that the Hammer and Sickle is a symbol of the working class. The problem is the propaganda against the Hammer and Sickle as a symbol of the people.
TLDR: propaganda and history has changed the meaning of these symbols to the view of the average person.
No, it represents oppression, suffering, imperialism, torture, famine, etc.
Because those are the contexts it’s been proudly sported. For half of the Europe, it’s as bad as a swastika. And it’s use is often forbidden by law outside historical contexts.