However, by Monday afternoon, a search on the page for the newly redesigned t-shirts returned only an error message. The company responded to the burgeoning controversy first with an about-face, putting out a redesign that incorporated a red slash through the swastika. In The Pink Swastika, Abrams and Lively argue that homosexuals were the 'true inventors of Nazism and the guiding force behind many Nazi atrocities' 5 and that 'there was far more brutality, rape, torture and murder committed against innocent people by Nazi deviants and homosexuals than there ever was against homosexuals. It wasn't exactly the response KA Design had hoped for. Andrew Anglin, the founder of the neo-Nazi Daily Stormer website, praised the shirts: "I have been trying to do this for years, and I am thankful that hippies are finally getting on-board with that particular project. However, there were a few supporters of the effort. The story of the attempt to re-brand the swastika appeared in several newspapers in Israel and Arsen Ostrovsky, the executive director of the Israeli-Jewish Congress, denounced the company's clothing line as "obscene and disgusting." Yet others expressed concern that the swastika was being conflated with the rainbow symbol of the LGBTQ community.
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Although he was unarmed when he was arrested on June 23, police found an axe, a machete and. 'Peace with Swastika'! Obscene & disgusting! US clothing design co. He also filmed a video of himself setting fire to a gay pride flag, and posing next to a swastika. Tasteless, inconsiderate and disgusting! Extremely offensive to the 6 million who lost their lives!" 1:47 UCP member slammed for comparing pride flag to swastika WATCH: A prominent Calgary lawyer and UCP member is facing public backlash after comments he made during a Rebel Media event. One person, referring to the Holocaust, posted a review on the company's page: "If this is some kind of PR stunt, it's not going your way. Then (not surprisingly) came the backlash. (For more on the company's rationale, you can see an interview here.) Bethesda Pride Month Logos refers to the controversy surrounding Bethesda’s change to its logos to feature the rainbow flag on Twitter that celebrates LGBTQ+ Pride Month for all accounts except Russia, Turkey and the Middle East. KA Design promised: "The swastika is coming back, together with Peace, together with Love, together with Respect, together with Freedom." In a video posted on its Facebook page on July 12, the company (tagline: "Questioning Boundaries") says that for thousands of years, the swastika meant something positive: "But one day, Nazism. It is this second meaning that a clothing company, KA Design, says it was trying to recapture when it recently launched a line of T-shirts on featuring its "new" swastika, emblazoned with rainbow colors and the words "love," "peace" and "zen." Even today, in the Indian subcontinent and parts of Southeast Asia it is not uncommon to see the symbol painted on buildings and vehicles as a sign of good fortune. In that light, the UCP hosted Pride breakfasts in both Edmonton and Calgary this year.Think of the swastika and chances are that what comes to mind is the murderous regime of Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany.īut the symbol is at least 5,000 years old and is incorporated into Hindu, Buddhist and Jain iconography. “The UCP is a big-tent party that supports the rule of law, equality of all before the law, and protection of the fundamental rights and freedoms of all. This is an extremist in his ranks.” John Carpay compared a Pride flag to a swastika at a Rebel Media eventĪ spokesperson for Kenney dodged calls to suspend Carpay, telling the outlet: “Of course we do not believe the rainbow flag has any equivalency to fascism and communism-ideologies that have been responsible for the deaths of well over 100 million people.
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“ Jason Kenney was just in the media last week talking about how he’s going to create a database to keep extremists out of the UCP. LGBT+ campaigners have said that Carpay’s comments betray the bigotry behind his activism, and pressed the right-wing populist United Conservative Party (UCP), which is the official opposition in the Alberta’s legislative assembly, to suspend Carpay’s membership.ĭuncan Kinney of Progress Alberta told CBC: “To equate the Nazis with the movement for equality for LGBTQ people is abhorrent. John Carpay is under fire over his Nazi swastika remarksĬanada’s CBC notes that Carpay is behind a lawsuit seeking to challenge a law protecting gay-straight alliance clubs in schools, which Carpay claims are “ideological sexual clubs.”Ĭarpay also argued in a court battle that a Christian law school should have the right to refused to admit LGBT+ students.