Super sensitivity or what ?

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Thu Aug 28, 2014 3:05 am

Clothes retailer Zara has removed a child's T-shirt from its stores following complaints it resembled attire worn by Jewish people during the Holocaust.

You have to ask if the intention was to offend or is it only coincidental, and does it matter ?

FourPart · Post by **FourPart** » Thu Aug 28, 2014 9:17 am

Even if it's intentional (which it probably is, having seen it), rather than being viewed as anti-semite, I would interpret it in totally the opposite way, as a tribute to the millions who were massacred.

High Threshold · Post by **High Threshold** » Fri Aug 29, 2014 8:32 am

Well, it isn't a "pointed" star and the stripes run horizontally. However the star is yellow and the stripes are black and white. Furthermore, a "sheriff's star" isn't normally worn with "prisoner's" stripes. I'd say it was a bad idea to begin with.

But does no-one remember Benetton's advert campaign?

High Threshold · Post by **High Threshold** » Fri Aug 29, 2014 8:34 am

FourPart;1463044 wrote: ....... rather than being viewed as anti-semite, I would interpret it in totally the opposite way, as a tribute to the millions who were massacred.

Expressing that "tribute" in children's clothes is a good way to do that? I don't think so.

FourPart · Post by **FourPart** » Fri Aug 29, 2014 8:58 am

I couldn't help being reminded of that episode of M*A*S*H, where Trapper had provided the material to have a pinstripe suit made up by a local Korean tailor - only to find the finished article had been made with the stripes going horizontally.

High Threshold · Post by **High Threshold** » Fri Aug 29, 2014 8:58 am

On the other hand just how much consideration ought one give? Buddhism was established long before the Nazis came onto the scene:

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FourPart · Post by **FourPart** » Fri Aug 29, 2014 10:45 am

High Threshold;1463113 wrote: On the other hand just how much consideration ought one give? Buddhism was established long before the Nazis came onto the scene:
The same with Hindus, who use the same symbol.

High Threshold · Post by **High Threshold** » Fri Aug 29, 2014 10:59 am

FourPart;1463124 wrote: The same with Hindus, who use the same symbol.

It's interesting that displaying the swastika is illegal in many places in the west, but I wonder how it applies to Hindus and Buddhists here?

tude dog · Post by **tude dog** » Fri Aug 29, 2014 1:11 pm

A number of years ago driving home from work I noticed the decorative plaque on a gate which had a swastika. Next day made sure to pay close attention and realized it was the entrance to a Buddhist temple. I found it interesting and after a while I noticed it vandalized and the whole plaque later removed.

Whenever I had reason to be in Glendale, CA I would amuse myself checking out these.

Glendale’s Odd Lamppost Swastikas

High Threshold · Post by **High Threshold** » Fri Aug 29, 2014 8:25 pm

tude dog;1463131 wrote: A number of years ago driving home from work I noticed the decorative plaque on a gate which had a swastika. Next day made sure to pay close attention and realized it was the entrance to a Buddhist temple. I found it interesting and after a while I noticed it vandalized and the whole plaque later removed.

Whenever I had reason to be in Glendale, CA I would amuse myself checking out these.

Glendale’s Odd Lamppost Swastikas

Now that's what can be called, "Super sensitivity or what?"

It's only a matter of time before these COMMUNIST symbols are outlawed in the United States and once the U.S. gets a fly up its bum the COMMUNIST nation of New Zealand will need to batten down the hatches and prepare for an American invasion:

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