Comment Don't let them keep taking new symbols (Score 1) 495
The real, the biggest problem with this is letting the far right take new symbols and corrupt them. Drinking milk, pictures of Pepe the frog, the ok symbol, etc.
The swastika is basically beyond redemption today but it was one of the first stolen - thieved from the Romans along with the eagle and the imperial salute to the Emperor and a lot of other imagery and so on.
That salute became the nazi salute but it was once also a common pagan symbol used to greet the sun every morning. - Not many pagans doing the 'nazi' salute to the morning sun today.
Sometimes it does go the other way, the EU flag looks almost exactly like the circle of stars of the US nazi party flag. But then we could joke about the EU having dictatorial Hitlerian tendencies itself. (Imagines a line of children doing the nazi salute to the EU flag while the Ode To Joy plays in the background.)