Just look at the centre of the original logo, if you think people are imaging things you’re probably not as visually literate as you imagine. People going through complicated lengths to explain away what is clearly visible is probably what leads to so many accidental swastikas in the first place. Like this one: https://goo.gl/images/1sFrjp
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My favourite accidental swastika is the 1992-3 Fiorentina away shirt
Fiorentina fans have a reputation for being left leaning, so it didn’t go down well. It lasted one game before being redesigned and the originals destroyed.
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I remember seeing a giant billboard with the logo on the left when I was in Toronto playing in the Skydome. I was like - what the fuck?
So… it’s literally just the Google Photos logo turned 180º and made into bubbles?
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Interesting. I didn’t know that they had any presence in Toronto.
Me neither! This was like 1998 or 1999. I think I went home and looked them up and walked away with “weird alien cult”.
It’s unmistakably the City of Montreal logo, is what it is. Four little hearts.
I think it was John Oliver or Trevor Noah who said the Confederate flag is pretty stylin’ from a design point of view?
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Is there an actual Unicode swastika?
卍
Jesus, I guess so. I’m just going to borrow this from another thread:
https://global.discourse-cdn.com/boingboing/original/4X/8/7/b/87b7be8e7e2cd932affe5449dba69dc16e30d721.gif
Because unicode is, you know, supposed to be universal, not just western, and meany eastern cultures use it as part of their religion.
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Oh, right, that’s the “lefty-lucky” version, isn’t it? Honestly, I wasn’t aware of that distinction until today.
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Just to be clear, the right facing one is also part of eastern religions. If you want to be pedantic only one rotated 45 degrees is a Nazi swastika.
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There are plenty of left wing antidotes in unicode.
Ⓐ⚑☭
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you usually feel it before you see it. 
i quite liked their old logo. it was beautiful and distinctive and immediatly recognizable. Hashtags are used in most msg apps, the relevance is more appropriate and widely known now days than it ever was back in the IRC heyday. #stillused
Wow. I’m almost impressed. That logo isn’t messing around.
Must have been a lot of jews on that design committee. \s
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That may be the best decision you have made today
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There. I fixed it for you. 
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Even the reverse facing one was considered lucky and a popular art deco motif, even in the US, until the 30s. Several Native American tribes used it, as well as several brands as a logo or for good fortune. I have a screw driver with one on it, but it was made in the early 1900s. It was also a Christian cross and found in a variety of forms across many cultures and one of the oldest symbols out there. But then the Nazis ruined it.
But the left facing one is still common in Asia.
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Again, I agree. As a kid, before I knew any history of the Civil War, I thought the CSA flag looked a lot better than the USA flag, which seemed like it was designed-by-committee (and I guess was, more or less.)
Are those hearts, or butts?
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I know it makes me a bad American (and I don’t care) but to be honest, damn near every flag is aesthetically better than the USA flag.
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