10-08-2003 22:31									#1
	Store uses NAZI symbols - was unaware it would cause offense! Full PM-box? Change here!

You are going to love this.

http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/asiap...e.ap/index.html

The best part was the quote that they did not know that this would cause offense! Really?!!! I doubt it.

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	10-08-2003 22:32									#2
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Dude, they knew too much.

WE KNEW TOO MUCH!

	10-08-2003 22:46									#3
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SS-Runes and the Swastika together with the Reichskriegsadler and they didnīt think it could be offensive for some people

They must have lived in another world if they didnīt know that there are people around, who donīt like those Symbols a bit, espescially in Combination

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	10-08-2003 22:47									#4
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I don't know; no-one got too upset when they nailed that toad to the cross.

	10-08-2003 22:49									#5
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what's wrong with nazi symbols?

	10-08-2003 22:49									#6
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That's pretty funny. We had noooo idea .

	10-08-2003 22:50									#7
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I think that WAS the idea.
:P

	10-08-2003 22:53									#8
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Who cares?

	10-08-2003 23:06									#9
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NOBODY!

	10-08-2003 23:17									#10
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Further on, it notes:

quote: In April, soft drink giant Coca-Cola pulled a promotional robot figurine adorned with what appeared to be Nazi swastikas following criticism from a Jewish leader in Hong Kong.

Have a Coke and a smile... plus a swastika-adorned robot? What the hell is wrong with these people?

	10-08-2003 23:19									#11
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Some people are too stupid to live.

	10-08-2003 23:21									#12
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It is quite a fetching design.

	10-08-2003 23:22									#13
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... waits for someone to make a snide remark as to that British politician that Bods supports...

	10-08-2003 23:24									#14
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It looks like the American eagle thing.

	10-08-2003 23:26									#15
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Yes, eagles tend to look like eagles. Good catch, that observation.

	10-08-2003 23:33									#16
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The guys in this store are dense, but as far as Hong Kong goes, the swastika is not a universally offensive symbol: very popular with Native Americans, Hindus, and other parts of the East.

	10-08-2003 23:34									#17
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Looks like someone needs to go back to advertising school.

	10-08-2003 23:37									#18
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Are high school level courses in the history of western civilization required in Hong Kong?

	10-08-2003 23:42									#19
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I wonder if they will use the rising sun for their next line of clothes.

	10-08-2003 23:47									#20
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quote: Originally posted by JohnT Further on, it notes: quote: In April, soft drink giant Coca-Cola pulled a promotional robot figurine adorned with what appeared to be Nazi swastikas following criticism from a Jewish leader in Hong Kong. Have a Coke and a smile... plus a swastika-adorned robot? What the hell is wrong with these people?

On the other hand, "Nazi Cola Cyborgs" is an excellent name for a band...

	11-08-2003 00:13									#21
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On the subject of odd symbolism: In Grenada, during the short-lived rule of the left-leaning, pro-Castro government (the one that Reagan invaded in 1983) the socialist "New Jewel Party" chose a large solid red dot on a field of white as their as their party symbol. It represented the near-bloodless revolution, there was only one fatality. When Castro visited the island in 1980 they put flags with this symbol on every power pole on the island. it was soooooo bizarre. We were all half-expecting a visit from General Tojo or some other Imperial Japanese leader.

Numerous bus drivers on the island chose another unofficial symbol of rebelliousness, one that could easily be imported from Miami International Airport. Dozens of these bus drivers sported stickers of the good ole Stars and Bars on their vehicles. So strange. You'd have thought the place to be a hotbed of KKK activity.

	11-08-2003 00:17									#22
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[troll] The REAL Nazis are the PC thugs who won't let them keep up perfectly good decorations [/troll]

	11-08-2003 00:31									#23
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I've heard about a similar thing a couple of years ago with japanese teenagers dressing up in SS-uniform-like outfits.

It might not mean that much to the brats at all but if I was walking down a Tokyo steet and bump into a teenager with a SS-symbol I'd probably knock him/her down on the spot.

	11-08-2003 01:04									#24
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quote: Originally posted by GePap The guys in this store are dense, but as far as Hong Kong goes, the swastika is not a universally offensive symbol: very popular with Native Americans, Hindus, and other parts of the East.

The Swastika alone for sure. You can see it also in India a lot. Iīve seen a Documentation about some religious feast there someday, and almost all of the Priests wore hats with the Swastika on it.

But the Combination with the SS-Runes and the Reichskriegsadler (the Wareagle of the Third Reich above the Swastika) of course directly points out that those Decorations are not being meant as some kind of Hinduistic Symbol for Luck and Prosperity, but to be meant to resemble the Symbols or the Third Reich.

	11-08-2003 01:07									#25
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That's why we should pity the Red Men - they didn't have a spiffy flag when the Europeans arrived, and that was the cause of the decline of the Native Americans.

Stupid flagg.

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quote: Originally posted by Giant_Squid [troll] The REAL Nazis are the PC thugs who won't let them keep up perfectly good decorations [/troll]

here! here!

	11-08-2003 01:29									#27
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What business is it of German and Israeli diplomats what a private company in Hong Kong chooses as it's advertising symbol?

	11-08-2003 01:51									#28
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It may not be exactly their business, but those advertising symbols are surely an easy way to piss a lot of people off (not necessarily Germans and Israelis), with no real gain.

	11-08-2003 03:27									#30
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quote: SS-Runes and the Swastika together with the Reichskriegsadler and they didnīt think it could be offensive for some people They must have lived in another world if they didnīt know that there are people around, who donīt like those Symbols a bit, espescially in Combination

There may be people around that would take severe offense, but very few outside of the Western world, where the Nazis never got to in their conquests, and where other ideologies and leaders have been far more prominent.