For someone to say that the current social meaning of the swastika cannot be rehabilitated, I would feel as though they have no belief in the progression of humanity. The original meaning of the symbol was different from what it is interpreted as now. If the meaning was shifted from one definition to another by man at one point in history, there’s no logical reason to doubt that it could happen again. No matter what the symbol’s new meaning becomes, I would not call the process a “rehabilitation.” In my mind, that term is relative, not universal. To me, the swastika’s social impact and interpretation is more likely to change the more time passes since the introduction of its current meaning.
