“After the initial shock — horror — I asked the woman behind the counter, ‘Is Shell actually selling swastika face masks?’” Wagner told Local 10 News.
“And she outright said yes. Her response to me was, ’Whatever. We sell what it is that they give us to sell.’”
I find lots of things offensive. It doesn't mean I cry the blues and run home to mommy or whatever. If I started listing the things I find offense I'd probably use up all the memory on my computer.
ReplyDeleteNot having more memory being on of them.
DeleteI think that a swastika mask is fine . is the wearer a NAZI ? Or (more likely) is the wearer making a statement about mandates ? First amendment baby ! If I have to wear a mask that makes Me uncomfortable ,, I want you to be uncomfortable too sort of thinking.
ReplyDeleteThis. It is like when there would be Nazi symbols at the protests against the lock downs and other restrictions....the media instead of rightfully reporting them as symbols being used to represent the people and Gov being protested against, used them as meaning the protestors were supporting those symbols.
DeleteEverything is so fucking dramatic these days. Can't go on with life without reacting... It's like a fucking British comedy show. "Had to sit and take a deep breath..." "Shock" "Horror". WTF, I don't think this cunt knows what horror really is. Seriously, nothing better to do than to call the news and try to make herself out a righteous, virtue-signalling celebrity over it? Fucking child.
ReplyDeleteOtherwise, great story.
Ed
"Oi, vey, I saw dat maysk and my aysma flared up like a bomb! A bomb with a big red line drawn on it! It's anudda holercaust!"
ReplyDeleteSome idiots react to that as if it was Satan's manifesto. Sheesh. Ohio Guy
ReplyDeleteI try not to purposely offend anyone and try not to be offended. Might have to shoot em. Stay off the ridge-line, Semper Fi.
ReplyDeleteYou and I are completely different creatures Hagar. I try, and even go out of my way, to be offensive. Mostly to point out how soft and sensitive current society has become. I've got an entire collection of T-shirts I love to wear in public but can only do so when not accompanied by my wife. She has thick skin but gets tired of the verbal altercations I get into with people over my shirts. Most are politically based, but they basically skewer liberal right where it hurts. Their feelings. I love it.
Delete“What we have in the United State is a lack of understanding and knowledge of what Nazism stood for and of the symbols used by the Nazis.”
ReplyDeletePublic education is too busy with socialist studies, explaining to kids that someone promising lots of free goodies is a hero.
High probability it's another hoax.
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When masks were still a thing back last year, I decided that if I had to wear a mask, I would make it a damned offensive or frightening one. At various times I wore a bloody skull mask gaiter, and my favorite one to arouse ire, my TRUMP mask that I received in the mail after making a donation to his campaign. I got a lot of odd looks, but east Tennessee is a heavily armed area, even before the Constitutional Carry law went into effect, so no one confronted me over them.
ReplyDelete“What we have in the United State is a lack of understanding and knowledge of what Nazism stood for and of the symbols used by the Nazis.”
ReplyDeleteIs the good rabbi fucking kidding? It's one of the pillars of public school education. We learn about Nazis, The Holocaust, Anne Frank every year for many years. Okay, that's fine. Nazis were bad people and the Holocaust was a terrible thing. Fair enough. BUT, we don't learn about the Holodomor (4 to 12 million deliberately starved by the Soviets under the direction of V Molotov and Lazar Kaganovich) is a common range of estimates. We don't learn about how many people (apart from the Holodomor) were murdered internally by the Soviets. We sure don't learn about the ethnicities of the first Politburo members, nor of Kaganovich. We don't learn Trotsky's real name. We don't learn about the torture and illegal medical experimentation on Chinese civilians by the Japanese in WWII (Unit 731, a person could look it up). We don't learn about Korean slavery and sex slavery ("Comfort women", a person could look it up) by the Japanese. Fuck, we learn more about Anne Frank (one person, however innocent) than we learn about Bataan or the other atrocities committed against *thousands* of American servicemen by the Japanese. We don't learn that, unlike Nuremberg, the Japanese in charge of their many many atrocities were never punished by the Allies. Indeed, many rose to post-war power in the Diet (Japanese parliament).
Why don't we learn about the horrors committed by the Reds in the Soviet Union, or the crimes of the Imperial Japanese? I don't know. A cynical person might say "competing narratives of victimhood cannot be allowed". Indeed, even the Wikipedia entry on Holodomor cites certain "scholars" saying exactly that. But maybe those particular scholars are just mean-spirited cranks. I wouldn't know that either.
But I do know that learn all about Nazis in the USA.
Once I saw rabbi in the write up, there was no need to read any further to know what the woh is me crap coming next
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Unit 731 was horrendous. Bio and chemical experiments and many more. A doc wanted a fetus one day. Fresh of course. They walked up to a pregnant women, slit her open, ripped out the fetus and left her laying to die. Unit 731 was swept under the rug big time. All we hear is bad ol Americans dropped two big fuckin bombs on the aggressor and ended a war. I'm all for ending wars.
DeleteI use to host college age foreign exchange students. Most students were asian; Japanese, Korean, Chinese. On more than one occasion I had to finally step in to break up a fight between a Korean and a Japanese. You know why, it was over the 'comfort women'. The schools in Japan gloss right over that subject while the schools in Korea delve into it with undying ferocity.
DeleteThen there were the arguments between the Chinese and everyone else.
It is a terrible thing to realize that everything you know is false.
If it is mentioned at all in Japan, the official line is that all the Korean women were *volunteers*. "Dear Imperial Japan. I volunteer to be literally chained to a cot in a military brothel and serially raped by dozens of enemy soldiers each day. It will be extra nice to know that those enemy soldiers consider me subhuman and will treat me extra brutally. Sincerely yours, Random Korean Woman."
DeleteIn northern China (Manchuria) Japanese soldiers would randomly kill civilians on the street for amusement. Rape was always a popular atrocity as well. Throughout China and Korea the Japs are still called "the dwarf rapists". (Because they were short on average; they did not specialize in raping midgets.... Sorry, Ken.) Anyway, killing for sport was well documented (in the Japanese press of the time; this was NOT anti-Japanese propaganda). A very popular series was about a sword contest in which two soldiers had a competition over how many Chinese (just random civilian people grabbed on the street, not even POWs, much less special cases like spies.) each could decapitate. Each man had a headcount (pun unintended) of over 100 killed before the contest ended. Just one example, not a total body count, of course.
The Japanese traditionally have considered non-Japs subhuman. But the Han Chinese consider non-Han subhuman to various degrees as well. The Koreans fucking hate both the Chinese and the Japanese (as you well know, Rick!), which is understandable since both have shit on Korea forever. Now traditional Jap belief (which few seem to take seriously these days) is that their Imperial line is descended from the Sun Goddess Amaterasu, but to my knowledge no East Asian people claim to be special to God (or G-d) *as a people*.
Anyway, the point is that lots of different kinds of people suffered horribly during WWII and its aftermath, at the hands of different tormentors. No one ethnic group has a monopoly on suffering, and no one's suffering is somehow more important than that of others. (Unless you have some toxic belief that only your people are real human beings in the eyes of G-d. But who would believe stuff like that?) And I really don't see the point of eternally punishing any group for terrible things done by *some* of their ancestors. It is immoral to do so, and by any reasonable standard of law also illegal. It is also destructive to the people slavering for the punishment, as it fills their psyches with hate and paranoia. But I'm no pshrink or jurist, much less a theologian, so what do I know?
"It is a terrible thing to realize that everything you know is false."
Truer words were never spoke. You know, I don't even so much blame the people who have deceived us because of their own agendas, as the people who should have been looking out for their own folk, but instead allowed them to be deceived.
Separate rant on the swastika specifically.
ReplyDeleteThe swastika is a holy symbol across multiple cultures, including Aryan (which is why Hitler used it, it's not like he made it up) and Buddhist. Buddhists are pretty much the opposite of Nazis in any normal human being's book. It is very wrong to make the holy symbol of one of the world's major religions illegal, FFS. (Anyone who is going to jump in here with "Um, akshully Buddhism is more like a philosophy" is a nit-picking pedantic asshole.)
Swastikas (pointing in both the "Nazi" direction and the other direction, the latter sometimes called the "suwastika") have been found in burial sites across all of Europe, Asia, and the Indian subcontinent for thousands of years.
In Japan the "anti-Nazi direction" swastika is called the "manji" and is used among other things to denote the location of temples on maps, just like we might use the cross to denote churches. It has ZERO Nazi connotation. It is not meant to intimidate Jews. (And why should it? It's NOT the Nazi swastika, it's the manji which is a different symbol altogether. Okay, maybe a dyslexic paranoid might be frightened by it, but that's really reaching.) But sure enough, some busybody assholes (who are not Japanese, naturally) have taken it upon themselves to demand that the Japs stop this practice *in Japan which is THEIR own fucking country* because it is "offensive". Fuck off, busybodies.
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Okay, the gas station masks in the photo are clearly Nazi symbols. Pretty clearly deliberately provocative, and in rather bad taste. But lots of things are. An actual free society can deal with offensive speech and symbols. As has been said, the answer to offensive speech is more speech, i.e. counter-speech. Only tyrants seek to and need to ban ideas. Honest tyranny is bad enough, but tyranny masquerading as *victimhood* is really offensive. Fuck off, tyrants.
I know exactly what the swastika meant to the Nazis. I also know it has been around long before the Nazis or Germany for that matter. So two crooked lines have to be banned because some find it offensive? Yer shitting me right? I have no desire to be like the left in any fashion. I don't want American hx tore down because it's offensive. Suck it ta fuck up. It's two crooked lines that some asshole used and he's dead. Pretty soon they will want to ban crosses. I aint religious but a cross does not bother me one damn bit. Oh, maybe it's cuz it's two straight lines instead of crooked eh? Gimme a fuckin break.
ReplyDeleteI liked Gun Free Zone's QR code, which, when read, translated to "go f*ck yourself". (link:https://gunfreezone.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/GFZ-COVID-Passport-1.jpg)
ReplyDelete"We sell whatever THEY give us the right to sell". That is a Nazi or a dimocrat saying that. National Socialist either way.
ReplyDeleteI am certainly one of the most anti-Nazi people in America, having read a book detailing the medical experiments of the Nazi's during WWII in one of the concentration camps, at Buchenwald. And I am a strong supporter of Israel and the Jewish people until today.
ReplyDeleteHowever, while I find the Nazi symbol of the swastika and what it represents to be abhorrent, in this case I can see the utility of it. Like many Americans, I am distressed to have the federal government and the state governments tell me that I MUST wear a mask, in any areas, for no other reason than a political one. And so, I can see how wearing such a mask as this, with the swastika as a symbol of governmental overreach and intrusion on civil liberties. And so this mask could be seen not as someone wearing it being a supporter of the Nazi ideology, but rather as someone wearing it in protest of a government gone wild, acting just like the Nazi party of the late 1930's and the 1940's, attempting to force their citizens into subservience to the almighty state.
Ultimately, I think that to me, the downside of this mask outweighs the positives of the symbolism of it, especially due to the incredible anti Semitism prevalent now, both here in America and abroad, and I don't support anyone wearing or promoting it, in sign form or other methods. That of course is just me, and I don't want to force my feelings onto others. I just think that there are other ways to show your hatred of governmental oppression. With the horrible things that Nazi Germany did to so many people during their days in the sun, anything that refocuses people's view of them into todays people's minds is a bad thing. As another person mentioned, many other nations, and leaders, have much to answer for, also. From chairman Mao, to the Turks and the Armenian genocide, to Stalin and Lenin, Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge, the Japanese and both the Bataan death march, and the Borneo death march, which while having only some 2500 Allied prisoners, resulted in the death of every single one of them, save 6, who escaped into the jungle. While America had their share of prisoners killed by our soldiers, they were nothing compared to those of these and other nations, who did so on a routine basis.
I must also say that as Americans, we have to both get a much thicker skin, and remember that people are entitled to voice their own opinions, remembering that if we desire freedom, we must also allow others to be free. Until everyone is free, then no one is truly free.
It was on a video on a channel hosted by an air museum. An ignorant black girl came on to vehemently protest why their are 'notsi' symbols on the aircraft.
ReplyDeleteEven after it was explained that this is a museum and museums must present their artifacts as accurate, she continued to rant. Then, to no surprise, she said she would never set foot in that museum. As if that means anything of consequence.
History is lost if it should become watered down to be less offensive to some person who would always find offense no matter where.
I like how they have a map at the bottom of the article to try and dox the store. I wonder if they're hoping a left-wing nut will go shoot the place up so that they can add gun violence to the mix.
ReplyDeleteI think it was a comment on requiring masks to be worn. It says, "OK, I'll wear your stupid mask. Here it is." Florida's not the place, though, because of a lack of mandates. And, Southeast Florida isn't the place due to demographics.
ReplyDeletethe Shell station’s manager Mohammad Hossin said he had no idea what it meant. Yeah, right!
ReplyDeleteMy thoughts exactly
Deletekaren, go scold a manager.
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