White supremacist or not...you decide.

[BrasilNuts]

The only way this could have been worse is if he had gotten it on his forehead. He needs to come to grips and admit his epic mistake.

What is that other tattoo on his chest? Is that TN?

Edit: I am not 100% sure, but I think the swastika finds it's roots in Hindu India.

Edited September 19, 2009 by BrasilNuts

[Guest Caveman]

Yes BrasilNuts, that is a tattooed outline of the state of Tennessee with a little red heart where Knoxville is, and I am not kidding.

[Paletiger13]

No, the symbol was originally and first used by Native American Indians. Somehow Tibetan monks also used the symbol. The symbol is suppossed to stand for the Sun

[hkusp40cal]

From wiki :

The symbol has an ancient history, appearing on artifacts from Indo-European cultures such as the Indo-Aryans, Persians, Hittites, Slavs, Celts and Greeks, among others. The earliest consistent use of swastika motifs in the archaeological record date to the Neolithic. The symbol was found on a number of shards in the Khuzestan province of Iran and as part of the "Vinca script" of Neolithic Europe of the 5th millennium BC. In the Early Bronze Age, it appears on pottery found in Sintashta, Russia. Early Indian swastika symbols were found at Lothal and Harappa, on Indus Valley seals.[11]

Swastika-like symbols also appear in Bronze and Iron Age designs of the northern Caucasus (Koban culture), and Azerbaijan, as well as of Scythians and Sarmatians [12]. In all these cultures, the swastika symbol does not appear to occupy any marked position or significance, but appears as just one form of a series of similar symbols of varying complexity.

Swastikas have also been found on pottery in archaeological digs in the area of ancient Kush. Swastikas were also found on pottery at the Jebel Barkal temples.[13]

[Guest 70below]

Basically it was a really easy symbol to draw, so everyone has used it at one time or another.

[BryanP]

Actually, in the beginning it was a Christian symbol, the broken cross, it didn't get associated negatively until it was adopted by Hitler.

I've most often seen it in older Buddhist symbols.

[bteague2]

Before the Nazi's it was mainly know for Hindu and far east religions, but as it's been said many have used it:

[poak]

The last one on that chart is a little ironic, eh?

Also, that chart looks like it was salvaged from the Dharma Initiative.

[Guest SUNTZU]

The Celt one made me start humming "Walk Like an Egyptian."

[Guest Muttling]

Thanks bteague!!!!

I always knew it was a broken cross and had been used pre-Hitler but had never seen such detail or the multitude of connections.

Very interesting and something to do some more reading on.

[TNTitan]

uh, no. It was used by many pagan cultures in for various religious and design purposes but never by Christians as a Christian symbol.

In Christianity, the swastika is sometimes used as a hooked version of the Christian Cross, the symbol of Christ's victory over death. Some Christian churches built in the Romanesque and Gothic eras are decorated with swastikas, carrying over earlier Roman designs. Swastikas are prominently displayed in a mosaic in the St. Sophia church of Kiev, Ukraine dating from the 12th century. They also appear as a repeating ornamental motif on a tomb in the Basilica of St. Ambrose in Milan. A proposed direct link between it and a swastika floor mosaic in the Cathedral of Our Lady of Amiens, which was built on top of a pagan site at Amiens, France in the 1200s, is considered unlikely. The stole worn by a priest in the 1445 painting of the Seven Sacraments by Roger van der Weyden presents the swastika form simply as one way of depicting the cross. Swastikas also appear on the vestments on the effigy of Bishop William Edington (d.1366) in Winchester Cathedral. -WIKI

[Guest canynracer]

He could get the "Slash" outlined in white or red to attempt to bring it out more...but overall it wasnt a very well thought out design for his purpose.

[raydog1]

Oh man, that's too bad. Heart was in the right place, but the slash was not. It looks to big and thick for laser removal, at least not without a lot of pain & $$$ involved. Maybe the American Jewish League can make a donation if he asks real nice?

[Guest mustangdave]

I can see him.."explaining" his TAT after every ass whoopin' ....naw dude....its a NO Nat-zeez symbol...can't you tell?

[strickj]

I'm surprised the tattoo artist didn't point out the piss poor design to him.

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Well...if you look closely at the tat,you'll see what kinda of "artist" it really was.

Look at the leg(or whatever its called) on the bottom especially

[poak]

Well...if you look closely at the tat,you'll see what kinda of "artist" it really was.

Look at the leg(or whatever its called) on the bottom especially

Good call, strick! Didn't even look that close

[Guest mustangdave]

this guy get my vote for DORK of the Month

[Guest 70below]

Maybe he can just laser out the center and have the Obama "Change" logo tattooed within.

[Seaslug]

Can't believe I've missed this thread until now. That pic made my whole day...lol. Who the hell is this, btw? Anyone we know?

[Guest Caveman]

I don't believe you have met him.