Overreacting, or cautious?

I just got the following email:

Hi people,

I was looking for some idea's to design my own tattoo and found some nice material on your site to inspire me.
There was one disappointed however: one tattoo was very cleverly displaying the NAZI-symbol and I had to look a couple of times to be sure.
I don't know if the designer did it intentionally or by accident, but it is there all the same.
Do you have some kind of policy?
To me it seems best to avoid that kind of statements, don't you agree?
I included the picture in smal size and painted the symbol in green to make you notice it too!

I hope you make the right choice.

Yours truly,

Thimon

Here was my reply:
Honestly, I think that you're probably making an assumption on this a little too quickly -- finding swastikas in Celtic designs is very easy when you're willing to look in negative space like that. I'd hate to start going on that sort of a witch hunt.

While I do not post really overt "white power" type tattoos, I'm also really loathed to politically censor the tattoo galleries. I'm just not sure if it's relevant for me to put politics *ahead* of the tattoos in this context especially when it's so vague.

Shannon

What do you think? Did I make the right call in keeping the tattoo posted? Should I really remove every square celtic knot on the site because someone might imagine that there's a swastika in the middle?

Wow Shannon, that's really annoying! What is it, 1997 on Geocities? Retroweb is NOT cool!

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