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Posted by: saltyveruca 2 years, 6 months ago24 weeks after Walmart agreed to remove shirts bearing Nazi iconography from its shelves, and 15 weeks after getting a letter from Congress demanding the shirts removal, they're still there.
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raptor78
May 23, 2007, 5:18 a.m.That figures. Walmart is a fascist store anyway. I wouldn't buy anything from them if they were the last store in the world. They come in to small towns and dump those big box stores down in the middle of what used to be quiet communities. That attracts gang bangers and other criminals. Walmart sucks.
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KingOfTruth
May 23, 2007, 6:18 a.m.Actually the picture shows someone putting the swastika into a trash bin......isn't that where it belongs?
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Ecotec
May 23, 2007, 11:08 a.m.Please explain to me how wal-mart attracts gang bangers and criminals raptor78? I don't think they say, "Hey this town has a new wal-mart let move there and make trouble" If you are having probelms with gangbangers then they must have already been in your city. Also i have yet to see any stores in mytown go under and countless jobs were created, more are comming as our store is upgrading to a super store. In some case they are more expensive and some items are cheaply made, but save 1 or 2 items i have never had any probelms with them.
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RoyHobbs
May 23, 2007, 11:32 a.m.Avoid Wal-Mart at all costs, they come in and destroy every small business in town and before you know it they have a monopoly on it.
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djrevelky
May 23, 2007, 12:48 p.m.Just a question:
Why is it so wrong to display any symbol that was ever used by Nazi's but it is perfectly fine to sell clothing with pictures of Che and Castro?
This is a bit of a double standard to me.
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ax2usn
May 23, 2007, 2:19 p.m.That sound you hear? It's Sam Walton spinnin' in his grave; once a champion of the underdog, his heirs are polar opposites. As example:
1. Last year, Walmart convinced our local politicos to condemn a family farm in order to build a new store; the big selling point: tax revenue for the city. Family sued, but lost property passed down for generations. Happens in almost every state.
2. Paige Laurie, granddaughter of one of the founders, was busted for cheating at USC. She paid another student $20k to do her work.
3. Paige's parents donated $$$$ to U of M for a new sports arena, then insisted it be named after their cheatin' daughter, who never attended the school!
4. Hurt on the job at Walmart? Forget workers comp. Worse, you might be locked in while working after store hours. Emergency? Sorry 'bout that!
5. The low prices come at heavy cost to vendors wanting to do business with the store. Worse, local businesses cannot compete on a level field.
Bad Walmart! BAD!
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Egodeus
May 23, 2007, 2:26 p.m.I'm not certain of this but I think the Buddhist swastika has its arms pointing the other direction, and means good things, the Nazis took it and reversed the arms making it mean the opposite.
Anyway my granddad was in WW2 and helped liberate the camps he still believed that even tho he absolutely hates what some people say they have a right to say it here or else were no better then the Germans.
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GBM636
May 23, 2007, 2:49 p.m.First off , I am not for any thing Nazi. But I can not help thinking about the freedoms of the countries that fought the Nazis they fought them because we wanted those freedoms, the price was high many lives and families suffered because it was for the cause of freedoms . Each person has a right to buy where they want to or not want to in our freedom countries.These same countries making judgment call on what can or cannot be sold no matter what. I am thinking that there are many stores selling the same things, I remember back in the 70's when any thing Nazi was the want for any biker, that phase passed and the people lived past it. It saddens me to see this sort of censorship happening that in it self, to me makes the freedoms the bravest men in history gave there lives for is being tarnished and made into some thing that was the cause of fighting.FREEDOM.in any way speech, living and so on.I'm for the basic freedom my relative and friends fought and died for. Think about it !
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amazed
May 23, 2007, 3 p.m.I'm with you, gbm. There was a skater clothes brand (don't remember which) that I would never let my kids buy because their logos were Iron crosses, which were just too reminiscent of Nazism to me. Likewise, I wouldn't let my son shave his head back in the early nineties when the skinheads were in the news -- he was about 9 and knew nothing of the connotations until I told him.
BUT...it is not for any congresspeople to tell Walmart or anyone else what they can or cannot sell based upon the message inscribed on it. That is a clear violation of the 1st amendment. Whether it was an official Congressional sanction or just Congresspeople using their position to pressure Walmarts doesn't matter.
That's more troubling than the shirts.
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doppich
May 23, 2007, 3:17 p.m.The only shirts I'd like to see removed from Walmart are the ones with the "Made in China" labels. Then maybe I'd shop there again. Maybe.
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quackpot
May 23, 2007, 3:58 p.m.What I want to know (as one of the more pinko-commie members of netscape) is why the hell is congress sticking it's nose into Walmart's product line?
What Walmart sells (as distasteful as this merchandise might be) is a matter between Walmart and its customers.
Congressional letter indeed! Government, get out of our faces!
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antiwar
May 23, 2007, 4:42 p.m.It's a freakin T-shirt. There are t-shirts bearing Swear words, of very offensive nature but people still buy them, I have a few myself. Whats wrong with the Nazi symbol there have been worse symbols thrown on t-shirts anyway, why only the nazi symbol.
I LOVE WALMART
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amazed
May 23, 2007, 4:42 p.m.Another thread is all about the right-leaning fascist threat to our freedom.
I'm not sure, but I'd be willing to bet that this blog is not what you would call a conservative one -- and it's calling for out and out censorship.
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rightiswrong
May 23, 2007, 5:11 p.m.What I need to know, is can I still listen to the song "The House Of The Rising Sun" you know that Jap song.
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ballbuster2
May 23, 2007, 5:28 p.m.the swastika was a religious symble(cross)of the church hitler attended as a child, growing up in austria. after the first w.w. ended and he discovered he was a failuar at everything he attempted, he discovered he had the "gift of gab." after becaming politically motivated he adapted the swastika for his new political party along with a few old ex-german officer's he met during the war.
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gdragon
May 23, 2007, 6:38 p.m.>Yes I have "been there" and I now travel better than 50 miles one way because Wal-Mart doesn't sell the products I need or want - you know the ones that bear the label Made in America
If you didn't travel 50 miles each way, you could put in the gas money (and time)saved to support the local economy anyway.
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markd2007
May 23, 2007, 7:18 p.m.Before the swastika was adopted by the Nazis, it was a symbol representing the sun, which was actually reversed from its original, counter-clockwise state to clockwise. Who cares if foreign kids ******ed some people off. Muslims and others whine about things they don't like about our schools and get their way. Bastards all need to keep in mind that they can go back where they came from if they don't find things to their liking here.
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jock
May 23, 2007, 8:20 p.m.Well, I live in a large city. Here Walmart convinces our city to give them all kinds of incentives to build-tax breaks, etc. worth millions of dollars. They take the money, build the store, other businesses come....then they stop putting money into their own store, allowing it to become scummy and frightening-all the nearby stores decline likewise...finally the tax breaks run out so they close the store. They leave a big ugly box that nobody will buy, a blighted neighborhood where all the stores start closing. THEN they convince the city to give them millions more to build a NEW store in another part of the city!! They tout JOBS, but that is BULL-because they just put a store full of people out of work. It's a scam.
And from what I understand most of their own employees can't afford the health care plan they offer. How is it Walmart can force suppliers to lower their prices until they go broke, but they can't use that clout to lower the price of their own health care plan?
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agentX
May 23, 2007, 10:09 p.m.Doesn't Wal-mart ever learn? I never did understand that company.
There's plenty of Congressmen in office right now who are itching to open up a can of investigations on Wal-Mart. And here they are, right after Congress asked them to stop selling Nazi material, they're selling Nazi material. Since 1978.
I know they want to attract a wide market but come on!
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