People look at me like I'm crazy when I point out that that the clothing brand boy literally use the nazi eagle as their logo (hexbear.net)

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Actually what the fuck is going on in the west

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[-] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 59 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Yeah I saw an actual store years ago somewhere on the east coast that had a huge fucking Reich eagle on the storefront with the BOY under it.

I was wide-eyed as fuck going "what the fuck is this"

Apparently it's English. Company literally called "Boy London" https://www.boy-london.com/collections/t-shirts-24

Of course someone on reddit noticing it a decade ago with my same reaction. https://old.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/2f8use/this_boy_london_logo_is_literally_a_nazi_symbol/?rdt=52214 and of course all the comments are all "Oops all Nazis" dead-dove-1 dead-dove-2 dead-dove-3 i-am-adolf-hitler

Honestly whoever came up with the idea to brand their shirts the nazi party's eagle should have it glued to their body and go for a tour in one of those small medieval torture cages on the back of a flatbed and have whatever shit people got on hand thrown at them

[-] Barabas@hexbear.net 29 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

"Ironic" nazi imagery used to be popular in certain parts of the 70s punk scene in London, which is where the brand originates from.

[-] TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 27 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Same with Fred Perry shirts, Lonsdale clothing and Ben Sherman jackets. Used to be the uniform for anti-racist, working class skinheads, rude boys and other kinds of cool people in London in the 70s. Now it's been co-opted by a bunch of nazi assholes or English geezers with the worst opinions you've ever heard.

[-] DickFuckarelli@hexbear.net 22 points 3 weeks ago

I still rock all those because boneheads and proud boys can all fuck right off. And I find delight when one tries to sidle up to me and I get to tell them to fuck off to their face.