#tw // swastika

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gee thanks tumblr what a wonderful ad im so glad you decided to show me this

[artistotel]

a new painting! on sale for 50€ + shipping!

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[exdeputysonso]

Brad Dourif as Cyrus | El Padrino (2004)

[a-gnosis]

I've really been around quite a lot this summer. Last Friday me and a friend went to Ornässtugan ("the Ornäs house") in Dalarna. It was built by a wealthy mine owner in the early 16th century and its loft served as a guesthouse. 1758 it was turned into a museum, which makes it the second oldest museum in Sweden. The exhibition centers around king Gustav Vasa and the stories of how he as a young nobleman came to Ornässtugan in 1520 when he was on the run from the Danish king Kristian II. The visit ended with Gustav fleeing through Ornässtugan’s outhouse with the help of Barbro Stigsdotter, the wife of the owner. Or so the story was told by the people, anyway.

What interested me, though, was all the magic and folklore that had been carved into the walls to protect the building. This was supposedly done because it lacked a fireplace, and fire is usually a good protection against evil spirits. On one door you could see that the wood had been burnt around the lock, to symbolize fire. There was also a sun cross, or swastika, carved beside the door (too bad the Nazis ruined this symbol forever).

[devilsrains]

akira (1982-1990) illustrated by katsuhiro otomo

[antisemitism-us]

[tsalmu]

Basalt Relief with Swastika and Geometric Designs Aleppo, Syria (?) c. 800 BCE(?)

Housed in the Syria-Aleppo Museum

[sideblogfornothing]

Ok that's fucking traumatizing wtf

That caught me so off guard 😭 that's a good post but holy shit I don't think I could stomach looking at that in my notifs again

[thegenderfluidgokenin]

READ THIS!!!

The Swastik is an ancient Hindu-Buddhist symbol of eternal peace. It has been used for centuries by many different religions, far before the brutal Nazi regeime. It is also an extremely prevalent part of Japanese history, being used from temples to Samurai crests.

The Japanese government has been trying faze out this symbol for a while now, and it concerns me as even i have been attacked on other platforms for using a symbol dear to me as both a student of Yamato's history and a Buddhist.

We cannot let a decade of hell destroy thousands of years of sacred worship, we cannot let Facism taint the most tolerant religion in the world, and by Gods we cannot let it drown out asian history.

THAT'S WHAT HITLER WOULD HAVE WANTED.

[kittenwithabass]

fucking what

FUCKING WHAT.

[drippywing]

sometimes I think about the tsunami design with the swastikas on her wings

[throwaway-blog5]

In retrospect, the whole "Dabi drawn in a Nazi uniform" dibacle was wild and a bit dumb?

Bc this was the evidence.

Dabi wearing a military uniform with an eagle in the cap.

EAGLES ARE COMMON SYMBOLS ON MILITARY UNIFORMS?!??

Syria

Russia

India

Total Canadian Air Force cap badge

EAGLES ARE COMMON SYMBOLS ON MILITARY UNIFORMS.

I CANNOT STRESS THIS ENOUGH.

And if the artist really REALLY wanted to depict this eagle specifically,

Why didn't they make the bottom round.

It's all jagged more like tail feathers than you know, a circle with a swastika in it. It honestly looks more like the Indian example on the top left than a Nazi uniform hat.

[gay-jewish-bucky]

@magnetothemagnificent replied to your post “yall want to see some tankie bullshit??”:

THE FUCKING SNAKE TOO AS IF SNAKES AREN'T HISTORICAL SYMBOLS OF JEWS

wait till you see that they reblogged it immediately before rb'ing my post about leftist antisemitism, like newsflash about 50% of leftist antisemitism comes from tankies

[mythohumanism]

“Radical centrism” (defined here as grocery shopping around the pol compass, either bc of a) “pragmatic” focus of efficacy over ideology or b) uncertainty about best ideology and thus a willingness to try anything to get to one’s goal) is a terrible name for what is clearly Radical Syncretic Politics (“RadSync”). Grocery shopping across the political spectrum is self-evidently not (necessarily) centrist. Syncretists don’t (all) get the bullet (can I say this on tumbler)

(Though obviously a Syncretist who uses policies from all across the compass to reinforce the status quo can exist, and describing that person as a syncretic centrist would make sense. But that would be as a subtype of a syncretist, NOT a “radical” centrist - point is, syncCents arent the only worldview that values pragmatism and anti-ideological sentiment)

Further; (I keep editing this bc I love this post), a True “radical centrist” would explicitly Reject syncretic politics! A radical “extremist” (pseudo-extremist? Exclusionary? Absolutist? Ideological?) anti-extremist would oppose any non-centrist politics. They would reject anything outside of the status quo, and they may even do so violently! See images below for the difference between a bog standard moderate (left) and a committed radical anti-extremist, or maybe “Neo-centrist” (right).

[devilsrains]

aoike character guide book

character guide; justin ray / virgil word / heath eason

[wecandoit]

TW : swastika, nazis

Oh and swastika appropriation from various ancient culture and completely basterdization by the nazis. And should those culture continue using the symbol that was a deeply ingrained part of their culture. It's a really multidimensional topic doncha think

OMG yes this is something I've been intrigued by for a long time, bc how do they decide that one event in history defines the existence of a symbol or artifact, disregarding any and all historical and cultural meaning other than that? where do you draw the line? idk food for thought ig