Senior citizens living in swastika

I missed this a week ago when it broke:

Retirement home tries a second renovation to rid itself of swastika shape

DECATUR, Ala. -- From the ground, the Wesley Acres Methodist retirement home looks like any other building. But fly over in an airplane, and the outline is unmistakable: It's one big swastika.

Prompted by complaints from a Jewish activist, the agency that owns the government-funded building is planning to alter its shape to disguise the Nazi symbol. The move comes just a few years after a $1 million design modification meant to quiet similar complaints from a U.S. senator.

And indeed, it does look similar to a swastika:

I have no problem with Jewish folks being offended by the symbol associated with the holocaust. What makes this a little over the top for me is the claim of conspiracy from Avrahaum Segol:

The latest push to rid the landscape of the broken cross shape follows complaints from Avrahaum Segol, the same Israeli-American researcher who last fall helped publicize a swastika-shaped barracks at Naval Base Coronado in San Diego. The Navy said it would spend about $600,000 to alter the building, which opened in the 1960s, but the work has not yet been done.

Segol calls the Alabama retirement home a "sister swastika" to the building in California and says they were both part of a tangled, government-funded conspiracy to honor Nazis.

Segol claims the swastika shape of Wesley Acres in Decatur pays homage to the German scientists who came to nearby Huntsville after World War II and designed the rockets that put Americans on the moon.

Was there a conspiracy? Who knows? Here's the barracks in San Diego:

Unrelated to Mr. Segol, here's a town in Belgium that had to change it's fountain for the same reason:

Again, I don't question the offensiveness of the symbol. But if we've come to the point that folks have to scour satellite photos to find something offensive, maybe we all need to take a minute to reflect on how far we've come that there's so little left to pick at.