Fedora 20 Swastika

[Sam Kottler]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chris Adams" <linux at cmadams.net>
> To: test at lists.fedoraproject.org
> Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2013 1:49:14 PM
> Subject: Re: Fedora 20 Swastika
> 
> Once upon a time, Michał Piotrowski <mkkp4x4 at gmail.com> said:
> > I think that for a sake of everyone who can see a swastika on this
> > wallpaper, just change it to something else.
> 
> I disagree.  There will _always_ be somebody that can find fault with
> anything (especially something as subjective as artwork); you can't just
> throw away somebody's work because somebody sees something they don't
> like.

I've been trying to remain quiet on this thread because it's reached a point of being asinine, but I have to take issue with your language. "somebody sees something they don't like" is a reference to a swastika; someone raised a concern and you were dismissive both toward the concern and toward the symbol. The swastika symbolizes a period when *millions* of people who died and tens of millions of people who had their lives completely uprooted because of the events of that era. It's not "something [a person] didn't like" so don't pin it on a single person raising an issue; that's not neither accurate nor appropriate.

I am of Jewish descent, and had family members who were in camps during the Holocaust. I don't see a swastika in the wallpaper and don't really care as to whether the it stays or goes, but I just felt the need to point out the dismissive tone when someone had clearly raised an issue.

> 
> I just see a slanted "H", which I presume to be the intent.
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