Reply #52: "why it was ORIGINALLY used" isn't how it's seen by everyone today

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The swastika wasn't originally a Nazi symbol, either.

I've been down this road on DU before... The confederate flag, like it or not, offends many people as a racist symbol. At least where I live, a person who displays an offensive racist symbol is likely to be perceived as an offensive racist, but I was told I'm a 'bigot' for making that assumption and that the flag is seen differently further south.

The same people telling me this said they themselves don't display it anymore though, because it might be 'taken wrong' or misinterpreted -- in other words, some people might be offended by it, and why? Because to many people, it's a racist symbol. It's easy to blame the people who see it that way and call them "ignorant" in their perceptions, but the fact is that people are offended, and that says what it's become.