Knitting

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).