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Apropos of my previous post. But this one's well known.
It is? IS this the Arbeit Mach Frei Building in Dortmund?
Actually, is it in Swaziland?
No, it's a barracks at Sandy Acres. Coronado to be precise. The Navy didn't notice the shape till after construction in 1967, then figured no one would fly over it anyway so no big deal. Now thanks to internet satellite photos and hordes of sensitive idjits who don't know what a positive symbol the swastika is despite its brief tenure in the armpits of a bunch of simpering Nazi hooligans eighty years ago, the Navy is going to spend half a million dollars to make changes.
http://articles.latimes.com/2007/sep/26/local/me-swastika26
I'm really impressed by how intent the ADL is on perpetuating Hitler's power.
Been meaning to blog about the swastika but I'm too lazy. Our obsession with its allegedly hateful symbolism is disrespectful of the rest of the world's far more positive understanding and I'm sick of our narrow cultural vision.
So much for wordless. :-)
Ooh, and the Times points to a most vocal proponent of changing the layout. I went to their website and they are 9-11 conspiracy theorists who sell videos and books about it being an inside job. WTF?
I can understand being sensitive on behalf of people who were most cruelly victimized by the Nazis, but, ah, aah, aaarhh. I need a fresh cup of tea.
What I don't get is how the 9 11 truth movement would even relate to this. the thing to remember about that crowd is that they are far from being the mob of right wing freaks that the media is trying to portray them as.
9-11 is so fraught with explanations that can't possibly be true, and major inconsistencies that I am completely convinced that what we were told about it is 98% untrue. Look at it objectively for a while and see what you think.
I didn't notice the swastika shape at first but the whole picture is all koyaanisqatsi creepy.
Why is it disrespectful to pay attention to the things closest to us in time and sorrow? To say other more distant things mean more than the things we have experienced?
I once worked in a Jewish hospital. When they took up the carpeting they found beautiful tile floors (lots of Polish masons in these parts) with that design. The floors were laid around 1910. But still, they had to come up. Of course they did.
I agree with Christine. It's nuts to say people should forget the last 80 years and think of the swastika as something else. It is what it is NOW.
What it is NOW is on statues of the Buddha, on Chinese gravestones, in Hindu designs, and yeah also the insignia of those assholes who fooled a pissed off Germany and took over briefly.
We should never forget. Not the last 80 years, nor any time people are dehumanized.
But the reaction we have to it is not universal. All I want is for cross-culturalism to be a positive, not a source of tension, and for AH to lose his grip on the Western zeitgeist.
Maybe I'm over-reacting, and have to be patient. Maybe another 80 years.
I remember being taught in something like 8th grade social studies that the swastika was a Hindu symbol that got co-opted by the Nazis. Depending on which way the arms of the swastika are turned, it represents different things. I have no objections to Hindus and Buddhists using this religious symbol at all...it was one that they used long before the Nazis in the first place. After all who "owns" the rights to religious symbology? (Remember Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and the brouhaha over the painting of the Virgin Mary fashioned out of elephant dung? Or Robert Mapplethorpe's "Piss Christ"?)
It's the same with words: can you "own" words? The genocide of the Jews in Europe under Hitler is called "The Holocaust," but by the formal definition of the word, the bombings of Dresden, Hiroshima and Nagasaki were holocausts, too.
In the last decade, even our own American flag got co-opted by people who in their nationalistic zeal got to decide who was a "real American," to the point that my most lefty-liberal friends would sneer at me for wearing a flag t-shirt in public. My response was always a pointed, "Fuck you, and fuck those people who have made you think that way, this is MY fucking flag, too."
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