Store uses NAZI symbols - was unaware it would cause offense!

[Lord Merciless]

1. Asian people usually don't hate Nazis, in fact, many find the Nazis cool.

2. This generates notoriety should some people get offended. => Notoriety creates name recognition.

3. Asians usually don't think that Germans are also pissed at that symbol.

[Ned]

LM, it appears you are correct about the "Asian" attitude about the NAZI's. However, this in itself is shocking and give one cause to be concerned.

[Dr Strangelove]

Did you know that the Germans were the major suppliers of war material to the nationalist Chinese up to 1941? Most nationalist units wore German army helmets throughout the war.

[Ned]

Dr. Strangelove, no, I did not know that the Germans were the major arms supplier of the Nationalist Chinese. It looks like they switched sides when they signed the Axis alliance with the Japanese in 1941. But they appear to have left behind a good deal of goodwill in the Chinese which continues even until today.

Still, Hong Kong as a British colony and someone in the company should've known better.

[Space05us]

when are Germans and Jewish people going to fall off into the ocean?

[notyoueither]

When are you going to eat a bullet?

[Space05us]

When are you going to eat a bullet?

Probably never, they dont taste too good.
Besides it was a joke, how do you know Im not German or Jewish?

Just because one culture likes the way something looks doesnt mean that some other culutre has the right to stumble in and ***** about it.

[notyoueither]

It isn't just Germans and Jews who don't like seeing that **** stirred.

And I don't giva a **** whom of what culture wants to glorify Nazi regalia. Those that do are worthy of a bullet. It's that simple.

[Space05us]

It isn't just Germans and Jews who don't like seeing that **** stirred.

And I don't giva a **** whom of what culture wants to glorify Nazi regalia. Those that do are worthy of a bullet. It's that simple.

Obviously you do give a ****, or else you wouldnt feel so strongly about it.

What is it about Nazi regalia that makes it so bad?

[notyoueither]

You need to ask?

[Space05us]

You need to ask?

please, pretend I dont know what you'll answer.

[notyoueither]

Geez. I'm not sure. I find it hard to find humour in your first offering above.

Wouldn't you figure Germans would have a handle on it?

[Nubclear]

People are scared of Swastikas because they think Hitler will come out and send them off to Auchwitz.

So much emotion over a few symbols

[Space05us]

dammit I have to get offline, what I was going to say [in a nut shell]:

You were going to say something similar to: "They killed millions of innocent people, blah blah"

But Communists have also killed many people, a number greater than those which the nazis killed. Yet there are many people who wear red stars and the sickle and hammer (or whatever it is) yet you dont believe that they should be shot.

you say something similar to: "but thier ideology does not directly support the murder of innocent people"

Nor does nazism, similar to communism nazism (or at least what I understand of it) started out as mainly a social and economic outline. Yet also like communism nazism simply got a bad leader, and if it werent for the fact that nazism was such a new ideology when it happend then you might view it differently.


I had more to say, but I must be off.

side note: I have nothing against German or Jewish people. When I asked when were they going to fall off into the ocean I was merely poking fun at them the same way I did at California because altogether they seem to be what cause the most controversy.

[notyoueither]

Or 50 or 60 million dead. Not all jews, and not all Germans.

Do you need a better reason to despise Nazi regalia?