Amazon backtracks after covering NYC subway car in Nazi symbols

[Misanthrope]

Is this ok?

 

Yes, yes it is you oversensitive whiners.

[Diederik_Gr]

I have always been interested in what the world would look like if Nazi Germany had won. Wolfenstein gave an interesting look at that, but it never really told much. Wolfenstein is banned in a lot of places though, so I understand why companies don't want to push out stories like this.

[Sauron]

...it's a freaking ad for a fiction. Nobody complained when wolfenstein put a freaking space nazi museum in the middle of london and put a nazi base on the moon.

[suicidalfranco]

Rich went ape ship on that particular subject today. Totally agree

 

murica result to political correctness

http://www.technobuffalo.com/2015/11/23/bravely-second-tomohawk-cowboy/

[Rohith_Kumar_Sp]

Just becasue they promote COD doesn't mean they like terrorism. 

[TheMcSame]

It's almost 2016 and we're still getting all pissy about symbols?

 

We should be labeled Generation Offended, because these days breathing is enough to offend someone...

[Kinda Bottlenecked]

IMO it is controversial

 

Because I heard from my grandparents of how my great uncles were taken away by Japanese soldiers and never to see them again

 

not even their bodies are found

 

And Singapore was under Japan rule and it was a horrible time with all the tortures and ruling.

 

And yet we embrace Japan and its culture  :lol:

[SolarNova]

Covering an American subway, with modified American flag with Nazi connections on it, along with a Japanese modified war flag ...yea that aint gunna get Americans, who are taught from day 1 in life to be highly patriotic, pissed of at all

 

No really, the only way I can see Amazon coming up with this idea and being all like " hey that's a good idea" is if the person who came up with it and authorised it, wasn't American....and was a bit dim.

[dragoon20005]

And yet we embrace Japan and its culture  :lol:

the newer generations of Japanese do know know what their great grandparents have done to asians

 

and what pissed China, Korea and SE Asian countries off is the japanese leader non-apologetic way of addressing the war crimes

 

dont even get me talking about comfort women topic

[Kinda Bottlenecked]

the newer generations of Japanese do know know what their great grandparents have done to asians

 

and what pissed China, Korea and SE Asian countries off is the japanese leader non-apologetic way of addressing the war crimes

 

dont even get me talking about comfort women topic

 

It works both ways, the newer generations of Asians wouldn't know too much about what the Japanese did. They can't feel the effect of it.  

[dragoon20005]

It works both ways, the newer generations of Asians wouldn't know too much about what the Japanese did. They can't feel the effect of it.  

I feel i am one of the affect ones since my grandparents used to talk about how they were treated by the Japanese soldiers

 

They fled from China to Singapore just to avoid them

 

But the Japanese manage to go all the way down to Singapore and took control over the country in less than a week.

 

It then 2-3 years of hell.

[ShadowCaptain]

Oh come on, are people REALLY that easily offended? 

 

I think its really cool

 

Americans are TOO patriotic to the point of it being negative 

[Bsmith]

From a design aspect its actually nicely done..

 

 

People get offended too easily. They need to quit being little bitches.

 

 

Looks like Amazon got people talking about it. Someone in their advertising department is getting a raise

 

 

My thought put together with 3 quote's, got nothing else to say so far.

[Kinda Bottlenecked]

I feel i am one of the affect ones since my grandparents used to talk about how they were treated by the Japanese soldiers

 

They fled from China to Singapore just to avoid them

 

But the Japanese manage to go all the way down to Singapore and took control over the country in less than a week.

 

It then 2-3 years of hell.

 

My grandparents have told me how the war was like too, but I choose to not be affected. That war is not for me to bother. To remember yes, but not so much affected by it. 

[Ohlyver]

From a design aspect its actually nicely done..

And actually I can't find any "Nazi" cross , its only the Reich eagle which in my mind represent something like the bald eagle ( dear bird of the USA )

[soup]

she probably couldn't even state when WWII started and ended.

 

..and you could  ?

 

Pedantic Hint, it didn't end in 1945 .

[Castdeath97]

Agreed. Welcome to pansy ass America.

 

It's not even the actual symbol of the Third Reich. That had the swastika under the eagle to my knowledge, as opposed to the Axis emblem.

 

Sort of off topic, does anyone think the eagle in the Reichsadler looks really cool?

It's a Iron cross it isn't even close to the swastika, a variant of it still (or was can't remember) used as a emblem for the Germany's armed forces .

[Castdeath97]

Indeed. There are/were only a few extraordinary leaders in all of history that could do the things he did with Germany, and with such efficiency, in such a small amount of time (in the grand scheme of things).

 

Then again you could probably argue that given WWI didn't end how it did for Germany, and Hitler didn't live through the experiences he did growing up, he wouldn't have turned into the evil man/incredible leader that he became. Since a lot of his drive was revenge and hatred caused by past events.

As one tweet I read said : "You don't go back in time to kill hitler you go back in time to make the treaty of Versailles (I guess that was its name) less humiliating to Germany"

[ForsakenLive]

It's actually a pretty good idea, in The Man in the High Castle, US is taken over by the axis, that includes the subway. This adds immersion to the possible viewer!

[Bittenfleax]

People get offended too easily. They need to quit being little bitches.

They need a good dose of internet. 

[Fulgrim]

They need a good dose of internet. 

The people that try either become part of the cesspit that is the internet, or become a faggot SJW.

[NumLock21]

Holy crap, if New York was a website. It would be the type of website I avoided like the plague.

I wonder if someday in the future you'll be able to wear Google Glass and pay a contribution per month, and you'll be able to see just trains, buses and chairs without adverts.

Heard it's just on 1 or 2 of them not the entire fleet.

[Me1z]

I think people are over reacting a bit. From what you can see in the photos, it looks like Amazon took very good care not to use any swastikas in the designs. Maybe I'm missing something else, but I can't find anything inherently offensive about the ads. 

[ChrisxIxCross]

Oh come on, are people REALLY that easily offended? 

 

I think its really cool

 

Americans are TOO patriotic to the point of it being negative 

Seriously! And its not like theres swastikas all over the subway car either

[DigitalHermit]

I'd f*cking wear full IJN uniform if they did this here...