My girlfriend is Buddhist I have friends who are Hindu and non of them wear swastikas or have swastika tattoos. What I am saying is that when the average person in this country see a swastika and it is a sign of HATE. And when someone is in a group that is hated by that sign a light will go off their head and say "HEY this guy/gal could possible hate me so I should probably go the opposite direction". Thats what I am saying in the original post, I'm not trying to say that one kind of prejudice is right and another is wrong. But like it or not there are still hate groups out there, and if someone was into R/C and was into a hate group what do you think they would most likely want to model????? I know the history of the swastika and unfortunately the Nazi's have ruined it, like it or not. And the swastika we are referring to in this forum is the one of the NAZI's, so stop trying to romanticize it, the swastika on a ME-109 or that P-47 on this thread have nothing to do with Buddhism. And I realize that not everyone who wears a cross is religious, but my point is all symbols are not ALL good, Would you welcome a devil worshiper in your house, do you respect people who choose to molest little kids???? Some groups don't deserve respect and this is what I am talking about.

And no I don't have narrow views. I don't care if there was more hate in WWII in this country for the Japanese than the Germans. The Germans were trying to annihilate an entire race of people and take over the entire world because they felt they were superior. The Japanese self moto was taking back asia for the asians, granted the tactics were horrible with lots of unnecessary death, but that to me is the lesser evil. This country still had a long way to go itself back in the 40's just ask the Tuskegee airmen what kind of welcome they got when they returned home? I look at what I know about history and make my own conclusions.