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Originally Posted by Trip
Doesn't bother me either way, but the SS was a vicious group and wanting to wear a logo similar to it is too much for a government entity.
Atheists and other groups are basically doing the same thing removing ten commandments and other religious logos/symbols from government entities.
Basically this country does not tolerate people getting butt hurt anymore. If you butt hurt someone, you must change whatever you are doing.
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The question becomes, "Which symbol came first?" If it's the double SS "sieg sieg" then its use should go, no matter what the "heritage" of it is for the snipers. If they've been using it since the 1800s, then that's a different story.
Then again the swastika has been around for millennia, in dozens of disparate cultures. From the late 1800s up to WWII it was found on popular items, as a pseudo mystical symbol. There are tons of lighters, rings, money clips, you name it from England, Scotland, Ireland, France.... bearing that symbol. Now it has just one meaning, in popular culture.
On the other hand, the "Biblification" of America is a fairly recent thing. "In God We Trust" wasn't on money for almost a hundred years, after the nation was founded. "One nation, under God" wasn't in the Pledge of Allegiance, until the mid-1950s.
Not exactly what the Founding Fathers had in mind, for your country.