Trouble today at school......

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Well today at school in P.E Theory I was just scribbling on my hand and I just drew a Swastika, the weird symbol thingies that the Nazis used, well the teacher got pretty angry and made me wash it off, yet for some dumb reason there was no soap!, so it kinda took ages, I talked to my aspie friends, I got about 7 here at my school , and they didn't really say much other than its just a symbol, it hasn't really got a meaning anymore, but after school i told my mum and she said I should check its previous meanings, I checked and it turned out they had no reason to be angry, before WW2 it was used in both Buhhdism and Hinduism as a symbol of Well-being and depending on the way it faces, Strength and Wisdom or Love and Mercy, so really theres nothing wrong with it, what do you guys think

It's a very attractive symbol. Kind of a shame that it's most widely associated with Nazis now.

It still is used in Hinduism and Buddhism.

EEEE! Well way back in the beginnings of time I was at school. Our headmaster was lucky to escape from Germany in the 1930's (although we all believed him to actually be Adolph) My friend (Yes he was one of the white hats) had with a small cleak of 3 or 4 boys had decided they were going to be the schools chapter of Hells Angels these 'friends' (and I suspect most of us have had this kind of 'friend') gave him his initiation and he had a fine set of colours adorned all over with swastikas and stunk a like real hells angel ( I believe the recipe was Marmite and urine). Anyway he came to discussion (one of my schools many rituals, this one was once a week where the whole school (the staff and all 50 of us) attended a meeting and performed some sort of group therapy between us) and as a hells angel there was no way he was not going to wear his colours. Quite understandably our headmaster threw one of his legendary fits of rage, my friend just happened to be Jewish I really cannot imagine how upsetting he (my headmaster) must have found it.
To me it is just a symbol I know in one direction it is a sun symbol of Buddhist and Hindu tradition and in the other a symbol of totalitarian intolerance but I am hopeless about directions (I hear my BF screaming at me "I mean the other left" <G> ) at the end of the day it is just a symbol, a very loud one, try making patterns on a 5 x 5 grid and see what comes out but the association with Nazi Germany must never be forgotten and the evil is not only the action of the evil but the inaction of the good.
Much later in life I found it a little weird when a work colleague gave me an invitation to his wedding decorated with swastikas (the Hindu kind).

You will find everywhere the swastika will fill people with strong emotion.
It is quite understandable that it is so and important to never let it happen again remember the Nazi's were democratically elected by a democratic country.

I just think its a nice symbol, just like the universal symbol of chaos is a nice one, and I forgot to put that Buhhdists and Hindus still use it, thanks for chorrecting me though

From District of Columbia in America I am not Jewish. However, your school faculty and administrators are upset in respects of those who follow Jewish faiths. First think about what Hitler did. I visited the Holocaust Memorial museum over the summer and It was my first time crying in a museum at the stuff that I saw.

But the Symbol isn't Hitlers, and the way I had it was not how Hitlers was, I know what Hitler did and Infact my background is jewish, My Dad's side of the family are from poland, It has no meaning to me

Well, the Western world wasn't introduced to the Swastika through Hinduism, but through Hitler who killed millions of people (Jews, Gays, Gypsies, the Handicapped, etc. etc.). That was also pretty recent history....the mid 1940s.

Hinduism also isn't a very popular religion in the Western world either, so it still isn't seen as a religious symbol today. In fact, in a few European countries, and Israel, you probably would've had criminal charges put on you for drawing the Swasi on your hand.

Soo....almost everyone in the West regards it as a horrible Nazi symbol of hatred (especially against Jews), and some people will take horrible offense to it....thinking you're a Neo-Nazi (Even some people who aren't Jewish can be really hypersensetive about it). I think the school was trying to prevent that from happening.

Swastikas aren't something to joke about. If you need information about the holocaust then go on the internet and read about it. Then you probably would understand why people don't joke about them.