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Post by Deleted on Jun 22, 2020 16:45:14 GMT -5
I'll give him the benefit of the doubt on this one. At worst, I think he may have just been ignorant of the history behind the design.
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Post by Slammy Award-Winning Cannibal on Jun 22, 2020 18:40:24 GMT -5
Personally I think this is funny because there are enough actual bad things happening daily and yet putting something obscure/trivial under a microscope trying to find a bad link is apparently more productive. I’ll never understand it.
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Post by Starshine on Jun 22, 2020 19:12:45 GMT -5
I'm, willing to give him benefit of doubt that it's probably a combination of a biker culture thing, Taker not being all that boned up on his WW2 history at the time, and/or not having the sensibilities to identify the problem. Kind of also like how Trips used the Iron Cross symbol for as long as he did. Here's an article discussing stuff about biker cutlure, and an aditional excerpt from it: www.vox.com/2015/5/19/8625981/outlaw-motorcycle-gangs-biker"There is also a long history of white nationalism in biking, both in explicitly white supremacist or neo-Nazi bike clubs and among members of more mainstream clubs. In 2008, for example, the Outlaws hosted a St. Patrick's Day event in Florida sponsored by the white supremacist groups Confederate Hammerskins and Blood & Honour America. Hells Angels members have, on at least some occasions, collaborated with the Aryan Brotherhood. It's not uncommon for biker gang members to have tattoos of the dual lightning bolt logo of the Nazi SS, but the Anti-Defamation League notes this is as often for shock value as for anything else."So, still not a good thing. But you'll have to make your own conclusions on how much you take away from this photo.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Jun 22, 2020 19:40:27 GMT -5
The logo is not exactly the same but it's close enough that the motorcycle club that made the shirt absolutely knew what they were doing.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Jun 22, 2020 21:10:36 GMT -5
I've been dreading the point this reaches our board because I'm not sure how to handle it without pissing a LOT of people off and potentially breaking our own rules.
That said, between this shirt, UT's penchant for wearing Blue Lives shirts in recent times and him being a hunting buddy of convicted war criminal Eddie Gallagher, I can only allow you to connect your own dots on it. With that said, I'm locking this one down for now because it's an issue we need to deal with at another time. Soon, but another time. Thank you for understanding.
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