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.”
How is it possible to “never forget” if you’re not allowed to remember?
Ever wonder why the background of the Nazi flag was Red?
Or sold Che t-shirts.
I had a Hillary loving Soccer Mom pull up behind me at a Red Light and flip me off because she didn’t like my TRUMP 45 Vanity License Plate.
Her Daughter who looked to be about 12 Years Old was sitting in the passenger seat taking a picture of my Plate with her iPhone.
The Woman seemed to be embarrassed when I waved back at her. She sheepishly waved back with her hands on top of the steering wheel. I guess she figured I wasn’t looking in my rear view mirror when she thought she was being cute.
No, why is it red?
+1. There’s a mex guy who works with my son. The subject is the swastika and WWII came up in conversation with some others and this mex guy didn’t know that the swastika had been used by the Nazis. They showed him a picture of Hitler and he had no clue who he was.
According to Hitler, the Red in the Nazi flag represents Socialism, so basically he lifted it from the Communists.
Ah, well that’s perfect for Antifa too ... in spite of their claims to be pure anarchists.
When we were kids, I hung a nazi flag that my grandfather had captured from a pole on the neighbor’s garage. That was supposed to be the enemy fort. I can still hear my mother and the neighbor’s mother come screaming out of the house. They tore it down. Straight to the burner barrel it went.
I agree.
Thanks. Glad we agree on this.
That seems so amazing to me.
We did grow up in a period where movies and popular culture mentioned him, as a very bad character. We also learned about him in our schools.
Native Americans and some Asian cultures also used the swastika.
Perhaps he has seen the Native American one around, and it didn’t mean the same thing to him.
It kind of a good example of how people react differently when they see the same thing.
Not as triggering as the Confederate Navy Jack
Don’t forget Che Guevara. Then she’d be considered really cool.
Who shoots somebody for a $100 pair of sneakers????
I overheard a conversation in which a young, college-educated woman expressed shock upon learning that we nuked Japan in 1945.
"Why would we do that? They're our friends!"
(facepalm)
Since it was the Germans who bombed Pearl Harbor I can understand her confusion.
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