Historical Artifacts

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Ring of an officer in the 5th (V) 'Macedonian' Legion, with swastikas as decoration or good-luck symbols, gold, Roman Empire, ~200 AD (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago

If you're so concerned about Nazis then stop calling it swastika and start calling it hooked cross cause that's the proper name, hakenkreuz. It's a Christian symbol.

English speaking colonizers chose to associate Nazi symbol with non-white religions by using a Sanskrit name, for some reason.