Posted on 11/25/2015 7:48:51 AM PST by EveningStar
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) -- A set of controversial subway ads featuring what appear to be Nazi symbols has been removed, following a livid response ...
The ads for "The Man in the High Castle," which are running on the 42nd Street Shuttle or S Train, feature what look like Japanese Rising Sun flags and Nazi imperial eagles. The show, based on the 1962 Philip K. Dick novel of the same title, imagines an alternate history where the Axis powers win World War II ...
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How many shuttle trains were pulled out of circulation to put up these ads - which were on the seats, btw. And probably during rush hour, as well.
I watched the pilot earlier this year. Very well done show. Haven’t watched the recently released season yet.
Swastikas just don’t give a good vibe regardless of their context. I have a copy of William Shirer’s book about the Third Reich and the swastika on the cover gives pause to whoever sees the book on the shelf.
I also watched the pilot but not the recent shows. I’ll have to catch up on that - maybe on Thanksgiving!
They did this when V first premiered and it was a brilliant campaign.
We’ve been watching it.....
...hard hitting!
A couple somewhat salacious ( which I don’t like)......scenes, very small scenes
Overall, it makes you think!..... and hope this never happens.....but with our present administration....????
Really well written.
A press release from Subway apologized for the advertisements, and explained that they were merely trying to devise a campaign to make their previous use of child-molesting spokesman Jared Fogle look attractive by comparison.
I’m sorry. I can’t buy into this PC crap. If we can’t acknowledge our history or any ramification of it, we are indeed a dying civilization.
Funded by Soros and carried out by the Occutards, of course.
Which is pretty amazing when you consider the exact same symbol was used by American Indians and other indigenous peoples for thousands of years. It’s a good luck symbol. I visited an old Anasazi ruin in Canyon de Chelly that has a huge swastika carved in the cliff above the dwelling. Been there since around 1200 AD.
There were no swastikas. The ad featured a Nazi-style German eagle clutching not a swastika, but an iron cross.
It was a stupid ad nevertheless. Normally I'd tell a person offended by the ad to just not look at the ad. But that stupid thing was plastered on the subway seats.
Hmmm...on second thought, I'd still tell a person offended by the ad to just not look at the ad.
Oh, silly me! I thought these ads were a tie-in for Subway Restaurants, instead of ads on the NY Subway.
Just goes to show that you should always read the article before getting all snarky...
Of course, if everybody did that, the Internet would grind to a halt!
We have become a nation of the offended. The mayor used his office to remove the ads just like a Nazi. What is offensive is not the ads for a fictional show, but the real actions of a fascist government that seeks control over commercial speech and ideas. That is the controversy, not posters with Nazi symbols, but mayor posers with Nazi methods.
Hey NYC , you godless cesspool of corruption and greed, you elected your fuhrer, you get to live under his thumb! Hiel de Blasio and the liberal Reich!
Ok, so we can’t have ads with fake Nazis, because real Nazis were bad...but we can import actual living breathing muslims who want to do exactly what the real nazis did...
It’s a brilliant ad. Largely because it’s now generated national headlines. Originally they spent a couple grand to advertise to New Yorkers, now they’re advertising to the whole country for free.
Good point. Tactically, it's stupid and insensitive. But strategically, you're right, it's brilliant.
I had the same book and completely understand. Removing the dust cover didn't help because it was on the spine too. Turning it around only brought more attention to it. My wife eventually insisted on it being removed from the library as she was afraid people would think we were Nazis.
It's a shame because a lot of lessons were learned during WW2 that we are repeating today (such as appeasing the Muslims who are proving to be even worse than Nazis).
Appeasement always leads to war. Always.
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