@fishline79 Fashions, come, go, and come again. The swastika for example was a religious symbol throughout neolithic Eurasia, and had nothing to do with fascism, until it did. I agree that the outsize harms of Nazi Germany mean that the swastika will probably never disassociate itself from Naziism. Any group for the next thousand years would be dumb to pick that symbol to represent themselves unless it's a deliberate embrace of some form of fascistic ideology.

On the other hand ... how far should that go? Brown shirts? Hair styles? By that logic, the Boy Scouts should have long ago been disbanded, as they bear too much resemblance to the Hitler Youth.

In my youth, facial hair was considered by most of the "establishment" as subversive. Now it isn't. So then, is my facial hair that I have had for the past decade or so an indication that I'm a subversive, or merely commonplace and unremarkable?

@mordant I totally agree with the Boy Scouts statement. It is a para-military training org. We have Scouts here in Spain but they combine boys and girls and are totally different from U.S. As for facial hair, the same applies to long hair if you are looking for a job. You can apply for work with a shaved head and tatoos (which, in my day were sported by prisoners and sailors) and have no problem, but long natural hair was always a detrement to getting a job in the U.S. The only thing the "establishment cares about is if you wear a tie! BTW, the swastica most often used in primitive societies (Native Americans, etc.) was usually with the angles going to the left, but you are right about that, but I will never change my mind that hair styles are the most revealing indicators of one's political and social attitudes.