Loaded terms in free software
Loaded terms in free software
Posted Jun 22, 2020 14:00 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304)In reply to: Loaded terms in free software by rahulsundaram
Parent article: Loaded terms in free software
In the Western world it was a good-luck symbol too -- but *there* it wasn't a very important one, so its use declined almost to irrelevance long before the Nazis (a bunch of people who specialized in picking up obsolete stuff and using it to glorify horrible things) picked it up.
(A bunch of examples, some more impressive than others: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-26369329).