"Hey wait a minute...I've got an idea!"
Posted on 08/07/2017 2:26:08 PM PDT by Ennis85
A US clothing company has come under fire after T-shirts appeared online featuring swastikas in a move aimed at reclaiming the symbol as one of "love". The attempt to rebrand the Nazi emblem as a symbol of "peace" was criticised on social media as the public refused to support the campaign. Days after the design appeared, it was replaced with an "anti-swastika" print. The swastika is an ancient symbol said to have represented good fortune in almost every culture in the world. It was adopted by Adolf Hitler, thousands of years after it was first used, transforming it into a symbol of hate associated with the Third Reich. As a fashion symbol, it was likely to prove difficult to persuade the public to get behind this clothing company's vision in working to change these perceptions.
But does this latest backlash prove that there is a line that should not be crossed - even in the publicity hungry world marketing? Or does the fact that the campaign has made the news make it a success?
What were they thinking? It is hard to tell. In an interview with Dazed and Confused magazine published on Sunday, the company behind the campaign, KA Designs, said that they hoped to "share the beauty of this symbol detached from the hatred associated with it".
The company said that none of its staff had experience in the fashion industry and that the design was "nothing new". It added that it "wouldn't care" if the products were purchased by "some kind of neo-Nazi" because the message was that "peace, love and freedom win over hatred, war and prejudice".
"The swastika is coming back, together with peace, together with love, together with respect, together with Freedom,"
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
About 25 years ago I visited a friend who had just moved into an apartment building in an old section of Pittsburgh. The building probably dated from the early 1900s.
When I went inside I couldn’t help but gasp a little to see that the floor in the entry way was done in swastika tile. It didn’t just appear that way—the design was deliberate. Even though he was a big lib, we both got a good laugh out of it. I wish I had taken a picture.
When the building was built, of course, the symbol didn’t have that connotation. But I’m sure they’ve replaced the floor since.
And the “ghey” rainbow only has six colors. Six...the number of a man.
The real rainbow, God’s Symbol of His Covenant with Noah, has 7 visible colors. Seven is the number of Divine perfection and Completion. Whoever designed the “ghey” flag may not have been aware of that, but God was!
Dazed and Confused magazine?
Obviously I have no problem with the traditional Buddhist/Hindu use of this symbol but in Europe particularly and in the America today it yet has the connotation of symbolizing a very bloody brand of excessive nationalism and racism which hasn’t yet gone away completely. The T-shirt company can’t be ignorant of the fact. I have no sympathy.
They better watch out. BNSF railroad might sue them for infringement. And be sure to burn Swastika coal in your locomotives. http://digging-history.com/2014/10/22/ghost-town-wednesday-swastika-new-mexico/
Not to be confused with Swastika, Ontario, Canada. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika_railway_station
Maybe they should just try to bring back the Charlie Chaplin mustache instead.
"Hey wait a minute...I've got an idea!"
It is present in a lot of Northern European artifacts as well, from the Bronze Age through the Dark Age. It is a primordial sun symbol.
It’s going to be another couple of generations before the swastika’s true meaning is “rediscovered”, but is will be reclaimed, just as the rainbow will be reclaimed.
It is also on some soviet money from 1919. Look behind the double headed eagle, there is is.
Or, we're going to try to pick up a turd by the clean end.
They are either liberals or trying to prove to liberals that the concept of love winning over hatred is not always the case. My guess is they are liberals though.
I'm guessing this was made for the Nazi homosexual agenda. Surprised they didn't jump on it with the pretty rainbow.
Back around 1980, there were two houses on SE Division Street in Portland OR that had swastikas built into their chimneys in contrasting colored bricks. The houses were probably built in the 20s or 30s. I haven’t been back to that town in a long time, but sometimes I wonder if the chimneys are still there. SE Division, near 24th or thereabouts, one on each side of the street, if anyone cares to look. I still have photos of both.
I did not know there was a unicode symbol for 卐 or 卍. Thanks.
Homosexuals would love these tshirts.
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