(September 14, 2011 at 4:03 pm)bozo Wrote: It has a history in racist terms. I'm not surprised you didn't immediately grasp the connection, because its popularity as a " harmless toy " has wained over the decades since racism was more in-your-face than it is today.
So? The Swastika was appropriated by the Nazis and now holds (even more) meaning as a "Racist symbol".
And yet both are still used, like the sauvastika in "Blade of the Immortal"
Guilt by association is such a tired trope, bozo.
Though it does stand to state that for Blade of the Immortal, on each English tankoubon, there is a brief cover-your-ass explanation of the differences between swastika and sauvastika (mirror versions of each other).
Slave to the Patriarchy no more