[daneel_w]

It's precisely what you're doing. You just insist that Western events in the last century are more important, more "valid", and must take precedence.

"A billion people in Asia use, live with and benefit from this symbol on a daily basis, since millennia."

- "OK but what about the atrocities in WW2?"

[simonw]

All I'm doing is here is saying that there's nothing inherently bad about someone deciding they don't want a particular symbol to randomly show up in their generated QR codes.

The pushback I'm getting for expressing that opinion is bizarre.

[Razengan]

The pushback is against the situation that a fewer people want to suppress a symbol THEY co-opted, while other, possibly a majority of people prefer the freedom to continue using it.

Imagine banning "Allah Akbar" after 9/11

or banning the Christian cross because of the atrocities committed during the Crusades

[simonw]

A software library that omits specific randomly generated patterns from a QR code is not "banning" anything.