I thought of replying to @LDoBe’s post, but decided to not bother. In my daily life, I don’t bother to publicize that I am very much pro-swastika - while finding no contradiction with my positions of being anti-nazi, anti-racist, etc. Unlike the confederate battle flag, which (so far as I know) refers to only the former CSA, the swastika has been used in many different cultural contexts for millennia. But people in the US have very immediate kneejerk reactions to seeing it, and rarely consider that not only was it’s use not exclusive to nazis, but also that nazi uses are a small minority. I can only suppose that there must have been a huge propaganda campaign against the symbol around WWII, because the response is nearly Pavlovian.
If the nazis instead appropriated a symbol more exclusive to Abrahamic religions to pervert, I very much doubt that westerners would agree that it was somehow more sensitive to retire it, essentially giving it up to it’s misunderstood meaning. But since since anti-swastika campaigns also alienate billions of people with weird eastern dharmic religions, that was probably seen as more of a bonus than an oversight.
