there's nothing pc about this.
it is incomprehensible that a building design could be generated, approved and the building built apparently without anyone actually looking at the floor plan.
how else do you explain that the building was shaped like a fucking swastika in the first place, but that no-one in the navy noticed?
this is where the stupidity lay, folks:
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Navy officials say the shape of the buildings, designed by local architect John Mock, was not noted until after the groundbreaking in 1967 -- and since it was not visible from the ground, a decision was made not to make any changes.
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http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la...la-home-center
and not in the responses.
the proximate cause is google earth--not some fantasy "political correctness"--you know, that happy face of total satellitle surveillance.
now we are getting used to continuously available aerial views of landscapes and in some situations that causes embarrassment. like this one.
so the 600 grand is being spent to rectify an amazingly stupid error from 1966--the approval of the design.
anyone----except the "anti-pc set" in this thread apparently--would see the 2007 situation as an unintended consequence of that 1967 decision.
the use of this meaningless phrase "politically correct" in this thread is baffling.
its consequence is to enable folk to somehow pretend to themselves that the building just sprouted from the ground in the shape of a swastika and so objecting to that is like objecting to a flower shaped like a swastika.
so the "problem" lay in the reponses.
and that, folks, is ridiculous.