'There are SWASTIKAS on the bottom!' Boot brand is forced to recall footwear after customers complai

The Daily Mail ^ | January 10, 2017 | Miranda Bryan

[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

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A shoe manufacturer has said it will recall one of its boots after customers complained that the sole was decorated with swastikas.

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.

[cba123]

I do not agree.

It is important, sure, especially in the non-Asian countries to represent the Nazi regime.

But there is a solid amount of very valid history in Asia about the symbol, and I do not think that is invalid now, because of what was done by a group which adopted the symbol.

The Nazis acquired the symbol. They did not invent it.

Its meaning long, long predates the German regime.

[dfwgator]

Worst part was the shoe strings came tied in little knatizes

[cynwoody]

I’ll buy them. I want to see a snowflake go off when I show the bottom.

See Arab culture: the insult of the shoe.

[EveningStar]

Please see post #17.

[dfwgator]

I wonder if the term was “Socialist Nationalist” instead, what difference it would have made.

[Redcitizen]

I heard those boots go well with brown shirts.

[Iron Munro]

Looks like their other boot styles have different lug patterns on the soles.

[Redcitizen]

Straight from the source, not the Navajo. I don’t know who would.

[EveningStar]

Please see post #17.

[DesertRhino]

BF Goodrich AT off-road tires leave a little trail of swastikas too.

[meyer]

The only question I would have is ‘what pattern offers the best traction?’.

[cynwoody]

The American Indians used the swastika hundreds of years ago. NBD, had I some, I’d keep them as a novelty.

The Nazi swastika is rotated 45°. The American Indian swastika is unrotated. Its arms are vertical and horizontal. Here is an example:

The Shaffer Hotel
Mountainair, New Mexico

Photographer's note:

On the rural New Mexico highway headed south from Albuquerque a fine 'base-camp' to visit the 3 ruins of the Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument is the small southwestern town of Mountainair. And especially the historical protected Shaffer Hotel seen in this image.

The Shaffer Hotel was constructed in 1923 by Clem 'Pop' Shaffer, experienced blacksmith, merchant, horse trader, land speculator, patriot, and most important - an artist. He preferred concrete over the more popular and cheaper wood construction. His artistic interpretation of pueblo construction and art resulted in this "pueblo deco" style which would become very popular decades later.

Note the symbols on the Hotel's second floor are not swatiskas but Pueblo Native American symbols long before Nazi Germany.

Today the Shaffer Hotel is not only a fine place to dine, but also stay in the historic hotel rooms.

[ccmay]

The Whirling Logs symbol was used as a good luck talisman by the Navajo (Diné) and several other Southwestern tribes. My grandparents collected old Navajo art and artifacts, and I have a rug, a silver necklace, and a basket that include the Whirling Logs, both rightwards and leftwards facing. All of the objects with this symbolism date to before 1940 or so, when the tribe agreed to stop using it due to its Nazi connotations.

[Redcitizen]

No wonder I did not know about it. Before my time.

[exit82]

http://www.trover.com/d/6TGE-downtown-cocoa-cocoa-florida

[exit82]

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Naval+Amphibious+Base+Coronado/@32.676156,-117.157152,297m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x80d9532810e696df:0x8377877a0e4f0033!8m2!3d32.6757813!4d-117.1599036?hl=en

[max americana]

So by your logic, you are acting like a homeboy who keeps bitching about the stars and bars, even though it has a different meaning in the South?

And if you still think I didnt remember your pro-homo marriage posts, think again. Are you really a conservative Freeper or pretending to be one?

[The_Media_never_lie]

Isn’t the best possible way to dis the Nazi regime to step all over its symbol? I am more concerned with the BLM symbolism, because it is relevant today, than the Nazi symbol, that was relevant prior to 1945.

Don’t these people have anything better to do?

[color_tear]

In Buddhism, it is called “WAN” and there is no set rule on how to draw it as far as direction or rotation concern.
It is the symbol of the universe. Buddhists have used this symbol for 3000 years. You see the symbol everywhere in Asia and should have this symbol on every Buddha statue.

Nazi copied this symbol from Buddhism, IMO they wanted NAZI to rule the universe.

Anybody freaks out of the symbol is an ignorant self-righteous idiot.

[DesertRhino]

Yeah, the Navajo and Hopi both indeed used it. Plenty of old weaves incorporated it. And in the Kimo theater in Albuquerque, and in many various other buildings in New Mexico with indian art, dating from the 1920s on back, you’ll find them widely used.