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.
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.
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.
Yes and just think of the flutters given your intimates by the coarse and distasteful images of Dick!
” I have a copy of William Shirer’s book about the Third Reich”
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Oh,the memories.
I read that book the summer and fall of 1961 while waiting for my first child to be born.
Tempus fugit !!!!!!!!
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