TWICE star Chaeyoung is causing a buzz on Twitter after she was found wearing a shirt with the Swastika sign on it. The post caused widespread reactions across the K-pop fandom and many demanded.

The group approached Assemblywoman Rebecca Bauer-Kahan, who has introduced a bill co-authored by Marin Assemblyman Marc Levine, that would equalize the penalties for using swastikas, nooses and.

𝐍𝐨𝐰 𝐆𝐞𝐭 𝐀 𝐆𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐬𝐞 𝐎𝐟 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐱𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐒𝐇𝐑𝐈𝐌𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐅𝐢𝐥𝐦.

But isn’t the swastika a Hindu religious symbol? The earliest known swastika, on an ivory mammoth tusk located in present-day Ukraine, has been dated to 10,000 BC. The ancient symbol has been found in Mesopotamia, the Americas, Algeria, and the Far East. The swastika has a civilisational presence in India.

Since 1945, the swastika has served as the most significant and notorious of hate symbols, anti-Semitism and white supremacy for most of the world outside of Asia. Its display is prohibited in Germany and some other countries, leading some right-wing extremists to devise variants or alternatives to the swastika that would evoke a similar effect.