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MGM changing security uniforms after Holocaust imagery complaint
Las Vegas Review Journal ^

Posted on 07/26/2019 11:09:24 AM PDT by matt04

MGM Resorts International will change some of its security uniforms after an Ohio visitor alerted the company that its logo could be offensive to the Jewish community.

The yellow shirts, which have a six-point star on the upper corner, are one of the uniforms used by MGM’s security team, including some employees at Las Vegas properties. June Scharf, who first noticed the logo at an MGM property in Ohio this month, alerted the company that the logo against a yellow background was evocative of Holocaust imagery.

“It’s a real trigger,” Scharf told the Review-Journal. “You see something like that and you stop in your tracks. … It’s something we directly associate with a time, a place and a tragedy.”

Scharf, who lives in the suburbs of Cleveland, noticed the star-shaped logo when she visited MGM Northfield Park to watch a comedy show July 13. The uniforms have been in use a little more than a year, according to MGM spokeswoman Debra DeShong.

“I’m a little surprised I’m the first to notice it,” Scharf said. “I just turned to the people I was with, who happened to be Jewish, and asked, ‘Do you see a problem?’ And they all agreed. Seeing a Jewish star in that context was not right.”

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I imagine many people “are not aware of what a six-pointed star, particularly set against a yellow background, represents historically,” Scharf said. “This type of usage is extremely offensive. … Some people on the MGM staff need to become woke to what their design invokes and triggers among those sensitized to history.”

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“This type of usage is extremely offensive. … Some people on the MGM staff need to become woke to what their design invokes and triggers among those sensitized to history.”

Once you star using the word "woke" and "triggered" in the same sentence it begins to invalidate your complaint, IMHO.

1 posted on 07/26/2019 11:09:24 AM PDT by matt04
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To: matt04

Good grief. I am offended by the perpetually offended.


2 posted on 07/26/2019 11:14:17 AM PDT by bgill
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To: matt04

Yet they will vote overwhelmingly once again for a party that wants them DEAD.

SMH

“Never forget”

Well they did. ANTIFA IS the real new fascist party and I’d love to see a poll about how they about Israel.

The Holocaust should NEVER be forgotten but what good is that if you ignore PRESENT dangers?!?!


3 posted on 07/26/2019 11:15:56 AM PDT by dp0622 (Bad, bad company Till the day I die.)
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To: matt04

Hired security guards should not wear any star. Those imply a sheriff or deputy. Make believe cops are a no-no.


4 posted on 07/26/2019 11:16:36 AM PDT by IndispensableDestiny
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To: matt04
Virtue signaling at its best. This snowflake probably hates Israel, and pulls the lever for Jew hating Dems every November.
 
5 posted on 07/26/2019 11:17:47 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (In Italia i fascisti si dividono in due categorie : i fascisti e gli antifascisti. -- Ennio Flaiano)
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To: bgill

This is nuts. Lots of sheriff’s departments (and police depts) use 6-pointed stars. This has nothing to do with the Holocaust.

I’m offended. I think the person who complained must be anti-Semitic to not want to see something that resembles the Star of David as an emblem of authority.


6 posted on 07/26/2019 11:19:30 AM PDT by Kipp
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To: bgill

The national motto, “In God We Trust,”
needs to be changed to, “You Owe Me an Apology.”


7 posted on 07/26/2019 11:23:19 AM PDT by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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To: bgill

The hexagon in the center is six sides, each side has a triangle attached giving six points.

That's 6 sides, 6 trangles, and 6 points, giving 666.

So is there some "I'm offended" clearing house someone should notify if they're offended by the Antichrist 666 being on the flag of Israel?

8 posted on 07/26/2019 11:30:58 AM PDT by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory !!)
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To: matt04

Noted with interest - but not much.

One complaint is just that - one complaint.


9 posted on 07/26/2019 11:31:28 AM PDT by ASOC (Having humility really means one is rarely humiliated)
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Oh good grief - it’s a sheriffs star.

Even so - the Star of David is STILL a 6 sided star - there’s no offense here except for panty bunched snowflakes.


10 posted on 07/26/2019 11:31:54 AM PDT by Skywise
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To: IndispensableDestiny

That I would agree with.


11 posted on 07/26/2019 11:32:30 AM PDT by Skywise
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To: matt04

So, offended at the synagogue also?


12 posted on 07/26/2019 11:39:57 AM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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I can not make out the picture in the circle - what is it supposed to be? It looks like a bug.


13 posted on 07/26/2019 11:41:12 AM PDT by jackibutterfly (A vote for ANY Democrat, whether it be in a local, st or fed election, is a vote against America.)
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Wow, so most of the sherrifs in this country are anti-semites? Who'd a thunk?


14 posted on 07/26/2019 11:43:35 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte (If it weren't for fake hate crimes, there would be no hate crimes at all.)
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To: Rashputin
OMG, by that standard the atomic structure of ring silicates is"offensive" too. But no mineralogists have ever complained to God about it.


15 posted on 07/26/2019 11:45:53 AM PDT by rfp1234 (NBC: Putting the TURD in Saturday.)
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To: matt04

Please shoot me in the head, to end this pandemic idiocy...(/S) Obviously...


16 posted on 07/26/2019 11:55:41 AM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB0ndRzaz2o)
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To: IndispensableDestiny

What should they wear?

Anyone with eyes can see that the word SECURITY is quite obvious.


17 posted on 07/26/2019 11:56:30 AM PDT by Okeydoker
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To: bgill

Every democrat, black or indifferent is offensive by being


18 posted on 07/26/2019 11:57:49 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12)There were Democrat espionage operations on Republican candidates)
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To: matt04
The star isn't yellow; its tan and mustard. It's the ugly shirt it's on that is screaming bright yellow.

It's a real stretch to link that to the yellow stars the Nazis forced Jews to wear.

19 posted on 07/26/2019 12:13:42 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: matt04

at this point what does it matter?


20 posted on 07/26/2019 12:30:59 PM PDT by Ikeon (Are you going to flap your lips until I die of boredom or are you gonna shoot me?)
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