They’re still considered good, just not in western society.

Swastikas were considered lucky or otherwise good, until the Nazis defiled them. Here’s a poster from World War 1, with Columbia summoning the manhood of America to arms; notice the swastika on the shield:
 

 
Upvoted this pic just to help a little bit in taking a good old symbol back from evil.

The name is from Sanskrit, the primary liturgical language of Hinduism and used in Buddhism for literary.

@Background Pony  
I know what it’s from but what I’m saying is it’s name IS ’swastika’, it had that name BEFORE the nazi party used it…

So, it’s a blind, Buddhist, ninja pony crossover.
 

How the swastika became associated with nazism is an interesting thing. The truth is that the Reich was a very nationalistic party and the swastika represented a symbol harkening back to that. Here’s an excerpt from Wiki:
 
In the Western world, the symbol experienced a resurgence following the archaeological work in the late 19th century of Heinrich Schliemann, who discovered the symbol in the site of ancient Troy and associated it with the ancient migrations of Proto-Indo-Europeans. He connected it with similar shapes found on ancient pots in Germany, and theorized that the swastika was a “significant religious symbol of our remote ancestors”, linking Germanic, Greek and Indo-Iranian cultures.[49][50] By the early 20th century, it was used worldwide and was regarded as a symbol of good luck and success.
 
The work of Schliemann soon became intertwined with the völkisch movements, for which the swastika was a symbol of the “Aryan race”, a concept that came to be equated by theorists such as Alfred Rosenberg with a Nordic master race originating in northern Europe. Since its adoption by the Nazi Party of Adolf Hitler, the swastika has been associated with Nazism, fascism, racism (white supremacy), the Axis powers in World War II, and the Holocaust in much of the West. The swastika remains a core symbol of Neo-Nazi groups, and is used regularly by activist groups.  
Carlsberg’s Elephant Tower.
 
The Benedictine choir school at Lambach Abbey, Upper Austria, which Hitler attended for several months as a boy, had a swastika chiseled into the monastery portal and also the wall above the spring grotto in the courtyard by 1868. Their origin was the personal coat of arms of Abbot Theoderich Hagn of the monastery in Lambach, which bore a golden swastika with slanted points on a blue field.[51] The Lambach swastika is probably of Medieval origin. The Danish brewery company Carlsberg Group used the swastika as a logo[52] from the 19th Century until the middle of the 1930s when it was discontinued because of association with the Nazi Party in neighbouring Germany. However, the swastika carved on elephants at the entrance gates of the company’s headquarters in Copenhagen in 1901 can still be seen today.[53]

Dear Princess Celestia today we taught each other.

So whait… buddhist monks created nazism and burnad tibetans in death camps?
 
Good thing USA stomped them.

Thank you hoers.

In this orientation it is a symbol of fortune and goodwill. It has positive connotations in Buddhism and Hinduism. In fact, on many maps in Japan a swastika such as this denotes Buddhist temples.
 
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The symbol is also called the manji. Like the pentagram, it’s got a bunch of different meanings associated with it. I can’t remember what the meaning from Naruto is supposed to be.

@NightJack
 
No, like I said it has it’s roots in Buddhist and Hindu culture and was later adopted by various European countries.

This beautiful Neji pony will probably get downvoted by ignorant people.

@Too_Offensive  
She? Who do you mean?

@Background Pony  
It is a swastika, that’s the name for it, it’s just not the Nazi swastika…

@PwnyPony  
Apparently ‘swastika’ literally translates as ‘to be good.’ Ironic how it’s now synonymous with bigotry and hatred.

NOTE:  
The symbol appears to be a left facing swastika, unlike the Nazi Swastika right facing one.

Before anyone says anything, that’s not a swastika it’s a Buddhist symbol for…something, I don’t remember what and I’m too lazy to look it up.

She probably has to explain that a lot.

i gotta remember that the reverse means peace or something.