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By Beth Harpaz February 2, 2024

A toy fidget spinner that can be snapped together in various configurations is being advertised on Amazon in the shape of what looks like a swastika. 

“Imagine sending a kid to school with these swastika fidget spinner valentines off Amazon,” wrote one observer on the social media platform X. “Be mein, I guess.”

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The toy is being marketed as a Valentine’s Day gift for elementary school classrooms. It’s packaged as a set with 28 Valentine’s cards and 28 kits of components in which four arms can be shaped and attached in various ways to a center disk.

But the shape shown prominently on the Amazon product listing looks like a swastika. 

The product has five customer reviews. Four of them are five-star ratings. The lone one-star rating, titled “Ugh” and posted Jan. 28, presumably by a teacher, says: “I bought these to give to my class. Once I started to get them ready, I realized they can be made into a swastika 🤦🏻‍♀️ I realize there are a million different configurations, but I feel like I can’t give these out now.”

Oddly, some of the candy-colored components for building the spinners look like little dreidels.

It wasn’t immediately clear how to reach the company selling the product, Loscola, for a comment. The company is located in China, according to its listing with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

A story about the product appeared Thursday in The Daily Caller, a politically conservative news website founded by former Fox News host Tucker Carlson and political adviser Neil Patel.

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