Can’t be a mistake no one is that lazy are they? It looks cheesy so only excuse I could see is last minute but no freaking way when you can get sued and lose more money than sales if someone owns rights.
Well, this is certainly problematic. For more information on the Sonnenrad, see our hate symbols database at https://www.adl.org/education/references/hate-symbols/sonnenrad …. "Shakira selling Nazi-like trinket for El Dorado tour"http://p.dw.com/p/2zsik?maca=en-Twitter-sharing …
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I am sure it was just a mistake. She can't get sued for that symbol--no one holds the rights to it--but it is very unfortunate and hopefully they have been made aware and will no longer sell it.
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Likely a mistake. As the ADL info notes about some symbols, they may have a non-Nazi cultural origin. (As with some Hindu and Baltic motifs.) But for marketing design choice, it is definitely a bad mistake. Also hints of loss of recognition of the bad history of the symbol.
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A caution for marketing designers: please research the candidate designs. Use Google image searches, diverse reviewers, historians, etc. Besides the bad publicity, some symbols may cause serious problems for your customers. (This applies not only to symbols but also photos, etc.)
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Using google image searches (w/o the other stuff) has actually caused some of these flaps, I've noticed. For ex (this happened), a clothing designer wants to create a shirt w/a skull motif & does a google image search on skulls--choosing what turns out to be the Totenkopf image.
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Excellent point. Incomplete Google searches are dangerous. A OSINT tactic I sometimes use is to run queries that are neutral (just the keywords), with positive adjectives added, and with negative adjectives. Also look for the history of the symbol.
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But these Mayan like Symbols existed before even Germany Former or Current ever existed or even color based racism.
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That's not a Mayan symbol.
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Where does the sun pattern originate from? It's like something that originates from a native/indigenous symbol. I do see how that is problematic in that it isn't originating from native cultures from the Western Hemisphere but solely from the German sun pattern.
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There’s a lot of celebrities that I could imagine you’d tweet about, but honestly Shakira was waaaay down on the list.
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The Sambacaust is coming amigo, you heard it here first.
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Swastika is a Sanskrit word. It’s mostly been a good luck symbol since the beginning of civilization. The Nazis twisted it into a hate symbol. I think that who uses them gives meaning to symbols. I check out tattoos all the time.
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