Now the heatwave needs to end so I can wear it.

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    1 year ago

    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!

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      1 year ago

      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).

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        1 year ago

        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!