The vanguard!
Posted on 01/06/2018 12:56:20 PM PST by Simon Green
Shelton shopkeeper Janice Danker said she’s receiving death threats.
The reason?
She accepted an antique German Nazi flag on consignment and hung it near a collection of World War II items in her store.
A few days ago, someone took a photo of the flag at her shop, Games and Needful Things, and posted it on Facebook. Danker said the phone at her antique and secondhand store has been ringing nonstop ever since, and she’s received hundreds of phone calls, emails and social media messages.
Many of the people are angry that a Nazi flag was displayed in and being sold by her shop, saying it’s a symbol of hate.
“They called me a Nazi, racist bigot,” Danker said. “One guy … said he was going to burn my shop down. Another said he was going to come down and put a bullet through my head.”
One Shelton mother said it was upsetting that Danker was getting threats, but she didn’t want to take her children into the shop if the Nazi flag was on display.
“It’s hurtful to people,” Laura, who didn’t want her last name published, told KING-5 News. “You don’t want to walk in and see that. It’s like it hits you in the side of the face.”
Shelton Police detectives contacted Danker after they heard about the threats, but Danker declined to file a formal complaint, said Andy Arnes, a spokesman for the city of Shelton.
Still others have supported of Danker’s choice to sell the Nazi flag. Danker said a World War II veteran told her she should keep it up because a lot of people lost their lives for it.
Another woman told her that her mom lived in Germany during World War II. “She said, ‘People need to not forget, so this never happens again,’ ” Danker said. “She literally begged me to keep this up.”
But it won’t likely stay up. Danker said she was contacted Thursday by someone who wants to pay $375 for it.
She said she plans to continue to carry antique items in her shop, even if they draw criticism.
Over the past 11 years, she said, she’s sold many items that could be found offensive. For example, she’s sold slave shackles that were on consignment. And right now she has a Confederate flag in the shop.
She also has a communion plate.
Danker said she thinks the drama created by the Nazi flag is ridiculous.
“I just think that people need to wake up and realize that these are pieces of history,” Danker said. “And, yes, it was in a bad time of history. But it is part of our history.”
If you saw the flag in a WWII museum, would you throw a fit as well?
You know what else is your friend? Filling out all those boxes JimRob most thoughtfully provided.
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Funny how it’s the people who are trying to bring totalitarianism to the U.S. who are most upset by it. Perhaps they don’t want reminders of that history around that might help people connect the dots!?
Thank you, public school system.
That’s a good point. I think you’re right on the money there.
Well said.
Good.
A little laughter at our age is good, even though we have more to frown about than smile about.
But what the hell, any day my feet touch the floor is cause for a S-E grin, right?
Amazing. My father survived WWII as a fighter pilot, and many of his friends and colleagues were shot down over Germany. He was never triggered by or melted when confronted with Nazi war memorabilia. Sure he didn’t think much of totalitarian, but that his the whole point that these neo-fascists miss.
This would not have happened if she had displayed some Bolshevik-era memorabilia. It would have been considered “cool” or - at worst, “edgy” - by most of the people protesting the Nazi flag.
The vanguard!
Yeah, it wasn't the symbol, the piece of cloth that killed people. It was a government and those who brought it to power and supported it, you know, like these leftist snowflakes and their quasi-fascist overlords here in the US.
Thank you Trisham.
If you saw the flag in a WWII museum, would you throw a fit as well?
How rude.
My grandfather was in a camp. All my great grandparents were murdered. My dad had to be sent out of the country (Germany) when he was 7 to save his life. For me, Nazi gear is personal. I admit it.
When I go to a museum I expect to see things like Nazi flags and worse. I’ve seen the shoes made from Torah parchments, etc.
But an antique shop choosing to display without special comment Nazi memorabilia, I’m out. I’m surprised you blame me.
My pleasure, DoughtyOne.
Hold an auction!
If you offended, you can buy it, then burn it in the parking lot to show us how offended you really are
I hear you and I’m sorry.
They can say they’re not Democrats, but we both know who they vote for.
It’s also true that they hold to the model of modern Democrat norms.
The Democrat party of this day, hands out insults and false charges all the time. And many times, those insults and charges could reasonably and quite accurately be applied to them, not the people they point at.
Here’s a supposed anti-Fascist flag, and it’s wielded by dedicated fascists.
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