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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
Posted on 08/18/2017 9:00:13 AM PDT by 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 Squares nickname as the Crossroads of the World and are not Confederate Flags.
(Excerpt) Read more at fox5ny.com ...
TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: bluezones; confederateflag; mta; nyc; nyslimes; ochs; purge; revisionism; subway; timessquare; urban
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posted on
08/18/2017 9:00:13 AM PDT
by
Olog-hai
To: Olog-hai
Thought this was The Onion at first.
To: Olog-hai
All nazi symbols should be removed too.
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posted on
08/18/2017 9:03:40 AM PDT
by
boycott
To: Olog-hai
Bringing college campus sensibilities to society at large.
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posted on
08/18/2017 9:03:52 AM PDT
by
headstamp 2
(Ignorance is reparable, stupid is forever)
To: Trump20162020
The NY Post
mentioned this two years ago. Of course, Obama was still in office.
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posted on
08/18/2017 9:04:46 AM PDT
by
Olog-hai
("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
To: Olog-hai
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?
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posted on
08/18/2017 9:06:52 AM PDT
by
SkyDancer
(There Are Three Great Ways To Perfect Landings - Unfortunately We Pilots Don't Know Them.)
To: Olog-hai
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..................
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posted on
08/18/2017 9:07:35 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
To: Olog-hai
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.
To: Olog-hai
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.
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posted on
08/18/2017 9:09:39 AM PDT
by
Mercat
(I know my redeemer lives.)
To: Olog-hai
Odd, they don't look like Confederate flags to me......................
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posted on
08/18/2017 9:09:58 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
To: SkyDancer
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.
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posted on
08/18/2017 9:10:12 AM PDT
by
Scrambler Bob
(Brought to you from Turtle Island, otherwise known as 'So-Called North America')
To: Red Badger
The architect screwed up in writing the procurement specs for the tile. Should have 13 stars.
To: SkyDancer
What, Sarah Silverman the non-comedienne? She got ripped apart on Twitter for that.
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posted on
08/18/2017 9:11:10 AM PDT
by
Olog-hai
("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
To: Olog-hai
The tiles in question.
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posted on
08/18/2017 9:12:23 AM PDT
by
Menehune56
("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC)z)
To: Olog-hai
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.
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posted on
08/18/2017 9:12:58 AM PDT
by
capydick
(“Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.)
To: 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.................. 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.
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posted on
08/18/2017 9:15:37 AM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(The Whig Party died when it fled the great fight of its century. Ditto for the Republicans now.)
To: Olog-hai
US Navy BLDG Coronado CA
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posted on
08/18/2017 9:25:21 AM PDT
by
batterycommander
(I learned my Artillery skills from the United States Marines. USNA 65)
To: Red Badger
This is not silly though. The motivation is sinister and it’s designed to erase us, eventually.
To: Olog-hai
We are now experiencing full out Pogrom ...
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posted on
08/18/2017 9:26:56 AM PDT
by
11th_VA
(Kudos to President Trump for denouncing ALL violence)
To: KarlInOhio
The Maltese Cross................
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posted on
08/18/2017 9:29:54 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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