Posted on 01/14/2017 7:25:25 PM PST by EveningStar
Full title: 'There are SWASTIKAS on the bottom!' Boot brand is forced to recall footwear after customers complain the soles are covered with inappropriate symbols
The issue emerged after a customer told of his shock after receiving his new boots and shared an image of the underside of his boot - which appeared to feature swastikas - online.
Makers of the Polar Fox boot, which is still on sale on Amazon for $38.99, claim they were unaware of the controversial marking until spotting a post about the symbol, adopted by the Nazis, on Reddit.
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Good-looking boot for $38.99, well, except for the fact that they’re probably made in China, they’re vinyl rather than leather and those, uh, unfortunate tracks that they leave.
Worst part was the shoe strings came tied in little knatizes
I’ll buy them. I want to see a snowflake go off when I show the bottom.
Liberals under the bed, democrat freaks in the girls bathrooms, Commies spying on our mail, the feds tapping our telephones!
Now we got Nazis in our boots!
Doesn’t really look like a swastika until it leaves tracks.
Sorry to stick up for the manufacturer on this one, this is probably a traditional character where the boot was designed. The Nazis adopted it sure, and made it very infamous, but it has other history prior to being adopted by Hitler and the Nazis for their symbol in WWII. I (think) the Nazi version used “S” designs, but it was in Asia for a long time before the Nazis adopted it.
I believe the version here is traditionally “Z”s in design, rather than “S”. If I have that backward, sorry.
I see it occasionally here, don’t even pay attention to it much anymore to tell the truth. I have seen it in various countries in Asia, never associated with Nazis.
Are Jews snowflakes? I'm married to the love of my life who just happens to be a Jew.
The swastika existed in Buddhism for EONS before the Nazis.
Plus the “swastika” has long been a centuries-old symbol of prosperity. Heck, I;ve seen enough KUNG FU / Shaolin movies to know that.
Touche’!
and?
Yes, but in today’s world of groupthink idiocy, logic must fall to the mob.
What’s wrong with National Socialism...?
It was also part of some Native American cultures; the Navajo, I think.
I realize that the swastika symbol predates Nazism by centuries, perhaps millennia. However, its current meaning dwarfs everything in the past.
No kidding. Didn’t Bernie say he was a National Socialist?
Except for the Swastikas those are good looking boots.
The American Indians used the swastika hundreds of years ago. NBD, had I some, I’d keep them as a novelty.
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