Clothing Company Is Facing Backlash For Trying To Bring Back The Swastika

[Initech]

A clothing company is apparently so interested in pushing the boundaries of fashion, it’s tried to make the swastika a “symbol of love and peace.” That declaration, though, has been met with massive resistance online.

K A Designs tried to push the narrative that it was reclaiming the swastika by explaining that it’s a 5,000-year-old symbol that was once associated with peace, love, and life until the Nazis turned it into a marker of hate.

“They stigmatized the swastika forever,” K A explained in its video. “They won. They limited our freedom. Or maybe not? The swastika is coming back, together with peace, together with love, together with respect, together with freedom.”

Then, it introduced a rainbow-colored swastika that could be printed on shirts, promoting love, peace, zen, and freedom.

The backlash was almost immediate.

“I am outraged and shocked that any company would seek to profit from selling such reprehensible items,” Dr. Dvir Abramovich, chairman of the Anti-Defamation Commission in Australia, told PinkNews. “The swastika does not represent the LGBTI community, whose members were the victims of Hitler’s evil regime. And no, it cannot be rebranded as a symbol of peace. KA’s naïve, and in many ways, selfish attitude shows a staggering lack of concern for the feelings of those who survived the Holocaust and those who lost relatives to the monstrous deeds of the Third Reich.”

As of Monday morning, Teespring had taken the T-shirts offline. K A Designs did not immediately respond to a Daily Dot request for comment.
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Yeah maybe that's one thing you don't bring back, idiots, especially with all the hate in the news lately.

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[irisblue]

1. Ummmmm

What the hell???
No just no

[ProudLib72]

2. Iron Sky: "It is a sign of peace!"

[Lilma]

3. good

[madaboutharry]

4. What is wrong with Teespring?

Whoever ok'd this for their site should be made to spend a week in a Holocaust museum.

[Warren DeMontague]

7. Nothing. They pulled the design as soon as they became aware of it, it looks like.

It's a print on demand site. They obviously have the right to exercise some editorial control over what goes out, but it's not like they're personally approving every design that comes through the door.

[Hekate]

5. Not just no, but hell no

What an idiot

[The_REAL_Ecumenist]

6. Yes, Dear lady it is but please allow me to add a beautiful flourish

to your comment....{{She clears her throat}}..."NOT just hell no, but FUCK NAW!" when I first saw that, I couldn't believe my eyes. I've worked with TEESPRING and have had some designs deleted because of a perceived problem, most of the time MADE NO SENSE but THIS MONSTROSITY is is okayed...WHAT THE ACTUAL F*CK?

[Warren DeMontague]

8. They're not a "clothing company", they're some trolls with a copy of photoshop.

Dont give them more credit than they deserve.

[Laffy Kat]

9. Oh, surprised. I figured it would be an Ivanka design. nt

[Gabi Hayes]

10. If it sells

Who cares how it smells?

Like the remains of a thousand rotting hells?

Kickstart!

[JCanete]

11. maybe wait another 5000 years. I've got a feeling this symbol isn't redeemable in a world that

retains its history books. Unless Hitler suddenly becomes just another genocidal maniac in the shadow of some greater monster.

[Behind the Aegis]

12. Good!

Fucking bigots! They weren't trying to "reclaim" shit, only trying to start it!

[Rhiannon12866]

13. What the hell did they expect???

[brush]

14. Yeah, that was kinda dumb. No-brainer dumb.

[Rhiannon12866]

17. It's not like everyone in the Western World doesn't see this as the symbol of the regime

And the man who is uniformly regarded as the most evil being in history!

[yardwork]

15. Trolling for attention.

[dalton99a]

16. Smart move