Well if you look at movies, there are idiots who honestly believe that TEAM AMERICA was pro-military, and others who took BORAT’s obvious satire as genuine hateful discrimination (not least of all some unwitting participants.)
So I just wonder if can we really restrict & dumb down everything people put out there to avoid encouraging the scum of the gene pool.
But as you say there are some really xenophobic, backwards attitudes in Eastern Europe that seem as if WW-II Germany and American black slavery never took place. Some attitudes come from well-dressed people with good educations who own a business. It’s very prevalent.
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I hate when brewers try to be "edgy." Let the quality of the beer sell itself, and not some stupid label that attempts to "push the envelope."
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I think some people miss the point. This is about 2 things, beer and Hitler.
I am sure Beer Here understood some people would get offended. I also highly doubt that anyone on here doesn’t understand why people would get offended. That is the Hitler part.
As far as the beer part I agree with Argo wholeheartedly
Not that it is much of a problem for the brewer since he is a long way away from importing to the states (as far as I know). As far as I am concerned my love for beer stems not just from what is inside the bottle but the industry itself. I like to give my money to individuals whom I respect and appreciate what they do. I can no longer appreciate what this brewery is doing (this is a loaded statement, there are other craft/micro products I do not support, and similarly I am sure there are other breweries I may not want to if I knew more operations/people).
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There IS the whole ’why the f-- is this necessary’ aspect of it. There’s no value of political satire is there?
I mean South Park is bloody obnoxious but there’s often a point to it, as there should be with comedy.
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below is my opinion. You are entitled to have your own too.
I found the label fun, entertaining. provocative, artsy..
Next thing we won’t be able to print monks on beers because christians historically have slaugthered left and right in the name of god..
calm down.. enjoy that we have free speech, and are free people. sometimes the best way to reflect on real bad stuff is to have some humor and satire in the mix.
Anyone want to boycot a brewery because they have provocative labels - go ahead, it’s your right to do so. we should all respect that.
My personal opinion is that ppl are too fucking uptight and rigtheous. Americans in particular. Strong religeous people a close second.
I’d rate a sadam hussein beer any day, except if $1 per sold beer was donated to al-quaida.
Btw. beer here dark hops rocks, and i recommend it highly. it’s not world class, but definetly above most of the european competition. i am quite certian it is distributed or going to be distributed to the states, as the label had some usa looking mumblejumble on it. i could be wrong, i was not sober when i had it, memory can sort of crash in those circumstances.
cheers!
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Let’s say your mother (or sister or whatever family member makes this argument more effective for me) was kidnapped, beaten, raped and murdered, her naked body dumped on the side of the road. Then let’s say that someone named Bill Smith was arrested and tried and convicted of those crimes. The next year a company makes something, let’s say it was potato chips. This company decides to call them Bill Smith Potato Chips. With a picture of the person who did this to your family featured on the bag. What the company is doing isn’t illegal, but I would bet you a shiny nickel, that unless you are a hopeless sociopath, that you would take umbrage with this company’s decision.
I’ll qualify the above post by saying that although I am an American I am both a Libertarian and an Atheist and I have enough common sense to understand that free speech is a wonderful thing; a wonderful thing that comes with responsibility.
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they used to make charles manson action figures.
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Said beer did not picture hitler at all. It merely pictured tintin with a mustache, as the beer is a fusion between belgian and german wheat beer.
And yea, being Danish (bordering germany) and having family being occupied and harassed by the germans in WW2, i sort of know what was going on. It wasn’t pretty. shit happens. gotta move on, and try not to make the same mistake again.
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I Denmark "free speech" and most of Pinball’s comments is just an excuse for idiots to act like idiots. This mostly because you do not have to think before you talk/act in Denmark. This goes mostly for the much spoken of carton drawing that pissed of almost every single Muslim, but also for this beer label.
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Well, clearly Denmark has a certain talent when it comes to provoking the rest of the world with cartoons.
The vast majority here haven’t seen the label with the beer drinking Jesus from Beer Here that’s being mentioned. Here it is on my blog:
http://beerticker.dk/ny-oel-beer-here-paaske-658/
On the right the original one. On the left the innocent version made for a Danish supermarket chain.
The text on label says:
"When Jesus nearly 2000 years ago started the Easter tradition by leaving the grave, it might very well have been in the persuit of a good glas of beer".
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