Hannieroo wrote:To walk around displaying nazi symbols as a badge of your beliefs or fashion sense is just distasteful. I'm not sure who I despise more, those who wear it and know or those who just think it's a retro badass symbol. The bigoted or the moronic.
It is, and it's precisely as you suggest an intentionally distasteful affront. [Refer to my earlier posts about how Malcolm McLaren exploited the Sex Pistols, to make millions via precisely this route (Refer further : 'The Rock and Roll Swindle' etc)
But then I suspect some people here, occasionally leaving their 'Hello Kitty' festooned worlds find it cute, funny,
a little risque (whilst not knowing why).
Hannieroo wrote:
As an aside, is it not banned? I am sure it was banned in the UK as an incitement to riot and a breach of the peace. In the same way a tshirt with a racial hate slogan would be.
It's sure as hell legally banned in Germany (surprise). Don't know bout the rest of Europe... most countries have 'freedom of expression'...