by booned
My wife is Buddhist and we periodically go to a Buddhist temple. They have some amazing golden statues, many of which have a symbol on their chests which look quite a bit like a Nazi swastika.Of course, the Buddhist symbol predates the swastika by millenia. Yet I'm sure some non-Buddhists who visit the temple get offended when they see what looks to them like a swastika everywhere.
What would you expect the Buddhists to do in this case? Stop using it? Or politely correct this ignorance and point out that one thing has nothing to do with that other thing?