I'm hella short, not a chance I could sit and use the table. This is a college campus, I think they can trust the students to move their own stools as they see fit.
Not to mention the multiple stress points likely to fail from misplaced weight because they made the whole thing out of 2mm wall (at most) box tubing with likely less than a 1mm of weld penetration.
I could make something lighter and more structurally sound with a pipe bender and 4 pieces of aluminium tubing, and you could stretch your legs.
The table itself will flex since it’s connected to all 4 chairs by what looks like 2 attachment points. So depending* on where someone sits, it’ll flex and not be flat but marginally
there's no way on god's blasted ruined Earth that this thing won't require napkins under at least two legs for stabilization
LPT If you rotate the table, before you rotate it 90 degrees, you'll find a stable spot where it won't move. The table might not be level, but it won't be wobbly
This is geometrically interesting, but practically useless. Assuming the table is round and not expandable, people rotate tables to place the chairs between legs, and people place chairs based on room design.
No one is going to just place their dining room table and chairs at a random 63.7° because that's the "no wobble" angle lol
A lot of round tables have a centre leg that have legs that spread outwards on the ground. Those ones you can rotate easily. Agree it sucks on other ones.
While that may be true, it feels very much along the lines of “not a pedophile because pedophiles are attracted to children, you mean ephebophiles, they’re attracted to teenagers!”.
The Swastika is much older than the Nazis abuse of it, and is still in use around the world in its original form. It is used on many maps to identify Buddhist temples.
Your example fails, because they all fall under 18 and are thus considered minors in all cases.
The fact you can only see the Nazi use of it is disrespectful to the Buddhists.
Questionable esthetics, aside, those are incredibly impractical. Minimal leg room, not accessible to anyone with mobility issues, no back support, nowhere to drape a coat or bag, not adjustable for the varying sizes and shapes of the human body, a pain to properly clean around…
Ignoring the not-quite swastika thing (wrong direction for a swastika, right direction for sauwastika (the ancient symbol they reversed)), those tables aren't even flat... I mean, I guess it's a break room or something, but still... all tables should be flat.
edit: I like how I tried to set aside the obvious thing that everyone else already commented on (like, that part is fucking obvious, I was just trying to add an extra to the conversation), and was trying to focus on just how terrible that surface is (IT'S NOT FLAT!) lol
Nobody likes the change besides this issue, we went from having 6 regular tables were 8 people can sit to an assortment of different ones that are not comfortable at all especially considering that people study and eat there
Yea they don’t want you to continue sitting there for long periods of time. This is an intentional design change to something less comfortable and less appealing so you leave faster. Lots of companies deploy tactics like this including the oversized company that is the USA. In America you can see design changes in places where they don’t want “loitering” or more likely a design change to discourage unhoused people from sitting or sleeping in that area. You can also see this in the way companies use color theory in their logos. For example red and yellow, commonly seen in fast food logos red gives a sense of urgency where yellow is an energized color to help enforce the feeling of speed.
To me it’s like the most tangible symbol of neoliberalism—something that used to be a public good transformed into something ugly, exclusionary, and made to benefit the wealthy at the expense of everyone else.
Yeah I've done new and remodel construction on chain restaurants and it usually stated in the specs how long the chairs are meant to be comfortable for typically somewhere around 12 minutes. They want you to be comfortable enough to sit down eat the food and get the hell out. McDonald's tried going the other way for a bit when they were testing their McCafe design, but last I saw they went back on that.
Hostile architecture. It has levels of hostility to it from being uncomfortable to literal spikes that can harm someone. Why do people think to themselves "I know how to fix this issue! I just have to be a jack ass!" Like why? All that money in research and design to make other people less comfortable and safe. The actual fuck, man...
You can't pull up a chair because, well there aren't any chairs. Also, the design dictates that even if you wanted to have a 5th pull up, their legs are going to be right up on that metal piece
Lots of companies deploy tactics like this including the oversized company that is the USA.
They just did this at my company. There was no need for the change. Tables and chairs we had were perfectly fine. Jokes on them: We got all the chairs outta the dumpster and now we can sit and hide.
And you can’t face inwards comfortably, those seats would work on a square table, going into the side, but even a straight leg connector that you’d need to straddle would be better than this shit.
Ignoring the not-quite swastika thing (wrong direction for a swastika, right direction for sauwastika (the ancient symbol they reversed)),
Bro every time I see people talk about swastikas they make up new explanations for what direction, orientation, and shape and color a swastika has to be.
It's a swastika. If it's facing the other way? Still a swastika.
The only distinction that matters is "Is this a Nazi swastika?" and the way you tell if a swastika is a Nazi swastika is.... If it's a Nazi swastika. The shape, orientation, etc are not the sole determining factors of that.
Don't ever look at Japan on Google Maps, then. Every Buddhist shrine is marked with that symbol (the one facing opposite the swastika), because it's a sacred symbol still used heavily throughout Asia. So for a few billion people, it's not a Nazi symbol.
I honestly don't give a fuck what direction it's facing, a swastika is a swastika, outside of East Asian countries it only has one meaning, and that's hatred.
That being said, in a practical engineering sense it's not a big deal. I can see what they were attempting to do, and it's not problematic, even if their implementation might be flawed.
I don't see what they were attempting to do.... I feel they could've done something similar without the added bars to make it look like a swastika. I feel the added bars that take it from a cross to a swastika: added complexity, room for error, reduced structural integrity, and are overall just not needed...
Maybe I'm wrong, but they could've reinforced it with a cross looking shape, unless I'm missing something.
I honestly don't give a fuck what direction it's facing, a swastika is a swastika, outside of East Asian countries it only has one meaning, and that's hatred.
It's one of the most geometrically simple and common shapes and it's been in use heavily in cultures across the world outside of Southeast Asia. India? Native Americans in the United States? Europe, before the 30s?
You're basically making the argument "No, we NEED to give the swastika to the Nazis. We're NOT allowed to try and combat its usage as a fascist symbol." It's pathetic to be so willing to kowtow towards fascists and hand over whatever they want on a silver platter.
I wasn't worried about who cares or not, that wasn't the point of my statement, and literally why I stated that: a table needs to be flat, that's the most frustrating part about the table.
In Minecraft I once built a villager spawner. To do that you need doors & stuff like that. The more doors the better. So I built an "apartment complex" style thing. It had four wings with a middle courtyard. My plan was to take the villagers, lock them in their own apartment and set up my trading with them. I surrounded the whole thing with a fence to keep them in while I bred them before distribution.
A buddy came online and said, "Have you looked at this thing from the air?" I hadn't. We were on vanilla, not creative. So I stacked some blocks and went high in the air.
You guessed it, I built a swastika shaped prison for my villagers. It was torn down immediately.
Symbol from the air aside, which could have been altered visually and was rarely scene anyways, you didn’t build a death camp, you built a slaver pens and breeding accommodations for selling digital humans. You even had to hunt them down and get them in the pen too. You just were lucky to skip the transporting them over an ocean after capture. You were a Slave Master.
In the context in Minecraft I don’t Know what anyone would do with villagers. Trade with them? I don’t understand but don;t need to I guess.
Maybe I'm just getting old, but tbh I think the answer is a combination of vandalism and community outreach. Gotta be someones out in the community willing to help rectify the situation. Looks like you'd need tools either way.
Yknow when in Spiderverse where the teacher gives Miles a 100% because he “Could’ve only gotten everything wrong if he knew everything on the test that was right.”
This is an exception. Every single thing here is wrong, and I don’t believe the people who constructed this know what was right.
I get it's a different symbol, but the people rushing to yell "it's not a swastika!" feel like they have the same energy as arguing the different types of kid diddlers.
So you can't even sit facing perpendicular to the table? You're arm will literally be a tangent line at the edge of the table just to sit comfortably.
Did nazi this coming on my 2025 bingo card.
Ignoring the obvious, what a terrible design. This was definitely not tested at all or tested by people shorter than 5 feet. Any average sized person is going to be cramped in those seats and 2/4 seats have a raised bump for a QR code right in front of them where their food would be. Pretty dumb all around.
Wow they managed to make a table into a swastika and have it simultaneously unusable with the bars in the way of your legs. Bless the soul of that designer.
ignoring the symbol, how are you supposed to sit on this properly. referring to chair infront, wouldn't your left leg just hit that pole? why couldnt' they just make the bar straight like a normal table.
My gf studied art restauration. She told me in college they had to actually check if their art can somehow be interpreted as a swastika because apparently the swastika appears accidentally more often than you'd guess.
Those stools look like they would be very uncomfortable on your Auschwitz... swastitables, coming to a Youth Center near you. WTF. Either someone is an idiot or they just dont want to hide anymore. Apparently they spent all their money on their Nazi furniture and didnt have anything left in the budget for a broom.
Consulting money just thrown out the window. I had never heard of EY before but they're clearly tasteless and don't know aesthetics. How can you say you know aesthetics and not notice the swastika? Lmao.
To their defense? I went to architect school and you’d be surprised how many time people accidentally make a swastikaesque design without realizing it. Though this table is way too clear tho so it’s maybe on them lol
They should make the bars lower so they can kinda act like a mini footstool for my left foot to step on kinda like how some buses have that mini ledge for you to rest a step when seated?
if building games taught me anything is the spiral is extremely useful. it maximize surface exposure, minimize the area used and theres a way to exit without passing through the branches. if you are building square froms spiral become... well... controversial
If the stools are independently connected to the floor why the hell do they need to be connected to each other? Why not just connect the table too at that point?
Those QR code pucks would pop right off. The Ernst and Young crap is just a stick on vinyl topper. And the swastika could be fixed with a cheap junior hacksaw
those look like they belong in a prison area. Not comfortable looking at all! Those of us with big butts and short legs and arms would hate these! Plus, are they even ADA compliant at all? How would a wheelchair user possibly be able to use this table?
Guys, it's only Nazi shit if it's from the 1932-45 NSDAP in Berlin. Militarized white supremecist populist movements from anywhere else are actually sparkling Fascism guys. C'mon guys.
This is what you sound like when you say this isn't a swastika because the arms are reversed.
Even if that were some sort of symbology, it would not be a nazi swastika, it is pointing the wrong way and would be the symbol for good luck and prosperity in Jainism and other eastern religions.
Sure, but as a business, is it a good idea to provide something designed like this when a large portion of people would think that way? It’s your public image, regardless of whether it’s based on a misunderstood symbol of good luck.
At best, you’ll get a bunch of complaints and petitions to have the design changed, which may cost more money in the long run anyway.
Does anyone in this thread actually think the designer of this table intentionally made a swastika? Presumably while twirling their moustache and laughing?
Everyone is trying to set aside the whole swastika thing but it's definitely the entire point, no? Why else make these tables in this horrendous design? The entire point is the swastika, or am I wrong?
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Bro. Wtf is this? My legs can't ever stretch even if I was alone? No back support? The chair looks too far out. This is ass design
Not to be confused with something designed for an ass. Which this is not.
They did Nazi that coming… /s
The table has too many Reich angles.
I’d be Füherious
They'd better Sieg a new artist and Heil this one a cab elsewhere.
Careful, it was a failing artist that got us into this mess.
What's this guy gonna do, start a war?
I will say they Hitler a jack pot
The design is really SSteticly pleasing.
I'm assuming the initial design has a straight line but they couldn't just slide into the chair, they had to straddle every time.
I'm hella short, not a chance I could sit and use the table. This is a college campus, I think they can trust the students to move their own stools as they see fit.
I think they can trust the students to build a pyramid out of the stools when no-one is watching.
Or steal some for their dorm/apartment.
If the stools are bolted down, I assume it's so they aren't used as a weapon lol.
This gave me a chuckle. I wish I could give you an award, best I can do is an updoot.
No asses were involved in the R&D phase of this product
Not to mention it looks like a swastika too 😭
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Deutschland is happy and gay!
It made my legs look for more lebensraum.
That was my first thought...
Well yeah, because that's the whole point of the post
Yeah this got worse the more I looked at it.
Sawasstika
It’s also shaped like a swastika!!
There’s bigger problems with the table than that. Where to start? Probably, a small town just north of Salzburg, Austria.
Not to mention the multiple stress points likely to fail from misplaced weight because they made the whole thing out of 2mm wall (at most) box tubing with likely less than a 1mm of weld penetration.
I could make something lighter and more structurally sound with a pipe bender and 4 pieces of aluminium tubing, and you could stretch your legs.
I am kind of impressed at their ability to do literally everything wrong.
0/10 cannot even be used for kindling
It reminds me of the hostile architecture they use to try to repel homeless people. Maybe they don't want anyone to actually sit there.
This is what I was thinking - it's to keep people from lingering.
If people are sitting at the table, how is anyone going to scan our QR code!?
Read my mind.
To repel Jewish homeless
It feels like the swastika was the primary design goal. None of this looks like it was designed by anyone with sense.
Came here to say this. They wanted a swastika, period.
I'm confused on what people are seeing to say it's not flat.
I think its the raised QR codes? Which I assume will be either vandalized or scratched up within a year
Ah ok. I thought they meant the table itself.
The table itself will flex since it’s connected to all 4 chairs by what looks like 2 attachment points. So depending* on where someone sits, it’ll flex and not be flat but marginally
Edit: typo fix
LPT If you rotate the table, before you rotate it 90 degrees, you'll find a stable spot where it won't move. The table might not be level, but it won't be wobbly
This is geometrically interesting, but practically useless. Assuming the table is round and not expandable, people rotate tables to place the chairs between legs, and people place chairs based on room design.
No one is going to just place their dining room table and chairs at a random 63.7° because that's the "no wobble" angle lol
A lot of round tables have a centre leg that have legs that spread outwards on the ground. Those ones you can rotate easily. Agree it sucks on other ones.
as far as wobbly shit, the far chair and the close chair are already bent.
On the bright side, it’s a Buddhist swastika, given the orientation. The Nazi one rotates in the opposite direction.
Not if you’re laying on the floor looking up ;)
Only if you're not dyslexic.
Fellow Dyslexics of the World, UNTIE!
While that may be true, it feels very much along the lines of “not a pedophile because pedophiles are attracted to children, you mean ephebophiles, they’re attracted to teenagers!”.
Not really.
The Swastika is much older than the Nazis abuse of it, and is still in use around the world in its original form. It is used on many maps to identify Buddhist temples.
Your example fails, because they all fall under 18 and are thus considered minors in all cases.
The fact you can only see the Nazi use of it is disrespectful to the Buddhists.
One person can ruin something for everyone unfortunately
Took me a second to see the swastika, I was too annoyed by the leg-positioning debacle.
I just have to say I love “0/10 cannot even be used for kindling.” Points out precisely how useless this is.
Questionable esthetics, aside, those are incredibly impractical. Minimal leg room, not accessible to anyone with mobility issues, no back support, nowhere to drape a coat or bag, not adjustable for the varying sizes and shapes of the human body, a pain to properly clean around…
EY? More like EW!
With the bar on the left side of your legs, it is really only suitable for those looking towards the reich.
Why has nobody commented on how dirty the cafeteria floors are?! Like at least pick up the trash if you're not gonna mop lmao
Got way to far down to see this comment
Ignoring the not-quite swastika thing (wrong direction for a swastika, right direction for sauwastika (the ancient symbol they reversed)), those tables aren't even flat... I mean, I guess it's a break room or something, but still... all tables should be flat.
edit: I like how I tried to set aside the obvious thing that everyone else already commented on (like, that part is fucking obvious, I was just trying to add an extra to the conversation), and was trying to focus on just how terrible that surface is (IT'S NOT FLAT!) lol
Nobody likes the change besides this issue, we went from having 6 regular tables were 8 people can sit to an assortment of different ones that are not comfortable at all especially considering that people study and eat there
Yea they don’t want you to continue sitting there for long periods of time. This is an intentional design change to something less comfortable and less appealing so you leave faster. Lots of companies deploy tactics like this including the oversized company that is the USA. In America you can see design changes in places where they don’t want “loitering” or more likely a design change to discourage unhoused people from sitting or sleeping in that area. You can also see this in the way companies use color theory in their logos. For example red and yellow, commonly seen in fast food logos red gives a sense of urgency where yellow is an energized color to help enforce the feeling of speed.
There was a performance artist that intentionally made places to rest on these anti-loitering public spaces. It was quite interesting
EDIT: Seems this has garnered some attention. This is what I was referring to: https://m.youtube.com/shorts/5rHhXM12rco
Made in 2003. Were cooked yall!
That is super cool! It’s absolutely fucking sad that people have weaponized fucking chairs before they will do something to help the unhoused.
To me it’s like the most tangible symbol of neoliberalism—something that used to be a public good transformed into something ugly, exclusionary, and made to benefit the wealthy at the expense of everyone else.
Do you know the artist’s name? I’d be interested in seeing that. I absolutely despise the current trend toward hostile design in public spaces.
Updated post with a link to what I was referring to. Made over 20 years ago. We are so fuggin cooked!
Yeah I've done new and remodel construction on chain restaurants and it usually stated in the specs how long the chairs are meant to be comfortable for typically somewhere around 12 minutes. They want you to be comfortable enough to sit down eat the food and get the hell out. McDonald's tried going the other way for a bit when they were testing their McCafe design, but last I saw they went back on that.
Hostile architecture. It has levels of hostility to it from being uncomfortable to literal spikes that can harm someone. Why do people think to themselves "I know how to fix this issue! I just have to be a jack ass!" Like why? All that money in research and design to make other people less comfortable and safe. The actual fuck, man...
You can't pull up a chair because, well there aren't any chairs. Also, the design dictates that even if you wanted to have a 5th pull up, their legs are going to be right up on that metal piece
They just did this at my company. There was no need for the change. Tables and chairs we had were perfectly fine. Jokes on them: We got all the chairs outta the dumpster and now we can sit and hide.
Look up hostile architecture for more examples of what the other guy was explaining
and it's not even flat! lol, like, terrible design all around (raised qr codes and what looks like raised text (but not as raised?)
That raised QR code is great for writing!
They want people to just not sit there or do anything. Maybe start sitting ON THE TABLES to study/ eat/ hang out.
How dare the public/ society use pubic/ social spaces!/s
And you can’t face inwards comfortably, those seats would work on a square table, going into the side, but even a straight leg connector that you’d need to straddle would be better than this shit.
What suggests that the table isn’t flat? Or are you talking about the 2 barcode plaques?
Just don’t lay on the floor
The table looks pretty flat to me.
An easy way to figure if it is one or not is to check if it's formed out of SS, which was also the name of their paramilitary organisation
ZZ - not one
SS - it is one
Bro every time I see people talk about swastikas they make up new explanations for what direction, orientation, and shape and color a swastika has to be.
It's a swastika. If it's facing the other way? Still a swastika.
The only distinction that matters is "Is this a Nazi swastika?" and the way you tell if a swastika is a Nazi swastika is.... If it's a Nazi swastika. The shape, orientation, etc are not the sole determining factors of that.
Don't ever look at Japan on Google Maps, then. Every Buddhist shrine is marked with that symbol (the one facing opposite the swastika), because it's a sacred symbol still used heavily throughout Asia. So for a few billion people, it's not a Nazi symbol.
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I honestly don't give a fuck what direction it's facing, a swastika is a swastika, outside of East Asian countries it only has one meaning, and that's hatred. That being said, in a practical engineering sense it's not a big deal. I can see what they were attempting to do, and it's not problematic, even if their implementation might be flawed.
I don't see what they were attempting to do.... I feel they could've done something similar without the added bars to make it look like a swastika. I feel the added bars that take it from a cross to a swastika: added complexity, room for error, reduced structural integrity, and are overall just not needed...
Maybe I'm wrong, but they could've reinforced it with a cross looking shape, unless I'm missing something.
It's one of the most geometrically simple and common shapes and it's been in use heavily in cultures across the world outside of Southeast Asia. India? Native Americans in the United States? Europe, before the 30s?
You're basically making the argument "No, we NEED to give the swastika to the Nazis. We're NOT allowed to try and combat its usage as a fascist symbol." It's pathetic to be so willing to kowtow towards fascists and hand over whatever they want on a silver platter.
I wasn't worried about who cares or not, that wasn't the point of my statement, and literally why I stated that: a table needs to be flat, that's the most frustrating part about the table.
It is the right original indian (from India) direction.
It's not the Nazi Swastika (which is the "wrong" direction)
In Minecraft I once built a villager spawner. To do that you need doors & stuff like that. The more doors the better. So I built an "apartment complex" style thing. It had four wings with a middle courtyard. My plan was to take the villagers, lock them in their own apartment and set up my trading with them. I surrounded the whole thing with a fence to keep them in while I bred them before distribution.
A buddy came online and said, "Have you looked at this thing from the air?" I hadn't. We were on vanilla, not creative. So I stacked some blocks and went high in the air.
You guessed it, I built a swastika shaped prison for my villagers. It was torn down immediately.
Symbol from the air aside, which could have been altered visually and was rarely scene anyways, you didn’t build a death camp, you built a slaver pens and breeding accommodations for selling digital humans. You even had to hunt them down and get them in the pen too. You just were lucky to skip the transporting them over an ocean after capture. You were a Slave Master.
In the context in Minecraft I don’t Know what anyone would do with villagers. Trade with them? I don’t understand but don;t need to I guess.
Maybe I'm just getting old, but tbh I think the answer is a combination of vandalism and community outreach. Gotta be someones out in the community willing to help rectify the situation. Looks like you'd need tools either way.
Yknow when in Spiderverse where the teacher gives Miles a 100% because he “Could’ve only gotten everything wrong if he knew everything on the test that was right.”
This is an exception. Every single thing here is wrong, and I don’t believe the people who constructed this know what was right.
I get it's a different symbol, but the people rushing to yell "it's not a swastika!" feel like they have the same energy as arguing the different types of kid diddlers.
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar
And sometimes it's a big brown dick with some fat businessmen sucking on the wet end.
So you can't even sit facing perpendicular to the table? You're arm will literally be a tangent line at the edge of the table just to sit comfortably. Did nazi this coming on my 2025 bingo card.
Ignoring the obvious, what a terrible design. This was definitely not tested at all or tested by people shorter than 5 feet. Any average sized person is going to be cramped in those seats and 2/4 seats have a raised bump for a QR code right in front of them where their food would be. Pretty dumb all around.
Wow they managed to make a table into a swastika and have it simultaneously unusable with the bars in the way of your legs. Bless the soul of that designer.
ignoring the symbol, how are you supposed to sit on this properly. referring to chair infront, wouldn't your left leg just hit that pole? why couldnt' they just make the bar straight like a normal table.
My gf studied art restauration. She told me in college they had to actually check if their art can somehow be interpreted as a swastika because apparently the swastika appears accidentally more often than you'd guess.
There are so many points of failure in this, and any one of them would end up injuring anyone sitting at this bizarre piece of furniture.
Not to mention if they'd made it as an I or H shape it would have saved material and construction time.
Those stools look like they would be very uncomfortable on your Auschwitz... swastitables, coming to a Youth Center near you. WTF. Either someone is an idiot or they just dont want to hide anymore. Apparently they spent all their money on their Nazi furniture and didnt have anything left in the budget for a broom.
Consulting money just thrown out the window. I had never heard of EY before but they're clearly tasteless and don't know aesthetics. How can you say you know aesthetics and not notice the swastika? Lmao.
To their defense? I went to architect school and you’d be surprised how many time people accidentally make a swastikaesque design without realizing it. Though this table is way too clear tho so it’s maybe on them lol
r/accidentalswastika
Due to the circle and metal frame, from above it forms a nazi symbol. That's something to with how it is so uncomfortable.
Great Nazi chairs that don't work.
Good look Ernst and Young Consulting - are all your partners morons?
Now that the IPO is toast, I guess we'll see AI nuke your PS biz....
Too bad you didn't do the ACN back-office/IT stuff...
They should make the bars lower so they can kinda act like a mini footstool for my left foot to step on kinda like how some buses have that mini ledge for you to rest a step when seated?
if building games taught me anything is the spiral is extremely useful. it maximize surface exposure, minimize the area used and theres a way to exit without passing through the branches. if you are building square froms spiral become... well... controversial
If the stools are independently connected to the floor why the hell do they need to be connected to each other? Why not just connect the table too at that point?
Those QR code pucks would pop right off. The Ernst and Young crap is just a stick on vinyl topper. And the swastika could be fixed with a cheap junior hacksaw
those look like they belong in a prison area. Not comfortable looking at all! Those of us with big butts and short legs and arms would hate these! Plus, are they even ADA compliant at all? How would a wheelchair user possibly be able to use this table?
Everyone concerned about the left leg being pinned could do well worth a proper lesson on sitting from the Princess of Genovia.
This is what you sound like when you say this isn't a swastika because the arms are reversed.
This is not a swastika. This is backwards for a swastika. Which is a sacred symbol used in Buddhism and Hinduism that has a positive meaning
Even if that were some sort of symbology, it would not be a nazi swastika, it is pointing the wrong way and would be the symbol for good luck and prosperity in Jainism and other eastern religions.
But it's a Manji, technically, not a Swastika. Of course people not knowing about it are gonna immediately misunderstand
And with good reason. Why would a company not know that and avoid even the misconception of it being a swastika?
They definitely couldn't have seen that coming. /s
r/missedopportunity
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They were not in their reich mind.
Sure, but as a business, is it a good idea to provide something designed like this when a large portion of people would think that way? It’s your public image, regardless of whether it’s based on a misunderstood symbol of good luck.
At best, you’ll get a bunch of complaints and petitions to have the design changed, which may cost more money in the long run anyway.
Absolutely 100% behind you
Does anyone in this thread actually think the designer of this table intentionally made a swastika? Presumably while twirling their moustache and laughing?
Does it matter when it’s genuinely one of the worst table designs you could ever make.
These have been tried before--not a new design (though a poorer version of the original). Someone took a kickback. Or had an aneurism...
Everyone is trying to set aside the whole swastika thing but it's definitely the entire point, no? Why else make these tables in this horrendous design? The entire point is the swastika, or am I wrong?
You are wrong. The bad swastika faces the other direction