Georgia school logo resembling a Nazi symbol sparks outrage

Chet said:
Did the video show the actual logo in question or the Nazi symbol? I can't tell. I'm offended!
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I kept waiting for them to show it, but all they showed was the the Nazi version. I had the feeling that if they showed the school version, it would have been a let down. But maybe not; They never showed it.
 
fuzzybuddy said:
This sounds like a slow news day at the local TV channel. Instead of showing authentic Nazi logos, it might be nice to actually see what the school's logo is.
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It did make me sit through a 30 second ad for something or other so I could never see the actual school symbol. Mistake or not, they should probably design a less offensive symbol, just to keep peace with the folks across the street from the school, who apparently didn't like it. But then the local Nazis might start an uproar. Click bait? That was my first thought.
 
Aunt Bea said:
It seems a little too serious for an elementary school logo, but I don’t find it offensive.
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I agree ....... and I'll add, OK, the bird [eagle] looks pretty much like the eagle in the Nazi symbol ...... but just how many ways can an eagle be displayed, and not look similar ? The ES inside the hexagon looks nothing like the Swastika.

Much to do about nothing ......jmo
 
I suppose the school letters ES could have been centered inside a peach. But then apple growers would complain they were being discriminated against. Followed by the rest of fruit & vegetable growers wanting their product represented.

Looking at the two side by side it is a stretch to compare, but then what else do woke people have to do?
 
Even the swatstika itself has an interesting history. It is over 10,000 years old, and has been featured in ancient designs, and cave drawings.

More recently, I can remember during WW2, we had an oriental rug with a design around the border of linked swatstikas. It was an "oriental" design. My parents probably bought it before there was such a thing as Nazi Germany. When it became the Nazi symbol, my mother got down on the floor and stitched over the swatstikas, closing them up so they looked like something else. (In those days, they didn't throw things out as easily as we do now.) I was a little kid, and I can remember her trying to explain to me what she was doing.

I found this in Wikipedia:

The earliest known swastika is from 10,000 BCE – part of "an intricate meander pattern of joined-up swastikas" found on a late paleolithic figurine of a bird, carved from mammoth ivory, found in Mezine, Ukraine. It has been suggested that this swastika may be a stylised picture of a stork in flight.[58] As the carving was found near phallic objects, this may also support the idea that the pattern was a fertility symbol.[5
 
Sunny said:
Even the swatstika itself has an interesting history. It is over 10,000 years old, and has been featured in ancient designs, and cave drawings.

More recently, I can remember during WW2, we had an oriental rug with a design around the border of linked swatstikas. It was an "oriental" design. My parents probably bought it before there was such a thing as Nazi Germany. When it became the Nazi symbol, my mother got down on the floor and stitched over the swatstikas, closing them up so they looked like something else. (In those days, they didn't throw things out as easily as we do now.) I was a little kid, and I can remember her trying to explain to me what she was doing.

I found this in Wikipedia:

The earliest known swastika is from 10,000 BCE – part of "an intricate meander pattern of joined-up swastikas" found on a late paleolithic figurine of a bird, carved from mammoth ivory, found in Mezine, Ukraine. It has been suggested that this swastika may be a stylised picture of a stork in flight.[58] As the carving was found near phallic objects, this may also support the idea that the pattern was a fertility symbol.[5
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My dad was in the 45th Infantry in WWII , their original logo was the Swastika ... But it was changed to a Thunderbird .... for obvious reason.

The Swastika was the logo of the Indian tribe that was centered in Oklahoma , which is where the unit was based. It was originally used in their honor.
 
rgp said:
My dad was in the 45th Infantry in WWII , their original logo was the Swastika ... But it was changed to a Thunderbird .... for obvious reason.

The Swastika was the logo of the Indian tribe that was centered in Oklahoma , which is where the unit was based. It was originally used in their honor.
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There was more than one.. would you possibly know which one it was?
 
There was a modest department store in the town where I grew up. The floor entrance was decorated with tiles and in the corners there were tiles in the form of a swastika. The store's owners were Jewish.
 
Chet said:
There was a modest department store in the town where I grew up. The floor entrance was decorated with tiles and in the corners there were tiles in the form of a swastika. The store's owners were Jewish.
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What years are you talking about?
 
I didn't even know that elementary schools had logos, I wonder what logo my elementary school had - something new to research!
 

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