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[–] AnotherGrayman 0 points 5 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago
As a high school student, I had absolutely no knowledge of the truth about WW2, but I still took great pleasure in drawing swastikas on my notebooks purely because it upset adults. They brought me into the office to ask me why, I told them I thought it was funny, they told me it wasn't, I said "Well that's your opinion, and I have mine."
They shook their heads and let me go. The early '00s weren't as pozzed.
[–] mr_anthrope 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
When I was in 1st grade in the early 80's I got into a bit of trouble for drawing swastikas on my eraser (it was one of those pink ones that's about the size of a Matchbox car). They had my mom come in to talk about it and they asked me why I did that, and I said that it was because my grandpa was in the German army and I thought they looked neat. My mom had to correct me, and let the teacher know, that my grandpa had been in the U.S. Army stationed in Germany and that he was too young to have been in WWII. That cleared a lot of things up for me, but I still thought that swastikas looked neat.