POWER OF SYMBOLS:
THE SWASTIKA CONTROVERSY

What is your reaction to this symbol?

This swastika is here to show a curious occurance in Canada today. Certain forces are trying to eliminate all use of the swastika, on the grounds that it is an evil symbol of hatred and death. Anyone in Canada that dares display it runs the risk of being branded a Nazi. With expanded Human Rights Legislation, it might be possible that the mere display of of it could get one charged with a Human rights violation, if anyone viewing it feels harrassed or threatened. Can a mere symbol be considered to promote hatred? Can a symbol do harm to anyone, merely by viewing it. Well, the answer is YES, in Canada anyway.

The swastika in the form represented is a symbol of the National Socialist (Nazi) Party of Adolf Hitler. Its presence evokes universal scorn and rage.

Is your reaction to this symbol the same?
If not, why not?

What i find interesting is that there is another symbol in wide spread use in Canada today that represents an ideology and system that has been responsible for the deaths of at least 10 times as many people as Nazism has. My question... Why is this other symbol not equally reviled and disgraced? Our local newspaper the St Catharines Standard recently carried a picture of a local youth wearing this other evil symbol of death, yet there was no hue and cry... no special interest groups were clamoring for an explanation as to why this picture was allowed in our local paper. Is there an underlying politcal bias in this country responsible for this curious discrepancy...I don't know... but one can suspcect

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