----- Original Message ----- From: "Julia Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 11:00 AM Subject: Re: Who is the sheriff?
> "Horn, John" wrote: > > > > > From: Doug Pensinger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > Why? Hitler and Nazism symbolize more than the holocaust. I > > > associate > > > fascism, secret police and several other nasty things with > > > him and his > > > regime. > > > > > > I think it's in poor taste but not anti-Semitic. > > > > (It's taken me a long time to get a chance to answer this one...) > > > > It seems to me that 99 times out 100, when you see a swastica it is being > > used in either an anti-Semitic or racist manner and is being used to > > intimedate. > > In the US, certainly. In other parts of the world, no. Gotta keep these > things in context. > IIRC, the swastika used by the Nazis is unique. The Hindu symbol points in the opposite direction. Dan M. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
