Patriots owner Robert Kraft among backers of successful push to rename Wyoming’s Swastika Lake
The origins of the name are unknown but date back to at least 1922
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Fast Forward Update: Man arrested for spray-painting swastikas on D.C.’s Union Station
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…
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Culture Wikipedia fixed its swastika problem fast. Why can’t anyone else?
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…
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Culture Users reported an Instagram filter for featuring a swastika. It’s still up.
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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Fast Forward Veterans Affairs removes headstones with swastikas at Texas cemetery
(JTA) — The Department of Veterans Affairs removed two gravestones bearing swastikas from a military cemetery in Texas. With little fanfare, the VA removed the headstones on Monday morning from Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery in San Antonio. The Military Religious Freedom Foundation, a group that advocates for troops and veterans who report discrimination in…
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