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'There are SWASTIKAS on the bottom!' Boot brand is forced to recall footwear after customers complai
The Daily Mail ^ | January 10, 2017 | Miranda Bryan

Posted on 01/14/2017 7:25:25 PM PST by EveningStar

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To: Redcitizen

Redcitizen,
As an Oklahoma Choctaw in elementary school in the 50’s and early 60’s, I drew these symbols often. Sometimes with instruction, sometimes without. Choctaws have only a few of our old symbols left to doodle with, but the Southwest tribes seemed to have quite a few, including rain clouds, and the like.

Here in Oklahoma. I know of several old ranches that have the symbol over the entry gate or have it shown in stone on gate pillars or the actual ranch buildings.


61 posted on 01/14/2017 9:18:32 PM PST by oldplayer
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To: Sans-Culotte
Just shows what can happen when you source things overseas. They thought they’d save money, and instead are gonna eat the boots.

East Asians are particularly oblivious to Nazi symbolism. If you trust your product to them, you'd better have good quality control.

http://dangerousminds.net/comments/the_inexplicable_world_of_asian_hitler_chic

62 posted on 01/14/2017 9:23:36 PM PST by cynwoody
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To: The_Media_never_lie

“Isn’t the best possible way to dis the Nazi regime to step all over its symbol?”

Pharoah Ramses II had pictures of Nubians painted on the soles of his sandals so he could tread on his enemies every day.


63 posted on 01/14/2017 9:26:44 PM PST by VanShuyten ("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
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To: cynwoody

When stationed in Japan I visited many of the ancient cities and their shrines and historical buildings. One surprise was finding swastikas as decorative touches on some of the buildings. IRRC, the guide said it represented infinity to them.


64 posted on 01/14/2017 9:40:58 PM PST by Tucker39 (In giving us The Christ, God gave us the ONE thing we desperately NEEDED; a Savior.)
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To: Yaelle

That is not the print left by the shoe on the left. There is nothing on that sole to make that arch above the swastikas, and the angles of the lines of the swastikas are different.


65 posted on 01/14/2017 9:48:06 PM PST by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: EveningStar
Makers of the Polar Fox boot, which is still on sale on Amazon for $38.99

Do they have a hot weather Desert Fox version?

66 posted on 01/14/2017 10:19:47 PM PST by KarlInOhio (a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity - Pres. Eisenhower)
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To: EveningStar

How can the maker not know about the sole design when they worked with designers to create it? (article said they were not aware)


67 posted on 01/14/2017 11:29:19 PM PST by b4me (If Jesus came to set us free, why are so many professed Believers still in chains?)
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To: EveningStar

I’m sure that there are some fellow freeper vets that spent time in Korea. Look at a Korean tourist map, they have swastikas all over them, IIRC, the denote temples. I’m not sure, but think its the same in parts of China. This snowflake shiite has got to stop.


68 posted on 01/15/2017 12:14:06 AM PST by mikefive (RLTW)
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To: oldplayer

If we are looking at logo’s which are on the edge check out Columbia sports wear’s it is a double swastika sometimes used by the Nazis.


69 posted on 01/15/2017 2:36:25 AM PST by urbanpovertylawcenter (the law and poverty collide in an urban setting and sparks fly)
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To: Yaelle

That is hilarious. :)


70 posted on 01/15/2017 2:42:11 AM PST by Lazamataz (TRUMP LIED TO ME!!!! ....He said I'd get sick of winning.... AND I'M NOT SICK OF WINNING YET!!!!)
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To: 11th_VA
Worst part was the shoe strings came tied in little knatizes

You won the internet today. Well done.

71 posted on 01/15/2017 2:42:46 AM PST by Lazamataz (TRUMP LIED TO ME!!!! ....He said I'd get sick of winning.... AND I'M NOT SICK OF WINNING YET!!!!)
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To: RegulatorCountry

Not exactly the most durable one though.


72 posted on 01/15/2017 4:01:30 AM PST by setha (It is past time for the United States to take back what the world took away.)
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To: EveningStar

I ‘swear’ that in the ‘documentary’ “Springtime For Hitler” they said the Swastika was designed because 7 was Hitlers favorite number..

Ya never know who to believe


73 posted on 01/15/2017 4:17:17 AM PST by xrmusn ((6/98)" "If you see a civilian in cammies -- bump into him")
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To: EveningStar
Double L boot tread is probably racist


74 posted on 01/15/2017 4:22:17 AM PST by Daffynition ( "The New PTSD: Post-Trump Stress Disorder" - The MLN didn't make Trump, so they can't break Trump.)
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To: cynwoody

When I was a kid, I was visiting a relative who lived in Syracuse NY, and I remember seeing a building with the forbidden symbol proudly displayed on its facade.

But yes, the boot should be recalled, and replaced by a redesigned version with hammer and sickle patterns on the bottom. It would be an instant hit with the SJW Red Brigades.


75 posted on 01/15/2017 4:26:37 AM PST by Fresh Wind (Hillary: Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass GO. Do not collect 2 billion dollars.)
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To: gaijin

Hindu’s too, I believe.


76 posted on 01/15/2017 5:47:27 AM PST by AFreeBird (BEST. ELECTION. EVER!)
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To: Yaelle
Um this is pretty bad.

And they're going to sell every last pair.

77 posted on 01/15/2017 5:50:41 AM PST by Drew68
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To: Yaelle

Is his Reddit user name seriously “Fresh Fish F**ker”?


78 posted on 01/15/2017 5:53:53 AM PST by Drew68
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To: Yaelle
Oh Goodness!

Oh No!

Is this the company's band?

XD LOLOLOLOL!

79 posted on 01/15/2017 6:27:35 AM PST by KC_Lion ("I'm a believer that you don't need a title, and you don't need an office to make a difference"~S.P.)
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To: gaijin
Part of Satan's hobby of getting humans to redefine good into evil.

I think that's what eventually happened on a grand scale in Europe eventually leading to WWII and then the Cold War.

First Satan planted his seeds of redefinition in Europe, primarily in Germany's fertile ground to eventually raise up Nazis, who then waged war on God's creation, followed by the Soviets who kept it going. (Fatima warnings ignored)

To play Satan's games, our human definitions and understanding of good and bad, right and wrong, moral and immoral, etc. have to first undergo a fundamental transformation away from the definitions of the Father, just like in the beginning in the Garden with the first parents.

Redefining the swastika is one example. We see the same things happening here and now in our time and in our nations. Redefining the Rainbow is another. Same as it ever was...same as it ever was.

As an aside, sometimes the Columbia Sportsware logo reminds me of a swastika. I wonder if that's a coincidence.

80 posted on 01/15/2017 10:14:50 AM PST by GBA (Here in the matrix, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream.)
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