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Originally posted by Holo
So this maligned symbol marched all those people to their deaths by itself?
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No, but the people wearing the swastikas were the ones starving people to death and gassing them.
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No one here was in those camps so none of us can really claim being personally traumatized by the symbol. You may have a reaction due to ancestors who died under this Nazi-stolen symbol but unless you were beat down by neo-Nazis with the swastika in view you can't really claim personal trauma. And I stand by my point; this symbol was only used by the Nazi Party for like 20 years or so.
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I never claimed I was personally traumatized by the camps. However I do posses a something called empathy. This means that I can imagine what another person's emotions may be in certain circumstances. Of course I could never comprehend the terrors of what happened in those camps. However I can partially imagine what it would feel like having to leave your home, having your family split up, starve in a concentration camp, then come home and hear that your family has been executed. All this was done by people wearing swastikas. Guess what? After an experience like that I would would despise swastikas.
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But given the facts presented in this thread do not judge me for my usage of it.
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You're absolutely right. The fact is that the people wearing the swastika murdered about 6 million Jews.