Comments on: Techcrunch freaks out at Swastika!

By: Destination Infinity

Destination Infinity — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 05:55:33 +0000

Even if the Swastika was a Nazi Symbol, Google has no business of blocking it even on that count! Remember how many Mein Kampf books are there in the market for sale…. Swastika is a beautiful arrangement of lines and if Hitler has used it as his symbol, it is his problem – Not ours! At some point of our lives we cant refuse our admiration for the leader who fought against the whole world, single handedly and almost won (In the words of Winston Churchil).

Destination Infinity.

By: Suman

Suman — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 11:42:27 +0000

hahaha, leave it to mike to be a primadonna. Me thinks om is one too. Who am i kidding every geek with any kinda blog traffic fancies himself a diva, though i guess goes with the territory of pretentious speculation and filler fluff pieces.

By: RC Sharma

RC Sharma — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 11:17:15 +0000

This Arrington thinks that Hindus should be ashamed of revering their swastika.

By: Rishabh

Rishabh — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 09:14:29 +0000

@Rahul: Haha! True its about perception here then isn’t it. Most Americans wouldnt know about the Swastika had it not been for the Nazi’s and the associated violence, where as Indians who have known it from before, wouldnt associate it with anything violent at all.

But that being said, Arrington’s response could have been better. Bahut attitude hai bhai

@shefali: thanks for the correction.

By: Rahul

Rahul — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 07:07:44 +0000

Went through comments, isn’t it so typical of us that we get excited whenever they talk about something related to us..We need not explain things to them.. to hell with them and their idiosyncrasies..

By: Shefaly

Shefaly — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 06:21:35 +0000

Rahul, I do not know what typical Indian behaviour would be in this situation. In fact if you see TechCrunch comments, you will see far more fiery comments than I made.

If you lived in Europe like I do, you too would be fed up with the revisionist view of Swastika. I am not religious and I do not consider the Swastika religious but it is a part of my complex, multi-layered identity and I refuse to have this nonsensical view of things take it away from me.

By: Rahul

Rahul — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 06:18:51 +0000

BTW, Shefaly’s was typical Indian behaviour..

By: Rahul

Rahul — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 06:15:35 +0000

I found it weird too.. Arrington has a history of reacting the way he reacted..typical american behaviour..

By: Shefaly

Shefaly — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 06:04:28 +0000

Thanks for the hat-tip and the weird acknowledgment

I am not sorry for being ‘blocked’ from receiving TechCrunch tweets. I hardly read it before. It was easier to follow on Twitter so hardly any loss for me.

I think it is more like ‘authoritarian’ views than ‘authoritative’. The post now has 78 comments increasingly rude and aggressive.

I wonder if Google can afford to piss off so many Indians, Chinese and Japanese by ‘censoring’ a sacred symbol..