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- From: cdt@sw.stratus.com (C. D. Tavares)
- Newsgroups: rec.models.scale
- Subject: Re: Politically Correct Models
- Message-ID: <7296@transfer.stratus.com>
- Date: 16 Oct 92 17:09:43 GMT
- References: <1992Oct15.130756.29222@spectrum.xerox.com>
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- In article <1992Oct15.130756.29222@spectrum.xerox.com>, Sprague.Wbst311@Xerox.Com writes:
- > A model is just that. I am building a minature version of an
- > actaul thing that existed! It is NOT political statement of any kind,
- > and it is NOT meant to offend anyone.
-
- As a modeling magazine editor, I once made the mistake of running a
- "germanic" sport design with a swastika as part of the decoration.
- In other words, NOT a historic scale model, but a fantasy-type model.
- The purpose of the swastika was to place the model in the obvious
- historical milieu. Well, after the mail I received, I'll never do
- it again. It's just not worth the grief.
-
- > As to Political Correctness, I am not a fan either. I feel
- > that you should avoid saying or doing something because you KNOW
- > it's wrong, and you CARE about not hurting someone. You should not
- > feel you have to behave in a certain way, because it is politically
- > correct.
-
- Indeed, the scolding I received seemed designed to produce guilt,
- rather than to educate me.
-
- > Chuckle, for that matter, the swastika symbol is a lot older
- > than the Nazis. Off the top of my head, I don't remember where it
- > origionally came from, but I think it was some sort of religious
- > symbol at one time.
-
- The Navajo Indians, I'm pretty sure. Though to me it seems more likely
- that the Nazis adopted it from some independent chain of descent, given
- the success that the Navajo "code speakers" enjoyed against the Germans
- during WWII.
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