Dec 24, 2015, 6:03 PM

@Thenomain said:

@Coin said:

@Three-Eyed-Crow said:

@Coin said:

This is true--in Asia.

It's true in a lot of Native American tribes in America as well. My first job out of college was in a Res town and, even having lived in the West all my life, I was surprised by how often it popped up in art and older drawings (there was a fairly big 'whirling log' style one on a bridge in town). I got used to it (the context is so very clearly divorced from anything related to Nazism), and I now just find it depressing how thoroughly it was co-opted.

Even if it were public knowledge that this particular symbol was part of Native American symbology, it would get buried handily under the more common, archetypical, sanitized shit like feather headdresses and arrows and shit.

Did you know that "gay" really means happy? Any non-definitive use of it is based on culture and therefore nobody else is allowed to get upset by its use and blah blah blare barf garble blee.

Did you know that "bad" has probable roots in the Old English "bǣddel", meaning "hermaphrodite; womanish man"?

Gives a whole new context to people using "gay" torefer to something they don't like. Almost like linguistic history repeating itself!

Not that I support it, but I do find it fascinating.