Confederate flag 'looking' tiles to be changed in subway [NYC: honoring NY Slimes owner Ochs]

WNYW, Fox 5, NYC ^ | Aug 18 2017 11:32AM EDT

[Olog-hai]

The MTA says it is going to “modify” tiles in a Manhattan subway station that people have complained look like Confederate Flags.

The pattern of tiles have been in the Times Square station for almost 100 years. The architects are said to have installed them to pay homage to the Southern roots of former New York Times newspaper head Adolph S. Ochs.

The MTA has claimed the tiles actually are meant to honor Times Square’s nickname as the “Crossroads of the World” and are not Confederate Flags. …

[Trump20162020]

Thought this was The Onion at first.

[boycott]

All nazi symbols should be removed too.

[headstamp 2]

Bringing college campus sensibilities to society at large.

[Olog-hai]

The NY Post mentioned this two years ago. Of course, Obama was still in office.

[SkyDancer]

Remember a few months ago when this female snowflake flipped out because the paint markers the utilities people put down looked like the Nazi symbol to her?

[Red Badger]

SMH, This has gotten as silly as Germany banning Kiss from using their logo because part of it looked like the SS logo from Nazi era Germany..................

[Trump20162020]

Notice the date of that: June 2015.

Right in the midst of the media's previous hysteria over the Confederate flag after the Roof church shooting in South Carolina.

[Mercat]

The oldest Catholic Church in Topeka Kansas has thesybol which for hundreds of years was accepted as sacred. It’s part of the stone work. The Nazis flipped it and called it a swaztica Waiting for theoutrage.

[Red Badger]

Odd, they don't look like Confederate flags to me......................

[Scrambler Bob]

If you look at a map of the streets in most cities, you will see ‘hidden’ swastikas.

Right angles and crossing lines. The swastika has been hidden in there.

Better bulldoze, or maybe nuke, all cities.

[FirstFlaBn]

The architect screwed up in writing the procurement specs for the tile. Should have 13 stars.

[Olog-hai]

What, Sarah Silverman the non-comedienne? She got ripped apart on Twitter for that.

[Menehune56]

The tiles in question.

[capydick]

These snowflakes will remain triggered forever and there will no end to this madness. I've been at this station and I have to tell you I never thought of the Stars and Bars when I've seen this but yes, thought it was about where the subways come together or, crossed hockey sticks at worse.

[KarlInOhio]

SMH, This has gotten as silly as Germany banning Kiss from using their logo because part of it looked like the SS logo from Nazi era Germany..................

One of my hobbies is wargaming. Games publishers have some horror stories about their products being destroyed by the Germans if they have any swastikas or SS runes on them, even a little tiny one on a ship or airplane marker.

Some, if they want to ship to Germany, have ahistorically used the German cross instead.

[batterycommander]

US Navy BLDG Coronado CA

[snarkytart]

This is not silly though. The motivation is sinister and it’s designed to erase us, eventually.

[11th_VA]

We are now experiencing full out Pogrom ...

[Red Badger]

The Maltese Cross................