Thurston Pundits

Waxing philosphical...after reading this article.

Yeah- this message goes out to a time machine to the Nazi German Third Reich and to the white supremists of the 1970s and 80's:  Stop taking symbols that really ought to mean something cool and turning them into your perverted branding campaigns.

How about a time, which includes the majority of the course of human history when the swastika stood for good luck and prosperity?  Will that time ever return, or do the Nazi's and white supremists own this symbol forever?  I dunno, but I'm going to side with Jews on how long that symbol stays in the penalty box of logos.

How about a time when the flag of the confederacy stood for rebellion against a central government trashing states rights?  Yes I know my civil war history, and at best, you can tie the expansion of slavery into new states and territories as an ancillary issue and was used as political football, not unlike Social Security/Medicare today.  Most Southerners as I understand were also not fond of slavery.  Rebellion, not racism (until about 30-40 years ago).  Lucky thing those racist Brits had abolished slavery but were being sympathetic to the South, thus Lincoln issued emancipation to put Britain in the impossible position of having to be publicy racist if they supported the South*. 

Tom Petty, who is of late as big as any of libtards, made a similar lamentation when he had to drop using the confederate flag with his concert tours and albums in the early 1980's.   Again, rebellion, not racism.  Sadly cool lost out.

Other thoughts:

To their credit, the gay pride promoters chose an absolutely horrid brand symbol (that rainbow flag) which quite honestly, no one but little girls and and the rainbow state of Hawaii would want to reclaim. Also to their credit, the communists have been keeping with the Soviet flag who to their own credit, the Soviets had a graphic design team come up with something original.  Dope smokers were able to hijack Adidas and for the longest while Adidas dropped the three leaves, but since Hwy 420 is more fashionable these days, they've been putting it back in, likely to drive Tshirt sales up among the dope smokers.  The Tea Party crowd seems to have gone towards the "Don't tread on me" logo, which is pretty much in line with the original intent, so no branding foul there.



*Side note; this begs the question: what if the South had abolished slavery in order to curry favor with foreign supporters? The course of human history might have been quite different.