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> -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
