Evil Swastica Navy Building...
 

http://www.voxfux.com/images/swastica_building.jpg

http://www.switched.com/2007/09/26/g...ment-building/

oh lolz..

So?
It is Apollo's sign, Buddhist symbol, Hopi sign, Hindu symbol, was Yale's sports team's symbol... people need to get over it.
Freaking-out over symbols and words is what gives them power over you.

actually there are a LOT of buildings in Taipei with swastikas on them or with a swastika design.

It was a buddhist/hindu luck symbol for thousands of years before one german madman went and ruined it for everyone, you know.

Nonetheless, enough uproar has been going on that the Navy has already said they will be spending $600,000 to alter the building's appearance from the air. Your tax dollars at work, baby.

Isn't there a difference in the signs? The one for peace is reversed from the one that the Nazis used right? Or maybe I'm wrong.

And I wasn't freaking out...I just found it funny.

Disgusting.
I am disgusted.

Now that's something to freak out about.

it certainly seems like a very functional building design to me.
so fuckin' what if it looks vaguely like a simple geometric figure that was once used as a symbol for a country that had leaders that thought things that we dont agree with?

Get over yourselves, america.

I'd like to point out, for my own sake, that I put the "Evil" in Evil Swastica Navy Building as means of sarcasm and I do not actually believe that the building is evil.

There are quite a few buildings and other structures that utilize the same pattern. Google's full of them.

i give up trying to post threads...

points, you should understand that rkzenrage is a complete asshole, and you should disregard his judgmental tone. just FYI. kthxbye

Jeez. A bit overkill, if you ask me.

And a compliment coming from him.
I think it is a great thread, we need to know about this kind of lunacy and to discuss these attitudes.
Many people are under the mistaken belief that words and symbols can "harm" them, especially old ones with multiple meanings.
The discussion that one must choose what titles they accept and what images and words harm them is always a good one.

Don't, that's what makes a forum survive and thrive; new threads. I'm sure I've made an ass of myself on here before but that doesn't stop me from participating. This is quite a unique community, don't give up on it just yet.