Probably a smart move...

So up until last week there was a neighborhood in Cherry Hill, Colorado called Swastika Acres. In 2019. Swastika Acres. Can you believe it? I should probably explain, or you could just click on that link and skip the rest of this. Either way, I mean, you do you.

Pictured: Swastika Acres...huh, I guess I was picturing something
out of Man in the High Castle, but it turns out it's just a street.
Is it weird that I'm a little disappointed? It's weird, isn't it?

Add cultural appropriation to the list
of reasons it's ok to punch these guys.

Still with me? Super. It turns out the neighborhood was named for the Denver Land Swastika Company which got its name before Nazi's where a thing. Huh? I don't know, I guess they sold swastikas or something, the point is the swastika was just a shape or design back in the 19-diggities of whenever, before the Nazis used it. It used to be and still is a religious symbol in some cultures, but for a huge part of the planet's population it's forever inextricably associated with white supremacists.

In Japan, where it has a different, less Nazi-ish connotation, it sometimes crops up in pop culture. Usually these things get altered before making it west, but sometimes not. The level three dungeon in the first Zelda game for example looked like a big 'ol reverse swastika. It's really a Buddhist symbol called a manji, but it wasn't super-well known in America in the late eighties and so:

"Wait, what the hell? Wha-what's...this game tape about again?"

-concerned parents, circa 1986

Why change the charter when all
you need is some white out and-
Huh? Yeah, I hear it...

Anyway, while the neighborhood in Colorado wasn't called Swastika Acres by anyone, it was still the official name on real estate documents so residents wanted it gone. The problem was that until a couple days ago changing the name required all of the homeowners to sign off on it. Which, you'd think they'd be a clause somewhere reading 'unless your neighborhood is called something super racist,' but there wasn't and here we are. Yup, one of the swastikians (I guess?) wanted to keep the name.

I'm not sure updating Zillow
is the same thing as denying the
 Holocaust, but her point stands.

Holy shit, but why? you ask. Well hang on, because the answer isn't even crazy:

"I don’t think you should erase history. What would it be like if people denied the Holocaust? You have to get the facts of history.”

-resident Susan Cooper

who again, lives in a place

called Swastika Acres

They're safe until genocidal
racists use this as their emblem.

Yeah, ok, I can see that. I mean, if there were to be an argument for keeping a name like Swastika Acres, that would be it. In fact, according to the Denver Post, Cooper comes from a family of Holocaust survivors so it's not like she's just some rando holdout, she knows of what she speaks. But either way, the Cherry Hills town council last week changed the name change requirement to a simple majority and just like that, Susan Copper and all the other residents of Swastika Acres live in 'Old Cherry Hills.' Which is probably for the best.

Sure, I've got no stake in this whatsoever, but this is the internet and what is the internet for if not a forum for people to express their weightless, unsolicited opinions about things that don't involve them?

A delivery system for porn?