Who makes a swastika building? i mean really...

[rbis4rbb]

I still dont see it...whats wrong with me

 

[cidknee]

if im not mistaken. Thats in the san diego harbor. Just up from coronado. My brother did a bunch of traimig there when he was in the marines..... ill ask him next time I see him. Probally just an odd coincedence, army/navy engineers dont usually look at it from over head when theyre building something. That is if it was made buy them.

 

[WillJ]

I share cierdan's sentiment a little, and because here we're only talking the building having the basic shape (from an aerial view) of the swastica, I'm okay with it.

That said, I recognize that symbols are symbols, and I'm not going to go around wearing T-Shirts with the swastica on them. Not only because that'd make social interaction a bit unpleasant, but also because I genuinely care about the great likelyhood of people getting offended. (Not that I think such T-Shirts should be illegal or anything.)

Probally just an odd coincedence, army/navy engineers dont usually look at it from over head when theyre building something.

They don't have floor plans?

 

[WillJ]

I still dont see it...whats wrong with me

Just click the link and then click the + (zoom in button) until you can't zoom in any more.

 

[Babbler]

I'm guessing it was intentional, and a reference to WW2 history, considering that if you click on the "map" button, you'll see that all the streets around it are named after WW2 battles. (Kwajalein, Bougainville, Guadalcanal, etc.)

But, really, what's the big deal?

I think your right; it was made as some kind (sick) in-joke between the engineers, perhaps? If you zoom out a bit, you see it on the United States Naval Amphibious Base. After looking at some of their websites, it seem that it either an entertainment centre or residence.

 

[Padma]

It's 4 L-shaped buildings aranged around a central point. It is a reasonably efficient use of the space, while still aesthetically pleasing on the ground. I doubt is was any deliberate "joke", or reference to Naziism. (And the reason the streets around it are named that way, is because it's a Naval base. Virtually all US Military installations name their streets in a similar manner.)

 

[Quasar1011]

Wow, that building is about 4 miles from my part-time job... I can see the Coronado Bridge out my office window, but the skyscrapers in downtown San Diego obscure the navy base...

 

[wit>trope]

I share cierdan's sentiment a little, and because here we're only talking the building having the basic shape (from an aerial view) of the swastica, I'm okay with it.

That said, I recognize that symbols are symbols, and I'm not going to go around wearing T-Shirts with the swastica on them.

At the risk of being ridiculed, I'll say that that's letting the Nazis win just like it's letting the terrorists win by becoming scared, panicked, not doing normal day to day things, etc. Politicians say that that's "letting the terrorists win" if we do that and I say that consigning this mathematical, geometric shape to the Politically Correct Index of Forbidden Shapes is "letting the Nazis win." The Catholic Church had an Index of Forbidden Books. We now have in PC land an Index of Forbidden Shapes! Am I the only one who sees how crazy and ridiculous this is?

Not only because that'd make social interaction a bit unpleasant, but also because I genuinely care about the great likelyhood of people getting offended.

To be honest, I would not wear a t shirt like that either for the same kinds of reasons, but SOMEONE has to start wearing them SOMEWHERE and when given the opportunity explain why so that EVENTUALLY people WOULDN'T get offended or it wouldn't cause social interaction to be unpleasant. So some brave souls have to start doing it. I'm not that brave. Maybe YOU are

I would be OK with wearing a shirt like that in private with my friends or something where I could explain to them how its just a beautiful geometric, math shape. But if I wear it in public, it'd have negative consequences. I'd probably get shot by some radical or beaten up!

 

[silver 2039]

The swastika is a good luck symbol. You'll see it everywhere in India. The greeks used it too.

 

[Sims2789]

What are you talking about? There's no swastika.

 

[Stylesjl]

Its a building shaped like the swatstica big whoop

 

[Johann MacLeod]

i cant see it

 

[Winner]

Swatstikas aren't a bad thing at all. They're a religious symbol in Buddhism and have been used in many different cultures over the years.

It's just in my country, that the first thing which comes to my mind when I see it, is Hitler, Holocaust, death of 40 million people, destruction of Europe etc.?

But OK, let's use this symbol, it's nice, isn't it?

 

[general_kill]

Who makes a swastika building? i mean really...

who searches google for hitler? i mean really...

 

[Pontiuth Pilate]

Anyone who wears a swastika t-shirt in public in the United States and tries to explain it as admiration for a "beautiful geometric shape" deserves a good beating. Maybe next time I go to the mall I'll wear a white cape and hood. It's a perfectly normal means of expression and we shouldn't let the KKK ruin the elegance of pointy white hoods, now should we? Boy oh boy will the Black people like THAT explanation.

Advice to racists and extremists: please, at least have the balls to admit what you are. Don't try and fool us with stupid petty excuses.

Oh, and I don't think it's "politcally correct" to have a feeling of revulsion when looking at a symbol that was stolen as the logo for millions of genocidal murders.

 

[WickedSmurf]

I still dont see it...whats wrong with me

Zooooooooom and thou shalt see



Speaking of Hitler, does anyone recognize the thing in the circle?

 

[Bozo Erectus]

who searches google for hitler? i mean really...

Godwyn of course

 

[aaglo]

Zoom in all the way and you'll see building arranged in the pattern of a swastika. who disigned this???

The swastika is a traditional symbol, thus there can be no single person named to be responsible for designing it.

BTW, is the pentagon designed by satanists?

And yes, it's a cool symbol.

 

[CoolioVonHoolio]

yea but at my school a kid drew a swastika on a piece of paper, then a teacher saw it and then a week of detentions was arranged...

 

[farting bob]

Looks like anice building design to me. And the shape was originally used by the occult IIRC, and i have nothing against the shape.
And i dont think they designed the building thinking 'Now, if anybody in the future takes an aerial photograph of this building, how can we offend them?'