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Hitler on a label

read 8038 times | 144 replies | posted 6/25/2009 9:10:06 AM

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premium wavers1 110:28	that beer is sooooooo awesome! i love it! jesus is all haggerred and shit, looks like one of his eyes is missing, the details are all there! i love the description too! i would say that, yes, it def was for a good glass of beer.	6/25/2009 5:56:20 PM Post a reply Private message
premium after4ever 2711:126	Originally posted by Soonah 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. I don’t think anybody’s saying it’s cool for people we know, for company in our homes, for you and me. But we don’t make laws for people we know, for company in our homes, for you and me. We make them for all of society, with, hopefully, meaningful examination of how they will affect the lives of people we know, for company in our homes, for you and me. But for society first. Running around telling people how much you love Mein Kampf--that sort of thing is regulated by the social contract. Because you won’t have any decent friends. But putting Hitler on a public document, label or otherwise, is governed by the law of the land, not what you and the victims’ families feel. Which is why this label is not on a German beer--the likeness is forbidden there. OF COURSE this label is offensive, on a personal level, for individuals. Do not confuse the reaction of our guts with the writ of international law. It does not matter if we poop active legislation. They’re two different things.	6/25/2009 11:48:02 PM Post a reply Private message
premium bhensonb 4182:286	Originally posted by DrnkMcDermott Even worse, it’s a Hitler moustache and hairdo pasted onto Tintin. But then, Hergé started Tintin while working for a newspaper so far rightward it tried to prove Hitler was a communist. National socialism was not all that far off from communism. Stalinism was not all that far off from national socialism. Get it? Hitler was a librul!!!	6/25/2009 11:53:53 PM Post a reply Private message
MrManning 1634:48	Yoyu’ve really got too much time on your hands if this silly label is offensive, or even an issue.	6/26/2009 12:04:22 AM Post a reply Private message
premium Smokepot23 10:3	Originally posted by ChristianScheffel It’s just a cartoon character in classic Belgian style that’s waving happily at us. If you want to interpret it as something else, that’s up to you. We have free speech in Denmark, so of course people are allowed to sell any kind of product or artwork that doesn’t interfere with other people’s life and liberty +1	6/26/2009 12:05:34 AM Post a reply Private message
premium JAXSON 229:3	The label for Witches Wit is more upsetting to me than the Hitler label. I just don’t really get the point of the Hitler label. Hitler was a monster but the label itself isn’t really that upsetting.	6/26/2009 12:23:21 AM Post a reply Private message
premium JK 2945:118	Some people are always looking for a reason to be offended.	6/26/2009 1:23:58 AM Post a reply Private message
premium Cletus 5001:169	Originally posted by JK Some people are always looking for a reason to be offended. I’m very offended by this statement because of the use of the word reason and the idea that I’d be looking for this.	6/26/2009 1:25:59 AM Post a reply Private message
premium Gary 352:1	Originally posted by JK Some people are always looking for a reason to be offended. +1	6/26/2009 3:06:34 AM Post a reply Private message
premium wavers1 110:28	Originally posted by Cletus Originally posted by JK Some people are always looking for a reason to be offended. I’m very offended by this statement because of the use of the word reason and the idea that I’d be looking for this. wow, now thats good.	6/26/2009 3:21:12 AM Post a reply Private message

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