The forgotten history of the "Hitler" salute to the American flag

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6. It wasn't an evil Nazi salute until

it was accepted as belonging to them.

It's a symbol. It's got no inherent meaning.

We think of "c" as having a specific use. "Car" or "cell". In some Slavic languages, it's a "ts" sound, as in "lets". In others, it's only an "s" sound. It's a symbol. It means what a community of users takes it to mean. If you have two different communities, it has two different meanings. There is no "one single meaning," regardless of what language dictators like to say. Accepting just that little bit of humility would go a long way to becoming reasonable.

What is hard is that if you're raised with a symbol it's hard to accept this and hard to change them. (But we assume we're always right and others are always wrong. That's just being human.)