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Right-Wing German Extremists Tricked By Trojan Shirts
gzipped_tar writes "Fans at a recent right-wing extremist rock festival in Germany thought they were getting free T-shirts that reflected their nationalistic worldview. But after the garment's first wash they discovered otherwise. The original image rinsed away to reveal a hidden message from an activist group. It reads: 'If your T-shirt can do it, so can you. We'll help to free you from right-wing extremism.'"
If it causes at least one parent to positively change a kids direction in life, then it was well worth the money spent.
What does "positively" mean? Changing the direction of their life in a way that you or their parents like?
Filthy, filthy copyrapists!
In fact, hating people for being different has only been considered bad very recently in history. Just a couple of generations ago, it was just a given, and it was a given to virtually every culture on the planet.
It's still a given in any culture with a hope of long-term survival. Without this, a culture lacks the cohesion required to prevent being overrun by others. (other things are required too of course, like a decent birth rate and the ability to defend land)
You OK with outsiders moving in and bringing their own culture? Fine, kiss your own culture bye-bye. Soon enough **you** get to be the minority and maybe the newcomers don't have such welcoming views of your ways. With a bit of bad luck, you find yourself living in a Taliban-like world or worse.
The definition of Right and Left is obviously blurred in the U.S., and I'm sure it is elsewhere, especially when statist/socialist type movements like Hitlers and Mussolini's are branded as Right Wing in places like Wikipedia, but statist/socialist movements like FDR's and Obama's (the former of which got fan mail from Mussolini who is branded Right Wing) are labeled Left Wing.
I can't stand when people talk politics and bust out left vs. right wing, when the definitions are blurred, especially when the guardians of Wikipedia use selective reference approval, brand anything negative Right and anything positive Left, and guard the articles with the iron fist of tenure.
If they're Neo-Nazi's please call them Neo-Nazi's. If they're something else, please call them something else, Left and Right labels are misused on such a frequent basis they're almost useless anymore. From what I've seen in Germany recently the "real" Neo-Nazi's are people who in power under other labels, and one of they ways they act like Nazi's is by quashing all reference to Nazi's and outlawing every video game they can. From what I can tell modern Neo-Nazi's are mostly punk anarchist in Germany, and in the U.S. they're usually ignorant racist rednecks. In any case they're the equivalent to every other racist extremist groups akin to MS-13, Triads, Black Panthers, etc..... Since when does a crime syndicate/gangster group really deserve a Left Vs. Right label?
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Heh, next are you going to tell me that minimum wages don't increase unemployment? Your entire post is basically showing that you've let partisan politics get in your way of seeing reality. You have choice now: you can either choose to reassess your position, and figure out how things really are, or you can pretend this didn't happen and go on blindly.
Your standard of living statistics read like you got them from some leftist propaganda website. Measuring standard of living is difficult of course, for example the French have a different way of measuring it, but check out this graph for one counterpoint. Any serious analysis (read: not partisan) of standard of living will show that for most people in the US in the last 30 years, it's gotten better.
Now go and enlighten yourself.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
The summary was somewhat misleading. In Germany, there is nothing similar to the tea party kind of right wing nutters, just more or less openly radical neo-nazis. And exactly that kind of people was tricked by that awesome t-shirt.
"It's such a fine line between stupid and clever" -- David St. Hubbins, Spinal Tap