Store sells rainbow nazi symbols to create a symbol of love

[Melech 9,900]

"US-based clothing design website Teespring, which sparked outrage on Sunday for selling T-shirts and sweatshirts branded with swastikas as a “symbol of love and peace,” has replaced them with anti-swastika designs.

The original items, created and sold on the site by KA Designs, displayed the large Nazi-associated symbol in rainbow colors with the words “Peace,” “Zen” and “Love.”“Here at KA we explore boundaries. We push them forward,” the company wrote as a description for the products.
“Let’s make the Swastika a symbol of Love and Peace.
Together, we can succeed.”
The new designs, which were added to the site on Monday, look very similar to the KA Designs tees, but each of the swastikas on them is crossed out in red. They do not include a description.
Before being used by the Nazi regime, swastikas were commonly known as an ancient sign used by Hindus and Buddhists carrying positive associations such as auspiciousness and good fortune.
KA Designs is attempting to relate this now negative sign to its origins.
The company even made a promotional video claiming the Nazis “took the swastika, rotated it 45 degrees, and turned it into a symbol of hatred, fear, war, racism, power.”
“They stigmatized the swastika, they won, they limited our freedom, or maybe not?” the video said. “The swastika is coming back.”

In a Facebook post on Sunday, Executive Director of the Israeli-Jewish Congress Arsen Ostrovsky said it was “obscene and disgusting” that Teespring were “seeking to profit of this in the name of art, trying to turn this irredeemable Nazi symbol of hate and murder, into a symbol of ‘love and peace’.”

“This is not only highly naïve, but grossly offensive,” he later told The Jerusalem Post. “What’s next, using ISIS symbol to promote gender equality?” Following the product swap on the site, Ostrovsky said: “Although it is welcome the original obscene swastika designs were withdrawn, the fact the company is still seeking to profiteer from this, albeit amended design, is still unacceptable.”
http://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/US-T-shirt-company-swaps-swastika-designs-with-anti-swastika-items-501785

 

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Their apology is a mess too:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Irrelevant 20,293]

2 minutes ago, Melech said:

 

wha... what

[juju 18,907]

On today's edition of: what the f*ck is wrong with humanity.

This is so embarrassing.

[KleinGa 18,177]

I'm

[sarahb 17,188]

Who the hell approved that or thought it was even remotely a good idea 

[SHOOKGA 2,604]

Rihported

[Seeka 12,372]

Trying to do the impossible. I understand what they're trying to do, but it is literally impossible. The swastika is so embedded with hate, that it can never have positive connatations again.

The Holocaust and Nazis have embedded it with s much hatred and negativity, it's be 500 years from now and we could probably still not give the swastika back its positive meanings.

[Cuchulainn 3,040]

We give symbols too much power. You would still see this symbol in many Asian countries as it relates to Buddhism.

Why exactly aren't we allowed to reclaim this symbol in the west and use it for good? We do that with words and other things all the time in minority communities including LGBT.

[lost in limbo 6,035]

What

[JaneTheC 3,726]

not today hitler 

[benKo 3,362]

I mean... the idea behind it is somehow... good?

But sadly, it will never work. Or maybe in 200 years when humans still exist at this point 

Facebook showed me the german translation and it is even a bigger mess than the original apology. They translate "Leave all the Hate to us" to "Let us all hate each other" 

[littlepotter 76,612]

34 minutes ago, Creativek said:

We give symbols too much power. You would still see this symbol in many Asian countries as it relates to Buddhism.

Why exactly aren't we allowed to reclaim this symbol in the west and use it for good? We do that with words and other things all the time in minority communities including LGBT.

This, I hate how we give symbols all this power. Still am not sure about how they handled this swatiska thing.

[Melech 9,900]

14 minutes ago, littlepotter said:

This, I hate how we give symbols all this power. Still am not sure about how they handled this swatiska thing.

 

49 minutes ago, Creativek said:

We give symbols too much power. You would still see this symbol in many Asian countries as it relates to Buddhism.

Why exactly aren't we allowed to reclaim this symbol in the west and use it for good? We do that with words and other things all the time in minority communities including LGBT.

6 million people died under this symbol though. And there are still people who lived through the hell of that time. It's triggering for the holocaust survivors, and maybe even the whole Jewish community. Maybe the symbol doesn't have much impact, but maybe think of others and have so empathy. It's not even 100 years agp

[Morphine Prince 109,671]

These people are so stupid lmao. 

Probably just a publicity stunt.... it backfired though. 

[Cuchulainn 3,040]

33 minutes ago, Melech said:

 

6 million people died under this symbol though. And there are still people who lived through the hell of that time. It's triggering for the holocaust survivors, and maybe even the whole Jewish community. Maybe the symbol doesn't have much impact, but maybe think of others and have so empathy. It's not even 100 years agp

I can have empathy for what happened and still  think that the symbol can be reclaimed for good. I just don't believe symbols should hold so much power over us that we are afraid to use them when in-fact the symbol is even used to this day in many Asian countries in a totally different context.