Brooklyn Jewelry Store Defends Swastika Earrings As Politicians Pile On
After news of a Greenpoint jewelry store selling swastika earrings made news yesterday, area politicians wasted no time heaping on the outrage. It's good red meat for the base, but there's just one problem: the symbol—which as we noted yesterday, predates the Nazis by thousands of years—isn't the same one that Hitler used. There has been plenty of analysis about this, but if you look closely (below), the differences are undeniable. Whereas the Nazi symbol is angled in the shape of a diamond, the symbol when used in Tibetan Buddhism is oriented as a square. And, more importantly, the branches of the symbol are reversed for the Nazi sign. But whatever, outrage! [ more › ]
Brooklyn Jewelry Store Defends Swastika Earrings As Politicians Pile On
John Del Signore
Wed, 11 Jan 2012 19:18:00 GMT
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