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    Calls for Barnsley Reform councillor to resign over apparent swastika tattoo
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    Calls for Barnsley Reform councillor to resign over apparent swastika tattoo

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    3. PreFuturism-0 on

      It at least seems like a stupid thing to do with how easily people will think it’s a swastika. Is that the only symbol in Buddhism?

    4. AngrySaltire on

      Just taking the” connected to her husband’s brief interest in Buddhism when he was younger.” at face value for a second. Who the heck would think getting such a tattoo in the UK was ever a good idea, never mind keeping it for decades later. Surely anyone who could rub two brain cells together should instantly think getting it is a bad idea.

    5. ironyperson on

      Well done Barnsley, you’ve spat on your grandfathers by electing a Nazi to council.

    6. raven43122 on

      How old is this guy? 

      We talking in his youth? So 50 years ago? 

      1970s?

      Smack bang in the Skinhead culture…. 

    8. SomeoneCouldSay on

      Why would he resign? Barnsley elected him. If they didn’t want the kind of bloke to get a swastika tattoo on their council they wouldn’t have voted for Reform in the first place.

    9. Topinio on

      https://bsky.app/profile/reformexposed.bsky.social/post/3mmh4eewzp22c

      Not very plausibly a Hindu or Buddhist design. I’m sure many who are old enough will have seen similar and recognise it for what it almost certainly is.

      Apparently from his late teens, so 1981-82. Probably did it himself.

      This man is a 62 year old white British Reform member, with a skinhead haircut, who it seems had an old and bad swastika tattoo on his forearm until about 2020.

      He’s covered it up, so well done for that, but only after 2018 so he would have been late 50s and have had this for nearly 40 years. It’s on his forearm so would have caused alarm and distress to minorities and I can’t believe he wouldn’t have known that.

      Even if he didn’t, *somehow*, there’s only one plausible explanation for why no-one he associated with in all that time didn’t say something. Assuming you have non-far right friends, can you imagine no-one saying anything if you got a swastika tattoo?

      A white guy in the UK getting a swastika tatt like this in the 70s or 80s only meant one thing, all this whataboutism online today around Hinduism, Jainism, 45° angles etc is nonsense and not in good faith.

      I can’t make out what the 3 or so capital letters under it say but they would most likely clarify things if there were any higher res photos. The most common lettering that was found above or under this type of swastika tattoo back then would have been the initials of a local gang or football hooligan firm (or the club they supported), or a far right fringe party (NF or BNP, depending on the year).

    10. 2TJay on

      Can’t a man have a Hindu / Buddhist symbol. What’s withall the dharmaphobic views.

    11. Didst_thou_Farteth on

      I’m sure he’d have another buddhist symbol tattoed somewhere about his person?

    12. DylOnReddit on

      You dont get a tattoo of a swastika no matter how much you love Buddhism

    13. DylOnReddit on

      I bet hes got a couple of thunderbolts tattooed on him somewhere due to his love of adverse weather

    14. Old_Commission7428 on

      It’s not an ‘apparent’ Swastika tattoo.

      It IS a Swastika tatoo

    16. Quinaldine on

      I know how awful this all is and I’m the last person to vote Reform. But white British people are a minority in Barnsley so it’s no suprise this is happening

    20. Sir_Henry_Deadman on

      “its a buddist symbol”

      And you got it specifically because you get to ‘um actually’ people

      Probably the same reason all that vintage Robinsons jam paraphernalia and old Noddy books

    21. CappinAP on

      I’m tired of everyone thinking reform is for the bigoted, this man is clearly a proud Hindu