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Psycho
Location: the western part of new york
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your post made me think of this event that happend a while ago.
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Target Pulls '88' Clothing
August 27, 2002 -- Target, the nationwide department-store chain, said today it will pull shorts and baseball caps emblazoned with neo-Nazi hate symbols from its shelves.
Carolyn Brookter, a spokesperson for Target, says the company’s buyers were unaware what the phrases "EIGHT EIGHT," "EIGHTY EIGHT" and "88" -- white power code for "Heil Hitler" -- meant when they shipped the clothing to more than 1,100 stores across the nation.
Brookter says the company has issued an alert to its stores to remove the items, now occupying summer clearance racks, as soon as possible.
Though the shirts and shorts in question bore Target’s house brand, Brookter said the company does not know if the merchandise was actually designed by a Target employee.
But, she reports that steps will be taken to educate the company’s advertising and buyers' departments and help them recognize any racist, offensive imagery on future merchandise.
Customer service personnel, Brookter says, will also be educated. Numerous attempts to alert the company’s guest relations and customer service departments about the offensive merchandise were met simply with form letters, including one stating the company "[recognizes] not all of our guests will agree with our decision to sell certain kinds of merchandise. ... However, we feel the final decision to purchase an item is always in the hands of individual guests."
Had the complaints initially made their way to Target’s media relations department, Brookter says, the issue would have been addressed immediately.
Joseph Rodriguez, a Sacramento Target customer who first alerted Tolerance.org to the apparel, disagrees.
"I’m literally just the common Joe," he said, "and I did everything I could think of to get someone at Target to respond, and I was totally ignored. I ran into a blank wall, a giant corporate mountain that simply did not care."
While the company has agreed to address issues of corporate education and bureaucracy, it will not tackle educating consumers like Rodriguez who may have purchased the merchandise.
Brookter says customers who purchased the "88" shorts and hats may return the items under the company’s ordinary return policy. In essence, Target stopped short of agreeing to reimburse customers if the clothing has already been worn or if receipts from summer shopping sprees are long lost.
"Target needs to go further," said Jennifer Holladay, director of Tolerance.org. "The company should treat the clothing as the defective products they are and give customers their money back."
Rodriguez, too, wants Target to do more.
"They have a chance here to really make a difference. To teach parents about some of the dangers out there that they don’t know about," Rodriguez said. "I mean, really, Target is everywhere. Imagine what good they can do if they tried. I respected the company because they have a diverse staff in every Target I’ve ever visited."
"But, if they hide behind some statement and don’t take this opportunity to do the right thing, shame on them."
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taken from http://www.tolerance.org/news/article_hate.jsp?id=604
and also your comment about the swastika it has much more meaning than hitler, as i'm sure does the iron cross,
http://history1900s.about.com/gi/dyn...F15%2F151.html
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