Now the heatwave needs to end so I can wear it.
this post was submitted on 05 Oct 2023
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I know this was not your intention and I really appreciate handiwork, but please DO NOT wear this in Germany. The eagle combined with the T-shaped symbols and the brown-white colours look a bit like something Thor Steinar would make.
Other than that it looks incredibly professional! I hope it keeps you warm, 'cause it looks most comfortable!
It’s literally a free Bernat Yarnspirations Pattern, that I found to replace an old Canadian White Buffalo Cowichan-inspired out of print pattern. My dad had a tattoo of a Thunderbird on his chest and he died so that’s why I made it. I have no issues explaining that to people, and no intentions to travel to Germany any time soon.
Nazis co-opted a lot of symbols from a lot of places (Buddhists still use swastikas and you can even see them marking their temples on Google maps), but I think as long as the intention is not that people need to also breathe about it.
Fascists in general try to co-opt the innocent and mundane (aka the Canadian flag and the convoy protests). I personally intentionally hung a Canadian flag from my house after their nonsense because the best possible defence is for reasonable people to keep using the same symbol by its intended meaning. I put a pride flag sticker underneath it to make my point about what kind of house mine is.
We do have to choose to a certain extent whether we as rational people are willing to let that happen, so long as people aren’t outright wearing WW2 era paraphernalia (which I understand is illegal in Germany anyway).
Sorry, you are perfectly correct. It was more of a random thought of mine because, once again, Nazis fuck up all kinds of symbols and designs. Please do not let that restrict you in your choices of travel!
Why the fuck do nazis have to ruin everything
It’s probably in their blood. (Sorry for the bad joke)
It’s not an eagle though. It’s a thunderbird, a Native American symbol.