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(JNS) The man and woman waiting for their Lyft ride expressed shock and began recording after the blue car arrived with a swastika drawn in red on the hood.
UNACCEPTABLE: A @lyft driver was riding around with a swastika on his hood.
He claimed it was just an innocent Hindu symbol.
UNACCEPTABLE: A @lyft driver was riding around with a swastika on his hood.
He claimed it was just an innocent Hindu symbol. pic.twitter.com/iUcj4mVpBK
— Frum TikTok (@FrumTikTok) July 21, 2024
The driver claimed ignorance of the symbol’s Nazi associations, saying he had put it on the Tesla intending to reference the Hindu swastika. His passengers refused to get into the vehicle and informed him of the symbol’s racist and antisemitic connotations, which inspired him to pull out a cloth to wipe off the red drawing from the blue hood.
The location of the incident and identity of the driver are unknown.
“Lyft unequivocally condemns antisemitism and all forms of discrimination. We are unable to positively locate any Lyft driver matching the available information,” a Lyft spokesperson told JNS. “We encourage anyone with further details to contact us.”
Sorry, but he’s right. The symbol you have displayed in this article is the reverse of a swastika, which is a popular symbol in Buddhist and, possibly, Hindu traditions. I don’t know what it means to or in either of those traditions.