Confederate Battle Flag

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Swastika symbols date back to the Indus Valley civilization, long before the emergence of Buddhism, and they are symbolic of various divine figures or tantric ideas in Hindu and Jain traditions too.  It was partly from this Indian heritage and partly from Schliemann's excavation of Troy that German Orientalists began speculating about the cultural origins of the symbol, and from there that the Nazis adopted the symbol. 

Anyway, I think over-intellectualization about such symbols and their origin leads us down paths of irrelevance, and that precisely because the histories of such symbols are not widely known,but are instead associated with their most recent socio-political uses.  I don't think either Nazi flags or Confederate battle flags should be displayed in celebration of anything, since they have in times that have directly effected ours been used to represent horrible things, things we should not idealize, no matter where we are from.