Reply #85: Ah, my friend, the swastika is a religious symbol whose origin was thousands of years before Hitler.

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It still has religions uses unrelated to nazism or similar groups.

A rational and informed Jew would not be offended by its use in an Indian temple or religious ceremony (though he might be disturbed by the associations it raised in his mind.)

In a religious ceremony in India it means one thing; as a tattoo on the arm of a white guy from the US or Europe, it almost certainly means something else.

What you think of as a difference is just another similarity.

Most Nazis don't try to pretend that they are practitioners of Jainism to explain their tattoos. Some southern heritage types aren't so honest about the reason for their flag waving, but they are just as transparent.