Oddly enough, this sort of post has frequented warbirds newsgroups. In
reference to the swastikas on german planes.
It has been pointed out that polish planes used a swastika with a blue tone.
The red army's use of identifying insignia has also been scrutinized.
In any case, several things are obvious:
1 - Swastikas can be offensive to people, in any country.
2 - People can be offended by anything, in any country.
3 - Anyone offended by my post should look at [1] and [2]
Sorry for spelling errors <well, not REALLY sorry>....
Generino
Having attached all available electrodes to any available nipples on
Gervase Markham wrote:
>Noting that there are a large number of people in this forum who object to
>Mozilla's logo on the grounds that it is similar to those used by
>Communists, and they say that this is very offensive.
>
>I would therefore like to ask you all to join my campaign to rid American
>Football, and other sports, of the word "blitz", and terms such as "blitz
>play".
>
>Why? Well, it's very offensive and hurtful to many British people who
>remember how the nasty Nazis bombed our cities during the second world
>war. Because the word has associations with such evil, I believe we should
>not be connecting it with any American sports. (Of course, the American
>and British forces bombing Dresden and other German cities is an entirely
>different matter. We are the Good Guys, after all.)
>
>The "Ban the B Word!" campaign already has backing from major media
>organisations such as The Onion and Satire Central, and the influential
>web steering committee WWW-WTMT - "World Wide Whiners - With Too Much
>Time".
>
>Join us now! mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] to sign up. Rid the planet of
>this offense (no pun intended) to sport and decent society!
>
>Oh, and we've got t-shirts, mugs, buttons and bumper stickers...
>
>Gervase "Red" Markham
>Chairman and Chief Executive, Ban-The-B-Word Merchandising, Inc.
>
