Jdsizzleslice wrote:Dukasaur wrote:Jdsizzleslice wrote:jimboston wrote:Furthermore, I didn’t comment in anyway on his Native American heritage. I don’t care, and whether or not the logo was designed by an “actual Native American” or not is IMHO meaningless to the logo’s value today. Finally, he may have Native American blood, whatever that means... but he also must’ve had significant German or Jewish German blood. It’s also kinda funny that a guy with some German.Jewish roots winds up running an Native American Tribe.
If you don’t think that’s funny you need to thicken your skin a bit. That’s something out of a Mel Brooks movie.
Um. Why does it not matter whether or not a claimed racist logo was designed by a person of the same heritage of the logo and didn't find it racist?
For the same reason that it doesn't matter that the swastika was first used by some pre-Hindu animist priests 3000 years ago. It doesn't matter what a symbol meant in the past; what matters is what it means to people today. You've been on Conquer Club long enough to have seen a few of the dickheads who try to fly a swastika in their avatar, and then justify it by saying "I have a right to use a swastika because I'm Hindu." To which we always reply, "Bullshit!" because it is. To a person living in the 21st Century, a swastika means "Nazi". The fact that it was a Hindu symbol for "good health" before the Nazis stole it is historically interesting, but completely irrelevant. No actual Hindu uses it to identify himself in the 21st Century because he knows what it has come to mean. The meaning of words changes over time, and so does the meaning of symbols.
By that same logic, the Confederate flag should be socially acceptable to fly because today it means "The South" in general. Forget the meaning it had in the past of advocating for slavery, today it means the Southern United States!
Except that isn’t it’s whole meaning.
It may mean that to some, but in other context it means different things.
