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cthulu2016

(10,960 posts) Sat Mar 10, 2012, 12:38 AM Mar 2012

Cross-hairs

Noting the American RW fondness for cross-hairs...

Many (most?) European fringe ultra-nationalist and neo-nazi outfits have traded in the swastika for the Celtic Cross, as in:

or...

or a bunch of others here: http://flagspot.net/flags/fr%7Dultrr.html

Correlation is not causation. Just thought I'd make a note of it.

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Cross-hairs (Original Post) cthulu2016 Mar 2012 OP

Damn - first they destroy one good symbol hedgehog Mar 2012 #1

hedgehog

(36,286 posts)

1. Damn - first they destroy one good symbol

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Sat Mar 10, 2012, 12:39 AM

Mar 2012

(the swastika was traditionally a sun symbol) and now they're after another?

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