Yes That's A Swastika

 

That's also a Hawker Hurricane sold to Finland by Great Britain while engaged in a war with National Socialist Germany.

Finland's roundel was a blue swastika in a white field since their first plane took to the skies.

In 1918.

At the end of WW2 they changed the roundel on the planes to concentric blue and white rings, but the Air Force badges and crests kept the swastika until very recently.

They almost literally said that they were sick of explaining that it predated the National Socialist Worker's Party of Germany and never had an association with Fascism in Finland.

It's an outstanding example of one side getting to define the meaning of a symbol without bothering to ask the user of that symbol what they mean by it.

The Confederate Battle Flag is such a symbol too.

We've made the decision that what matters is how something is taken rather than how it was meant.

That simply won't work for very long, because if you cannot mean what you say, you cannot say what you mean.

But that's the intent.

It's to have a means to punish the "wrong" people regardless of what they meant to do or say by applying meaning to what they say or do after the fact as if it was their intention from the beginning.

And that brings us to Ye and his current ban on Twitter.

Is combining the Star of David and a swastika an incite to violence?  Mr Musk appears to think so.

Is it just inflammatory speech?  I tend to think so.

I've found, in the long run, letting racists spew their idiocy wins more opposition to them than suppressing them.  They're idiots, so we've nothing to fear from their idiotic words.

I'd have let Ye keep digging his hole and self-marginalizing until he disappeared from public view forever.