The Nazi hakenkreuz is not a swastika

Zarna Joshi
17 min readMay 10, 2022

I can’t believe I still have to say this is 2022

*Trigger Warning* Holocaust, anti-semitism, racism, Hinduphobia, genocide, white supremacy, mention of rape culture, slavery, and pedophilia

Image description: Picture of a red sweatshirt on a white background. The hooded sweatshirt is scarlet red, with a white circle centered on the front and a black Nazi hakenkreuz in the center of the white circle.
Screenshot Nazi hakenkreuz merchandize sold on a neo-Nazi website.

The image you see above is the symbol of the Nazis in WWII. It is infamous for what it stood…

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Zarna Joshi

Writer, organizer, spiritual activist, anti-imperialist, decolonizing smasher of the patriarchy, zarnajoshi.com, zarnajoshi.com/blog