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August 01, 2006

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A question...

Is this a product of , , or am I just in high school again?

Swastika at workThis is something that I never thought I’d see in a restroom at my workplace…

And I’m a little freaked out because of it.

Ugh.

Posted at 10:37 am

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Comments (12):
err, a product of ignorance, which cannot ever be completely erased.

peder e. horner (URL) - August 01, 2006 at 11:28 pm

Sigh…

jpierce (URL) - August 02, 2006 at 12:22 am

Oops, sorry… i was just trying to get the pen to work….

dennisthemenace () - August 02, 2006 at 02:12 am

I can always count on you, Dennis. :-p

timsamoff () (URL) - August 02, 2006 at 06:49 am

For some, I don’t think it can be explained away by ignorance, though perhaps stupidity would work. It’s true enough that a good deal of knowing who we are is knowing who we are not. To the knuckle-dragging crowd, that means hating entire races and nations. And then there’s the possibility that someone drew it entirely for shock value, without much thought to its larger significance.

wheat (URL) - August 02, 2006 at 07:29 am

Yeah, but, Wheat… At a 20,000+ employee, Fortune 500 company?!

timsamoff () (URL) - August 02, 2006 at 08:17 am

Two thoughts: 1) Could it have been the delivery guy? Or someone else who doesn’t work there but has access to the bathrooms? Somebody’s kid in for a visit?

2) Remember that the head-honcho Nazis included quite a few well-educated, otherwise “enlightened” folks. One can be reasonable about a wide range of topics and still be a knuckle-dragger when it comes to race. I don’t know how it’s possible, exactly, but it seems to be true (sad, but true).

wheat (URL) - August 02, 2006 at 09:06 am

Oh, yeah… All of that can be true, of course. It’s just a little disheartening to see it still happening in this day and age (and, I know that I am more idealistic than some — the pragmatic side of me knows that this will never change).

timsamoff () (URL) - August 02, 2006 at 09:15 am

oh shit! That was at work!?

dennisthemenace () - August 02, 2006 at 12:49 pm

That is what it says up there. ;-)

timsamoff () (URL) - August 02, 2006 at 2:29 pm

Or, perhaps, the person who left the sign was an artist who is doing this to Fortune 500 company bathrooms and seeing who blogs about it (i.e., Tim Samoff).

;)

p.e.horner (URL) - August 02, 2006 at 10:55 pm

Ha ha! That’s a good one, Peder! :-D

timsamoff () (URL) - August 03, 2006 at 05:49 am

  
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