Unfathomable... Tattooing a Swastika on your Face

Lysander said:
If it is a Nazi swastika than of course she realises its implications and offence. It is there to advertise her views, to exhibit her confidence in her beliefs, to gain support from the likeminded and to directly offend those who oppose it.
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Not at all, to make attention yes, the other stuff. depends why she had it.

For example and for teh third time
http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2009/jul/31/richard-herring-standup-comedian-brian-logan

Does this automatically make him a neo nazi with all their beliefs. I think not.
 
SMN said:
Swastika is a well known hindu symbol:

HinduSwastika.svg


I'm guessing the woman in OP isnt a hindu?

Edit: Quick google shows its relevant to many religions: Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism.
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You know whats funny about this, my mum used to have hindu swastikas all over our house in hindu art and books, and I never knew anything whatsoever about its connection to nazism or hitler.

One day in my hindu / gujerati classes, I felt like drawing one as a doodle in my book.

My HINDU teacher saw it and raged because its a nazi symbol, and I was like 'WTF, I thought it was something to do with hinduism??? WTH is a nazi?'

I was well confused on that day.
 
AcidHell2 said:
Not at all, to make attention yes, the other stuff. depends why she had it.
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If it is a Nazi swastika then she's a fascist, end of story.

The Herring example isn't a particularly great one because it's not permanent. You can't compare someone who has a permanent swastika tattoo to someone [a popular comedian at that] who wears a Hitler moustache for a day or two. Come on.
 
You have no idea if it's permanent unless you got up nice and close to tell what it was.
And when you say popular, few people knew who he was and he got loads of grief for it.
 
If someone took the cross of Jesus Christ, massacred millions and chose to use it as a symbol on their flags/tanks/uniforms, I don't suppose the millions and millions of christians in the world would stop wearing the cross as jewellery, having it tattood, worshipping it etc.

The Sanskrit (Swastika) is recorded as going back several thousand years BC, serves as a symbol in several religions and has a variety of meanings. Just because someone used it in their regime of torture and genocide, and individuals and organisations in recent western culture have used it to symbolise their hatred, doesn't mean you should be ignorant enough to associate it with that when you have no knowledge of a persons beliefs.

It's as bad as saying head-scarfs represent suicide bombers, terrorists and extremists, which is only a very recent misinterpretation.

I'm sure the religions that do use the Swastika in their worship aren't happy at what has become of it.
 
Adam said:
Why would anyone get a tattoo regardless if it's a swastika or otherwise?
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I have three tattoo's, it was an era of rebellion and stupidity for two of them!. However one tattoo i'd never part with, if i can turn back time i'd never have them done personally.
 
When I was young (a long time ago now) , I considered getting one as a statement of rebellion and individualism, in the end I didn't though. Now looking back I'm glad I didn't as they have become so commonplace that these days its almost more of a statement of rebellion and individualism to NOT have a tattoo.
 
Deific said:
If someone took the cross of Jesus Christ, massacred millions and chose to use it as a symbol on their flags/tanks/uniforms, I don't suppose the millions and millions of christians in the world would stop wearing the cross as jewellery, having it tattood, worshipping it etc.

The Sanskrit (Swastika) is recorded as going back several thousand years BC, serves as a symbol in several religions and has a variety of meanings. Just because someone used it in their regime of torture and genocide, and individuals and organisations in recent western culture have used it to symbolise their hatred, doesn't mean you should be ignorant enough to associate it with that when you have no knowledge of a persons beliefs.
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I don't think that's a particularly good point either. I was taught Sanskrit from the ages of 4 to 16 and have very strong beliefs in Hinduism but I would still think twice or thrice before getting a Hindu swastika tattoo. These days 99% of people associate them with the Nazi regime and that's something you have to take onboard before having a swastika tattooed on your body. You would have to be prepared for a lot of misinterpretations and hatred. It's not other peoples' fault that the [reversed] symbol was popularised by Hitler, it's just the way things are. It's not for other people to do the groundwork on the symbols you depict on your own body.

If I were to ever get a Hindu swastika it would be on an area of the body which wasn't so open - in spite of my beliefs if would just be asking for trouble. Another reason why this girl had a Nazi swastika - and had no shame in it.
 
Round here a couple years back we had a local nutter who had an Swastika tattooed on his forehead. (Proper Nazi one too, tilted etc).

Anyhow, he had it for a couple of weeks then decided to SAND PAPER it off.

As I said he was a nutter.
 
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