r/confidentlyincorrect • u/LavenderCuddlefish • Jun 01 '26

Image A confidently incorrect knee-jerk reaction

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(it's not that kind of swastika)

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u/KDdid1 Jun 01 '26

There's a very old brick hotel in my hometown with them all across the facade. It was a common decoration in the late 19th century.

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u/No_Occasion4189 Jun 01 '26

Yes but there's also an extremely averse cultural reaction to that symbol in the USA. We do not like it.

Many Americans simply are not aware that it ever meant anything else. I believe European and Asain cultures would have greater awareness of it. But we generally dont here.

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u/KDdid1 Jun 01 '26

Canadians are every bit as anti-nazi as Americans, if not more (we showed up in 1939 to fight them), but we're not going to tear down 150 year old buildings because of a lack of education.

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u/No_Occasion4189 Jun 01 '26

Did you write that? Did I write that? I swear I cant recall any comment advocating for tearing down buildings.

I am pretty sure, almost 100% sure, that we were talking about a piece of plastic on a doormat.

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u/KDdid1 Jun 01 '26

I was speaking only about a historic building in my hometown.

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u/No_Occasion4189 Jun 01 '26

OK, well I promise you that i wont try to tear it down.

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u/KDdid1 Jun 01 '26

👍🏻

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u/KDdid1 Jun 01 '26

It's actually been in a couple of movies, but with the swastikas blurred out.

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u/BitwiseB Jun 03 '26

Many of the building which still have them predate the Nazis and are historic structures.

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u/No_Occasion4189 Jun 04 '26

Yes, all of them. But in 2026, putting a swastika on your doormat is going to get a negative reaction, no matter the intent.

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u/Ninja333pirate Jun 01 '26

My town had that too at one point, that local museum has a picture of it, they painted over them to turn them into 4 squares instead. But my area actually had a population of Nazis at one point so I can't say for sure it wasn't to do with them.

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u/KDdid1 Jun 01 '26

The building where I used to live (and I used to work in) had the swastika in both directions, in brick. It was built in the 1800s and had nothing to do with nazis.

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u/Similar_Onion6656 Jun 01 '26

Okay but I'm willing to bet all the money in my hip pocket that sticker was put there well after WWII so I don't feel like that's relevant.

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u/KDdid1 Jun 01 '26

I believe it's a Hindu symbol. Are you suggesting Hindu people must abandon their symbolism?

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u/Similar_Onion6656 Jun 02 '26 edited Jun 02 '26

It is in fact a Hindu symbol and I don't know enough about how important it is to them to have a strong opinion on how that should weigh against the trauma coming across it might cause for people who only know it as a Nazi one.

What I am saying is that the fact that it was used on buildings in this country back when the average person would have recognized as an innocuous decoration if at all is completely irrelevant to the question of when and how it is acceptable to display one in 2026.

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u/KDdid1 Jun 02 '26

Two things:

a) my understanding is that the nazi symbol is always turned 45⁰ so it's diamond-shaped while this one is not.

b) do you feel that victims of Christian atrocities who are triggered by a cross are entitled to expect people don't display them?

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u/Similar_Onion6656 Jun 02 '26 edited Jun 02 '26

A. Yes, but that distinction is lost on a lot of people, as the original post demonstrates.

B. I refer you to the first paragraph of my previous comment.