Olympic Store Sells Out of T-Shirt Promoting Adolf Hitler's 1936 Games (www.usmagazine.com)
from 52fighters@lemmy.sdf.org to world@lemmy.world on 15 Feb 19:02
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Deestan@lemmy.world on 15 Feb 19:05 next collapse

IOC sells nazi paraphernalia, huh

ohulancutash@feddit.uk on 15 Feb 19:28 collapse

And communist merch too, if you want to be an edgelord about it.

Protoknuckles@lemmy.world on 15 Feb 19:54 next collapse

Fuck off Nazi apologist.

givesomefucks@lemmy.world on 15 Feb 20:13 collapse

Your heart’s in the right place…

But you don’t understand what’s happening and you’re just blindly lashing out and instead of asking questions you’re accusing people you don’t understand of being “them”.

Like, it’s important people stop doing what you’re doing and understand why. Because your attitude is the same attitude that gets pointed at groups by fascists.

I punched my first Nazi in highschool, but that’s because he showed me an actual swastika tattoo on his chest, not because he said something I didn’t understand.

bdonvr@thelemmy.club on 15 Feb 19:59 collapse

How are those things at all equivalent

ohulancutash@feddit.uk on 15 Feb 20:04 collapse

The 1936, 1980 and 2008 games all feature in the range. Almost like it’s a commemoration of Olympiads not the people who hosted them.

bdonvr@thelemmy.club on 15 Feb 20:10 collapse

But why the supposition that games hosted by Communist led countries are “bad” like the Nazi games?

52fighters@lemmy.sdf.org on 15 Feb 21:24 collapse

If you want to get technical, all the games are bad because they extract vast amount of resources from people who live in the host city and leave behind unusable infrastructure. Also, the corruption. So much corruption.

Alexstarfire@lemmy.world on 15 Feb 19:40 next collapse

I’m sorry, what now?

massive_bereavement@fedia.io on 15 Feb 19:51 collapse

You stole my words. Though mine had more expletives.

gens@programming.dev on 15 Feb 19:49 next collapse

This looks like ragebait. No picture of the shirt, but three pictures with swastikas, plus random trump twitter posts.

ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works on 15 Feb 20:02 collapse

The shirt itself:

<img alt="" src="https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/bfb20469-53ba-4283-90f7-2abf58cfef44.jpeg">

I’m not sure why anyone would want one except to be an edgelord but there’s nothing obviously offensive on it.

givesomefucks@lemmy.world on 15 Feb 20:09 collapse

They released shirts of every Olympics…

The fact that the one drawing controversy sold out isn’t shocking, it’s not just edgelords and fascists buying it, “collectors”/scalpers are gonna be buying them up to flip as well.

It’s a feedback loop, the more the media makes a big deal and ignores all the context, the more demand there would be for it.

sem@piefed.blahaj.zone on 15 Feb 21:07 next collapse

They should have skipped the 1936 shirt like 13the floor elevators

ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works on 15 Feb 21:08 collapse

I don’t think it was strange for them to offer that shirt for sale, especially since they seem to have a print-on-demand system which does not involve any overhead for having an additional design. Offering the shirt is IMO less awkward that trying to pretend that Nazi Germany never existed.

expatriado@lemmy.world on 15 Feb 19:53 next collapse

took them 90 years

CubitOom@infosec.pub on 15 Feb 20:33 next collapse

Time to make our own Olympic shirts.

<img alt="" src="https://infosec.pub/pictrs/image/35f6663f-5fc8-4d4c-9070-1144ab26acef.jpeg">

Owens salutes the American flag after winning the long jump at the 1936 Summer Olympics. (L–R) Naoto Tajima, Owens, Luz Long.

SacralPlexus@lemmy.world on 15 Feb 22:13 collapse

<img alt="" src="https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/211a3624-3534-4a5b-b197-674e99a5633e.jpeg">

Here’s another shirt design I’d wear.

boaratio@lemmy.world on 15 Feb 20:58 next collapse

This is fucking despicable.

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