Look at this emblem. It has a swastika in the middle.
I find this very offensive and request that it is removed, and that whoever made the emblem is fired. This is something horrible to do.
EDIT: If you can't see it, move your head away from the screen as you look at the emblem.
EDIT2: Yes, at [i]one[/i] time this was a sign of peace. Now it's not.
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A brief history lesson because your second edit is bothering me. The word "swastika" comes from the Sanskrit svastika - "su" meaning "good," "asti" meaning "to be," and "ka" as a suffix. The swastika was used by many cultures throughout the past 3,000 years to represent life, sun, power, strength, and good luck. The [url=http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law]-godwinslaw!-[/url] adopted this symbol, but reversed the direction of its arms. The counter-clockwise version gained popularity among German anti-Semitic groups through the writings of Guido von List and Lanz von Liebenfels, who took the symbol of good fortune and universal harmony, and used it to denote unconquerable Germanic hero. So in other words, they are two separate symbols with two separate meanings.