It’s not just Swastika Lake — the U.S. is full of sites named for swastikas
Both Wyoming's Swastika Lake and Oregon's Mount Swastika have been renamed in 2023. That's just the tip of the iceberg
Both Wyoming's Swastika Lake and Oregon's Mount Swastika have been renamed in 2023. That's just the tip of the iceberg
The origins of the name are unknown but date back to at least 1922
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Update: A man has been arrested and charged for spray-painting swastikas on Union Station, Washington, D.C., police said Saturday. They arrested Geraldo Panda, 34, of no fixed address, and are investigating the crime “as potentially being motivated in whole or in part by hate or bias.” More than 50 swastikas were drawn Friday on the…
Hate speech is notoriously hard to police online, and nearly every major social media platform has been criticized in the recent past for allowing disinformation and hate to proliferate on their platforms. Wikipedia, meanwhile, got a hacker’s swastikas off of its site in under five minutes. On Monday morning, a Wikipedia template was vandalized, impacting…
If you’ve ever wondered how you might look fully covered in tattoos, there are Instagram filters that can help you imagine it by projecting images onto your arms and chest. Unfortunately, you don’t get to choose the tats— and one popular filter, called “Old School,” places a Native American feather headdress adorned with a swastika…
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