[GeoStL] Re: Opinions, please...would a swastika be offensive to you, even if it's part of the cache's theme?

  • From: Andrew Senger <asenger@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 21:48:04 -0500

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Mike,

What's the stigma behind flying the Irish flag to offend someone? I
see none, and you're following the Flag Code for our flag.  If
someone's ignorant enough to be offended by your flying two flags,
then offending them is the least of my worries.

However, the swastika HAS offended people -- millions of people. It
still has a personal history to millions of people around the world.

It's a cliche, but you can't make everyone happy. However, I don't see
how not using the container he mentioned would offend any one, but
using it could. Why even go down that path?

Andrew Senger
asenger@xxxxxxxxx
http://www.yawetag.net
"In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. He's also
postmaster and probably traffic cop, too. All the jobs for sports
referees are probably filled, though." --Lemel Hebert-Williams



On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 9:40 PM, Mike Griffin<griff@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Without getting too political, I just feel that this is where we have lost
> backbone. People cannot do anything anymore if it offends only one person.
> I fly the Irish flag under the US Flag and was told by someone it was
> offensive to do that. I just don't understand what this world is coming to.
> They are erasing the civil war leaders of the South because it is offensive.
> When will it end?
> I can no longer say, "Proud to be an American" because someone somewhere
> will get offended.
>
> Mike
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>
> From: Gary Braman
> To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 9:33 PM
> Subject: [GeoStL] Re: Opinions, please...would a swastika be offensive to
> you, even if it's part of the cache's theme?
>
> I think you may have answered your own question.
>
>
>
> If you have to ask – I wouldn’t.
>
>
>
> Fried Okra.
>
>
>
> From: geocaching-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:geocaching-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Michael Rogers
>
> Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 9:28 PM
> To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [GeoStL] Opinions, please...would a swastika be offensive to you,
> even if it's part of the cache's theme?
>
>
>
> Hello, all...
>
> I have a question...I am currently creating a puzzle cache. The basic
> premise is that some disgruntled ex-Nazis plan to kidnap Sir Winston
> Churchill after delivering his "Sinews of Peace" (Iron Curtain) speech in
> Fulton, MO. Basically, it's up to the cacher to decipher the clues to get to
> a container left for the ex-Nazis to enact their plan before they do. The
> container is the final cache location.
>
> To keep with the theme, I found an eagle/swastika stencil kind of like the
> one used in "Raiders of the Lost Ark" and was planning on using it to
> decorate the final cache container. The final container will be inside
> another container that will be locked by a combination lock, so it will not
> be seen by anyone that is not meant to find it.
>
> So I ask...would such markings be offensive to you if you were to find the
> cache?


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