or piss. We love to piss on things we hate. Been doing it for centuries.
I think the whole heart thing comes from where you feel it and hate absolutely occupies the heart too. Same way we associate sadness with heartbreak.
✝️ definitely this
symbol of a torture device. checks out.
Tesla symbol
Also, red MAGA hats. Often seen together these days.
🖕🏻or ❌?
The liver. It produces bile.
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The swastika is a fairly obvious symbol of hate, same with a white pointed hood.
They aren’t normally used in a generic fashion though.
Maybe a red lightsaber?
The Nazis appropriated it from other cultures. Being a fairly simple symbol, it shows up in religions around the world. “Nazis” are not the first thing most Indians think of when they see a swastika.
I agree that in western culture it’s pretty synonymous with a host of vile connotations, and it’s been successfully appropriated - like red baseball caps. But it’s not fair to the swastika, and it certainly isn’t a universal meaning for the symbol, whereas the heart has no other meaning for most people in the world; that is, of there’s any symbolism assigned to a heart by a person, it’s probably “love.”
I can’t suggest a similar, universal symbol for hatred, although as someone else suggested, a clenched fist is probably a good candidate. 👊🏽
a clenched fist is probably a good candidate. 👊🏽
Looks like a fist-bump lol
First bump… to your face!
It’s obviously a fucking swastika. It’s not even a question. The swastika has been used as a symbol of hate since the late 1930’s.
Not universally, though. There are parts of the world where the swastika has had positive nazi-free associations for centuries. I occasionally drive home past this temple which is decorated with swastikas. One of the oldest churches in the city has swastikas in its stained glass windows. And one of the staff members where I work is named Swastika because it’s an old family name in her country of origin and her parents only heard about WWII as something that happened far away.
I think OP was playing the role of “a westerner with absolutely no knowledge of history or religion” when they made the comment.
😡 probably?
Robert Sternberg saw three main elements in hatred:
- a negation of intimacy, by creating distance when closeness had become threatening;
- an infusion of passion, such as fear or anger;
- a decision to devalue a previously valued object.
The front-facing fist 👊: Threatening, intense, replicable (most people have hands)
The down-facing knife 🔪: sharp, cold, calculated
There are also very specific symbols of hatred, like the swastika and the Nazi salute, white-hooded robes and burning crosses, the flag of the Daesh, the Z of the RAF for the West et al., but all of those are tied to certain ideologies and cultures and might not make any sense outside of relevant situations.
A skull, with sharp pointy teeth, chewing on a baby
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