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Comment by mushufasa | Hacker News Reader

It looks like it's not on the website anymore?

It's true that that swastika (usually going in the other direction) is a buddhist symbol, but it looks like the person who forked it is from Slovenia, which has never been a buddhist country but was briefly a Nazi country. It's hard to believe that was an accidental oversight.

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Still here: https://pdoc3.github.io/pdoc/ (bottom only).

Seems like he means well, but if he means that well, why not remove them?

I think being told what you are not allowed to do by strangers on the internet can elicit a certain stubbornness. I don't blame either side, but think it is strange for people to be so sure of another's intentions.

For what it's worth, I'm not claiming I'm certain he's a nazi sympathizer. What I am claiming is I cannot risk media or competitors making a big deal out of it, even if he means well. Surely that isn't a far out proposition, right?

oh man that's sneaky. They're very faint. The sneak factor does not belie good intentions, regardless of claims.

These barely appeared on my laptop's screen. I went back and checked twice because of comments before actually seeing it.

It's only sneaky if you assume bad intentions. Otherwise they're discreet.

Symbols get irrevocably besmirched all the time. I'm not going to be the person roping in a documentation tool that results in "<FAANG Company X> uses software linked to Nazis" as a BBC headline, you know? That headline alone is going to roflstomp any amount of nuanced rhetoric - and that's giving the maintainer the absolute most kind benefit of the doubt, which I'm not even remotely convinced they actually deserve.

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