User blog comment:Godisme/Swastika Break/@comment-44061-20110218041936/@comment-1393830-20110218051407

The Swastika, like it or not is taboo. My father and thus an entire half of my family is Jewish. As Salubri said, we know that the symbol has a positive connotation but the mass populous does not. They only know that it was a symbol of the nazi party. I took german for many years and one of our assignments included drawing, mine required a swastika in the background and my father, seeing it, got noticeably upset. We know that the symbol is actually positive but it is connected to horrible evils that cannot be overlooked. As I said, I was hesitant to put the chapter title as the name of my blog this week because of it. It needs to be treated sensitively as to not offend but at the same time its true meaning should be acknowledged.