On Do, 2016-01-07 at 18:14 -0500, Anthony Walter wrote:
> > Napoleon conquered the world some 200 years ago. That is long enough as
> nobody seems to have strong negative association with his actions
> 
> Follow this link if you want to see why WW2, and by extension the people
> who created it and the symbols they used, is such a big deal:
> 
> http://www.fallen.io/ww2/
> 
> In short, WW2 resulted in more deaths than any event in human history
> including the Black Death, the Napoleonic wars, the great Flu Pandemic of
> 1918, and Pol Pot anti intellectualism cleansing or chairman Mao's program
> of cultural cleansing.

You at least forget about Thirty Years' War.

>  I have five uncles, on both my mother's and father's
> side, who fought and died in WW2. When I've visited their graves in France
> and Hawaii everyone I met seemed to a good understanding of the war's cost
> in human life on both sides, and also the new connotations symbols like the
> Swastika had taken, for better or worse.

That very sad. But to boil down all this on one Symbol is much to
simple. And ignoring all other uses of a symbol is intolerant.

> Even if you like the shape of the Nazi style Swastika, and have
> appreciation of its history in Finland, most everyone in the developed
> Western world now recognizes it as a symbol of Nazism, and by extension a
> symbol of prejudicial racism and hate.

All of that has nothing to do with an internationally used programming
project.

-- 
Marc Santhoff <m.santh...@web.de>


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