The "liberal elite"

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213. It's deeply offensive.

A close friend of mine who wears a pendant had someone ask her if she "hated Jewish people". The Jewish people of my acquaintance are not participating in this ignorance, they know better.

From what I've sen, the sensitivity that's acknowledged is that it makes white Christian people upset. Saw it first hand when I was helping some relatives with their newly delivered custom carved doors from India, the workmen were extremely upset and apologizing when they showed us the doors they had just uncrated before we got to the work site. I had to explain to them that the swastika carved on the book at Ganesha's feet wasn't an act of vandalism, but a symbol of good fortune found in every Hindu home and on sacred texts and puja articles.

I keep wondering why when the Nazis deface property by spray painting swastikas, they don't just go to the local indian store, pick up kumkum and turmeric and purify the symbol and take it back.

When the priest did the puja for my car, he painted a swastika in turmeric on it, he told me after that I could go wash it because he understood how crazy "the Americans" are and not to risk my safety by leaving it as would have been customary.

I think it's truly insane how much we need to bend and slant and deny ourselves to accommodate the ignorant. I have literally never had a single one of my Jewish friends, even the ones with a family history that would excuse a hatred of the symbol, express the implied insults that I see from some progressives. The whole "well it means something different now" speaks of such Eurocentric blindness and total ignorance, that I am shocked to see it coming from people proclaiming themselves progressives. It's truly sad how poor our education system is that we don't teach children the basics about the cultures of our species (or much reading, writing, science and math either.)