DBWI what if Nazi Germany didn't use rainbows as their symbol

when the Nazi's were looking for a symbol they originally thought about using a swastika but then decided to use a rainbow instead because of its importance in norse myth. To this day rainbows remain a tainted symbol in the west but what if they didn't use rainbows as their symbol how would that change the world? And global culture?
 
I dunno, but I will say that I'm happy the Nazi neglect of the swastika left it open for the glbqt movement to adopt decades later. The idea of a loving sun overarching the whole world is just the perfect symbol of inclusiveness.
 
The rainbow is just one more cool thing they ruined. Along with the Bellamy salute, toothbrush mustache, and the name Adolf.

It's a naturally occurring phenomenon so that limits the association with evil to some degree, but if they'd chosen the swastika it would be even more tainted in the West due to not having other contexts. The rainbow would have been a great symbol for the civil rights movement (many colors together in harmony) if Hitler hadn't used it.
 
there wouldn't have been this excessive controversy over the character "rainbow dash" in MLP, she was just supposed to represent a happy upbeat character with meteological powers, but the several trials made Hasbro go bankrupt ... people really got paranoid about that ... the other thing is that now, even seventy years after the end of ww2, people still have this uneasy feeling when sun comes after rain and a rainbow forms itself ...


(also there wouldn't be this dark humor meme of taking a picture of a celebrity or some famous place with a rainbow in the background)
 
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One other thing, we wouldn't have that interesting subgenre of political art, wherein far-right parties try to skirt around the taboos against rainbow logos, via the use of highly suggestive imagery. Like the way that Greek fascist party uses a full circle, with only blue, yellow, and green represented, so they can say "See? It's not actually a rainbow!!"

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Along with the Bellamy salute
Unlike the rainbow, I feel the Bellamy salute is beyond saving. How can you not look at a bunch of people standing ramrod straight, one arm stretched out in that uniform salute and not think "evil empire"? Some dictatorship was going to use it eventually.

Really makes the old pictures of children giving the Pledge of Allegiance with that salute even creepier than it already is (although that is very much how one should feel on seeing such scenes of indoctrination). Makes me wonder if the previous use of the salute contributed to the recent phasing out of reciting the Pledge in schools...
 
Man, if the Nazis used the swastika, Hindus and Jains would have to stop using theirs. I would truly have to feel sorry for them–abandoning centuries-old symbols over one genocidal maniac.
 
Well, you would not have the memes in which Finnish Air Force planes are included with men in quite skimpy uniforms - or the crazy US demonstrators who demanded FAF planes visiting Red Flag to abandon their swastika insignias due to connection with the HLBT movement.

Then again, Tom of Finland's drawings of Finnish tank men in leather uniforms with swastika insignia StuG's in background would not have become such a gay cultural icons...
 
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But back then, Nazis using Swastikas meant that any vandals who wanted to look edgy would need only one color on their can of spray paint if they wanted to paint a hate symbol.

Unlike now, where they need Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, and Violet, at the minimum.
 
But back then, Nazis using Swastikas meant that any vandals who wanted to look edgy would need only one color on their can of spray paint if they wanted to paint a hate symbol.

Unlike now, where they need Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, and Violet, at the minimum.
What makes you think they'd use a swastika? Why wouldn't they use a Norse rune?
 
We probably wouldn't have to be so careful with how exactly you mix colours. I remember getting into severe trouble in school for drawing a rainbow, without myself knowing that it was a symbol of white nationalism. Even now, it can be considered quite controversial to add in rainbows in cartoons, for example, as was mentioned earlier with Rainbow Dash.
 
What makes you think they'd use a swastika? Why wouldn't they use a Norse rune?
Yeah, that was what I was wondering too. I really don't think they would have used a symbol that originated from a race that was considered Untermensch.
 
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The special ire brought down by the 42nd Infantry Division, renamed 'The Stormclouds', was especially memorable.
 
This thread is terrible...I'm laughing so hard, I've got tears in my eyes, and I can't see a damn thing. All I can do is go back to the beginning and punch the like button on every post...
 
We probably wouldn't have to be so careful with how exactly you mix colours. I remember getting into severe trouble in school for drawing a rainbow, without myself knowing that it was a symbol of white nationalism. Even now, it can be considered quite controversial to add in rainbows in cartoons, for example, as was mentioned earlier with Rainbow Dash.

Hence the phrase, "off white" and various combinations with, 'alt right'
 
when the Nazi's were looking for a symbol they originally thought about using a swastika but then decided to use a rainbow instead because of its importance in norse myth. To this day rainbows remain a tainted symbol in the west but what if they didn't use rainbows as their symbol how would that change the world? And global culture?
For one thing, people wouldn’t try to argue that P. Vasquez of “Wow. Double Rainbow — what does it mean?” fame is secretly a crypro-fascist that had embedded hidden Nazi codes/double-meaning dog whistle into his meme-vid and so no one would end up sending death-threats to the poor guy. As hard as it might sound, I guess the internet will just have to find something else to feel indignant and outraged over. :rolleyes:
 
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