Popular Post VictorInBKK Posted June 26, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted June 26, 2020 I was lost in my thoughts, checking today's news while riding a random bus on my way to downtown Bangkok this evening when suddenly I realized the presence of this small truck, which understandably caught my attention. I apologize for the bad picture quality since the road was a bit bumpy and I tried to zoom in with a mobile camera. I understand that some people in Thailand lack the education needed to realize the meaning of such symbology. That said, I was not the only person capturing the event. It's 2020 and Thai authorities must have seen this individual cruising the streets of Bangkok before. I post it here so members of this forum can illustrate what is the reason for this and more importantly, why it's tolerated in the Kingdom. Please note that this was not a parade but a traffic jam. Fortunately, no passengers were seen at the back of the vehicle. 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Orton Rd Posted June 26, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted June 26, 2020 well the west tolerates the black lives matter fist, and you see idiots walking around still in Che shirts, he was a self confessed rapist and executioner. This sort of thing in the pic is just down to ignorance and the paucity of the Thai education system. 13 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Pilotman Posted June 26, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted June 26, 2020 (edited) A great many Thais have no idea about history, their own or anyone elses, or that there was a WW2, or that their own country just caved in and collaborated with the Japanese. To them, this will be just an unusual symbol that they came across, with no significance attached to it in their minds. Ignorance is bliss, never a truer phrase. Edited June 26, 2020 by Pilotman 16 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post twocatsmac Posted June 26, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted June 26, 2020 I’m surprised the Russian hammer and sickle and the Japanese flags also survived the pc scrutinisers over the years. They killed and tortured many more people, even their own but no, nazism isn’t really alive and kicking in Thailand. 11 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post CorpusChristie Posted June 26, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted June 26, 2020 Did he have Nazi beliefs or did he just like the sign ? Quite probably the latter . But even so, one person having a swastika painted on the back of their truck doesnt show "Nazism is well and alive in Thailand" , quite the opposite actually , it would show Thais have no idea about what the swastika stands for 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post impulse Posted June 26, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted June 26, 2020 The OP is confusing Nazism with poor taste. 9 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post spiekerjozef Posted June 26, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted June 26, 2020 The swastika or sauwastika is a geometrical figure and an ancient religious icon in the cultures of Eurasia. It is used as a symbol of divinity and spirituality in Indian religions, including Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism 12 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post spiekerjozef Posted June 26, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted June 26, 2020 A certain mr. A. Dolf made it into something else but origin it is a religious symbol. 4 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post SAINT THOMAS Posted June 26, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted June 26, 2020 (edited) Its a Religious symbol different meaning when inverted or clockwise/counter clockwise. Edited June 26, 2020 by SAINT THOMAS 14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post PatchinExPat Posted June 26, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted June 26, 2020 2 minutes ago, spiekerjozef said: The swastika or sauwastika is a geometrical figure and an ancient religious icon in the cultures of Eurasia. It is used as a symbol of divinity and spirituality in Indian religions, including Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism This is correct I would not paint it on my vehicle but it was present in Asia 100s of years before Nazism 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post impulse Posted June 26, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted June 26, 2020 3 minutes ago, spiekerjozef said: The swastika or sauwastika is a geometrical figure and an ancient religious icon in the cultures of Eurasia. It is used as a symbol of divinity and spirituality in Indian religions, including Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism Hammers and sickles are innocuous items, too. Unless you put them in specific colors and in a specific configuration. Then they mean something different. Just like swastikas. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VocalNeal Posted June 26, 2020 Share Posted June 26, 2020 17 minutes ago, twocatsmac said: I’m surprised the Russian hammer and sickle and the Japanese flags also survived the pc scrutinisers over the years. This one is an affront in most countries in Asia. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CorpusChristie Posted June 26, 2020 Share Posted June 26, 2020 17 minutes ago, spiekerjozef said: The swastika or sauwastika is a geometrical figure and an ancient religious icon in the cultures of Eurasia. It is used as a symbol of divinity and spirituality in Indian religions, including Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism The Nazi swastika is unique and different to any other swastika 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Psimbo Posted June 26, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted June 26, 2020 (edited) Oh dear- another bad Nazi Thailand thread. The Thai's don't have the same concerns about this that (some) Westerners do. Nothing to see her folks- get over it. Poor taste- yes. Teeth gnashing frothing rage- nope. Edited June 26, 2020 by Psimbo 5 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ukrules Posted June 26, 2020 Share Posted June 26, 2020 56 minutes ago, VictorInBKK said: It's 2020 and Thai authorities must have seen this individual cruising the streets of Bangkok before. I'm sure they have, what would you expect them to do? This is not Germany where such signs would be illegal, far from it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riclag Posted June 26, 2020 Share Posted June 26, 2020 Many Thais, "not all", and especially kids don't know what it represents! https://www.timesofisrael.com/thai-pop-idol-tearfully-apologizes-for-nazi-swastika-t-shirt/ When this young lady found out ,she almost went suicidal imop Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
talahtnut Posted June 26, 2020 Share Posted June 26, 2020 Churchill had the answer, with another well known sign Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Yinn Posted June 26, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted June 26, 2020 52 minutes ago, VictorInBKK said: I post it here so members of this forum can illustrate what is the reason for this and more importantly, why it's tolerated in the Kingdom. 40 minutes ago, Pilotman said: A great many Thais have no idea about history, their own or anyone elses, or that there was a WW2. How many Thai war hero you know about? Name? No idea right? Nazi were farang, fighting other farang. Stupid OP. Thailand not have skin head love Hitler same England/Europe. How neo-Nazi group National Action targeted young people https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-48279225 Hitler love white people hate another race. Want to kill us. Why would Thai like him? Hitler hate Thai people. interesting that last month a lot of news about racism in western countrys. No some members, same this one, now try to say Thais is racism, in a big C etc. Hmmmm i not care the race, only care the person is good or bad. Every race have good and bad. For me, different race interesting thing, can learn. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riclag Posted June 26, 2020 Share Posted June 26, 2020 Not you OP but the people who use this and the nazi propaganda to slander people are imop worse than the devil 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pilotman Posted June 26, 2020 Share Posted June 26, 2020 2 minutes ago, Yinn said: How many Thai war hero you know about? Name? No idea right? Nazi were farang, fighting other farang. Stupid OP. Thailand not have skin head love Hitler same England/Europe. How neo-Nazi group National Action targeted young people https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-48279225 Hitler love white people hate another race. Want to kill us. Why would Thai like him? Hitler hate Thai people. interesting that last month a lot of news about racism in western countrys. No some members, same this one, now try to say Thais is racism, in a big C etc. Hmmmm i not care the race, only care the person is good or bad. Every race have good and bad. For me, different race interesting thing, can learn. well you seem to have proved my point, that Thais know nothing of history. If you honestly think that WW2 was just farangs against farangs then that is breathtaking ignorance of the truth. I doubt that Hitler even knew where Siam was, but as he hated all of humanity, including the Germans, I guess that by default that included all Asians. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Youlike Posted June 26, 2020 Share Posted June 26, 2020 37 minutes ago, CorpusChristie said: t would show Thais have no idea about what the swastika stands for Well maybe they do! Before it became the logo of the nazi's it had another meaning in the old religions...you can google it if you want the full explanation of the swastika. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChouDoufu Posted June 26, 2020 Share Posted June 26, 2020 i thought many of y'all left your nanny states behind for more freedom. surprising that many would want the thai government to enforce censorship. you remind me of californians who've turned their state into a madhouse, then escaping to texas or colorado, and then demanding they do things like back in 'californy. the united states, despite the recent pc madness, still guarantees free speech. there is a nazi party and a communist party. it's legal to display swastikas, hand out nazi party brochures, and even march in public in full ss uniform. i think the national socialists and the communists each occasionally run candidates in presidential elections. it's not free speech if we only protect the speech we ourselves agree with. can't count the number of times on college campus i've heard "i believe in free speech, but you shouldn't be allowed to say _________." educate 'em. if you ban it, you just make it sexy. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
impulse Posted June 26, 2020 Share Posted June 26, 2020 15 minutes ago, Youlike said: Well maybe they do! Before it became the logo of the nazi's it had another meaning in the old religions...you can google it if you want the full explanation of the swastika. If it's a black swastika inside a white circle on a field of red, it only means one thing. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spiekerjozef Posted June 26, 2020 Share Posted June 26, 2020 4 minutes ago, impulse said: If it's a black swastika inside a white circle on a field of red, it only means one thing. He doesn't like dirty farang? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Aussie Chiang Mai Posted June 26, 2020 Share Posted June 26, 2020 1 hour ago, Pilotman said: A great many Thais have no idea about history, their own or anyone elses, or that there was a WW2, or that their own country just caved in and collaborated with the Japanese. To them, this will be just an unusual symbol that they came across, with no significance attached to it in their minds. Ignorance is bliss, never a truer phrase. 100% correct. Would not know who Hitler was or represented. 100% no history knowledge outside Thailand and not much about their own history either. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
worgeordie Posted June 26, 2020 Share Posted June 26, 2020 It's only Hitler and Goebbels doing a moving job. regards worgeordie 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardColeman Posted June 26, 2020 Share Posted June 26, 2020 You know that the next big thing in the UK will be the muslims trying to ban the English cross due to reminding them of the crusades 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yinn Posted June 26, 2020 Share Posted June 26, 2020 35 minutes ago, Pilotman said: well you seem to have proved my point, that Thais know nothing of history. If you honestly think that WW2 was just farangs against farangs then that is breathtaking ignorance of the truth. The OP about Nazi. Nazi Germany invaded Austria and Czechoslovakia and parts of France (Rhineland) just before WW2. Then they invaded Poland, Belgium, Holland, Poland, Luxembourg, France, Denmark, Norway, the USSR, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Greece 35 minutes ago, Pilotman said: I doubt that Hitler even knew where Siam was, but as he hated all of humanity, including the Germans, I guess that by default that included all Asians. That is breathtaking ignorance of the truth. Thai King and Hitler 1934. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yinn Posted June 26, 2020 Share Posted June 26, 2020 15 minutes ago, Bruce Aussie Chiang Mai said: and not much about their own history either. BS 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yinn Posted June 26, 2020 Share Posted June 26, 2020 55 minutes ago, Pilotman said: well you seem to have proved my point, that Thais know nothing of history. If you honestly think that WW2 was just farangs against farangs then that is breathtaking ignorance of the truth. No. were also 2,000 Thai civilian deaths due to frequent bombings by the Allied Forces (U.K. and USA) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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