I've heard of the term. However, I am much more interested in the truth than the twist created by the majority. The majority of people think that the Christmas tree is a Christian symbol, but it isn't. The majority of people think that President Kennedy called himself a jelly doughnut in front of a bunch of Germans, even though he didn't. The majority of people think that the Pilgrims had the first Thanksgiving, even though they didn't.
That opinion doesn't even make sense because the last few symbols I mentioned (the swastika and the white Capirote hat) were symbols that were stolen and used in other places, including here, but your opinion on their meaning didn't change. How can you understand that meanings can change nation to nation but INSIST that the Capirote hat is racist and nothing else?
I know the point you are trying to make. Your point is just ignorant, close-minded, and just short of offensive.
Again, the day that an outside group can definitively decide for another group what a symbol means to them and others is probably the day when I shoot myself. You can make an opinion, but outsiders don't get to change the definition. It doesn't (and shouldn't) work that way. So a bunch of Satanists come along and because of them, the symbol for Pagans changes? A bunch of Nazis come along and because of them, the meaning behind the swastika, a cross cultural symbol that's been around for centuries, changes? A flag that meant nothing more than pride in coming from an area gets its meaning changed because of the ignorant beliefs of a bunch of idiotic racists?
And refusing to look past all of the hate and the ignorance that corrupted those symbols in order to find and embrace the truth behind them is living in the "real world"? So am I and others living in a fantasy world because we cracked open some history books and decided not to live in ignorance like everybody else?
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