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Damn right she wants to normalize the swastika, @StopAntisemites. So do over a billion Hindus! Let me take one of @HinduAmerican's articles and explain why. (1/11)
In Sanskrit, the word swastika is a combination of ‘su’ (meaning ‘good’) and ‘asti’ (meaning ‘to exist’). (2/11)
Many Hindus adorn the threshold of the front entrance to their homes with the swastika. (3/11)
There are a variety of symbolic meanings associated with the limbs of the swastika in Hinduism. (4/11)
Other faith traditions originating in India also regularly use the swastika, with similar auspicious meaning. (5/11)
The swastika is one of humanity’s most enduring, ancient symbols. (6/11)
Peoples throughout the world used the swastika. (7/11)
The swastika had a major resurgence of usage in Europe and North America in the 19th century as a good luck symbol. (8/11)
The Nazis appropriated the swastika to represent their notion of Aryan identity. Where they miserably failed is in their understanding of the meaning of the Sanskrit term ‘aryan’. (9/11)
After the horrors committed by the Nazis, there has been a justifiable revulsion to Nazi symbolism, including the Nazi presentation of the swastika. (10/11)
In 2008, at the second Hindu-Jewish Leadership Summit a resolution formally recognized the long positive history of the swastika. (11/11)
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