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fandomsecrets2007-08-04 05:31 pm
case) wrote in fandomsecrets2007-08-04 05:31 pm
[ SECRET POST #211 ]
⌈ Secret Post #211 ⌋
Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.
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Notes:
Off to the Epik High concert! Have some emopuppy if you want → ♥
Secrets Left to Post: 06 pages, 140 secrets from Secret Submission Post #031.
Secrets Not Posted: 0 broken links, 0 not!secrets, 0 not!fandom, [ 1 2 ] repeat.
Next Secret Post: Tomorrow, Sunday, August 5th, 2007.
Current Secret Submission Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.
Re: 22
Re: your first point: I think the only person who is forgetting that the swastika as a religious/sacred symbol does not, in fact, look like the Nazi-Hakenkreuz is the OP themselves. Did the OP of secret 22 differentiate between the swastikas? No they did not. Instead they just made a blanket statement saying that all swastikas are symbols of hate when this is CLEARLY not the case. The OP's secret re: swastikas smacks of ignorance, frankly speaking.
I, for one, have drawn the swastika repeatedly. Do I feel queasy and sacred? You can bet your ass I do. I sure as hell feel sacred. Even if I'm drawing it on the other side of the planet, in the vicinity of my grandparents' house, I still fear that some ignorant tourist is going to come my way and label me as anti-Semitic just because they can't differentiate between the Nazi-Hakenkreuz and the swastika as a religious symbol.
Why should I (or anyone else reading your comment) have reason to respect it when you don't seem to respect what the symbol means in OTHER parts of the world?
Respect goes BOTH ways. Honestly.
Re: 22
As to the other part of your comment - I understand where you're coming from and I respect this of course. I redirect you here (http://community.livejournal.com/fandomsecrets/67118.html?thread=9212462#t9212462) to the reply I gave the other person who replied to my comment, though.
As an additional note - I do have respect for what it means in other parts of the world. I cannot, however, overcome what I've been taught all my life, what I was possibly born with, and I believe that such a thing as the genocide that happened under the 45° swastika should not be ignored even in the light of different social rules and customs.
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Is that what you call respect? By the same token, why would I ever have reason to care what the swastika means now or in the part of the world where you come from?
It's a good thing I'm not really like that, and that in fact I DO care.
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Yes, the secret is an overlay of Hitler. Why would I assume the OP meant anything other than a 45-degree Nazi swastika? Well, it might be because of this statement right here: A swastika is not a fashion accessory. It is a symbol of hate.
That? Is a BLANKET statement. It does NOT differentiate between the Nazi swastika and the religious/sacred swastika. What that statement does is claim that ALL swastikas are of the pro-genocide nature when that is NOT true. I doubt the OP realized there were different forms of a swastika before posting their secret, and it's ignorance like that that makes me fearful of being able to practice my own culture freely.
THAT is why I'm so "bent out of shape". I've broken it down as much as I possibly could, so I hope you understand now. If you don't, sorry, I don't know how else to explain it.
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