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Savarnas on the Internet: reclaim the Hindu swastika from Nazis
The whole “swastikas were a religious Hindu symbol before they represented genocide and ethnoracial cleansing” is an almost universal myth in Hindu diaspora families. We grow up hearing it and repeating it. Only in recently have I learned how to critically examine that narrative.
It is a dangerous narrative and it has very successfully obscured the common majoritarian projects of both white and Hindu supremacy.
My immediate family does not practice Hinduism, and I have more explicitly rejected Hinduism as I do not believe there is Vedic Hinduism without Brahmincal patriarchy. Still, my family is casted and that manifests in our social and political experience in direct & indirect ways.
We know that the Nazi regime in Germany modeled and executed its racial purification project on global examples: not only the US, but also the Hindu caste hierarchy in India—which asserts that people are born into their social position and cannot transcend, even generationally.
So, if we think differently about the swastika, as it is a symbol used by ethnoracial & ethnreligious political parties who [not so] coincidentally claim Aryan racial lineages there is no “reclaiming of the Hindu swastika.” Only shared fascist & majoritarian aspirations.
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