And last night I think my point crystalized a bit more: take the swastika. There is, for example, an old building in a suburb of Boston which is ringed with swastikas. Hard to look at, especially if much of your family was murdered by people who took over the symbol and made it one of the ultimate expressions of evil. But it’s also used a symbol in other cultures, has stood as a symbol of peace, and just plain has other meanings - unless of course it’s tilted in a circle on a red flag or accompanied by the SS lightning symbol. Rip the building down? Or recognize that other meanings exist? We’re not talking about something like a word which people use all the time, as in “Masters Degree” or “Master class” or “I mastered that skill” or “master shot”, not a word that some people might sometime feel makes them mentally associate that word with being a slave, but a symbol which conveys the worst possible mass murder. If we rip that building down, if we put away or burn all the old artifacts that use the swastika, then we’re culture destroying barbarians, no better than the Taliban destroying old Buddhas because they offend the deeply iconoclastic Islamic sect.