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The demanding logic of logo-hunters. Yesterday, it was Amazon’s, is your logo the next PC warrior’s target?ET Bureau
Last Updated: Mar 13, 2021, 10:06 AM IST
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Is it just us, or do some/many detect a Hindu caste mark above a wry smile in the latest Amazon logo?
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Some/many over-caffeinated folks saw the blue strip on top of the smiley face logo supposed to be an anthropomorphisation of a delivery box with a blue tape on top looking like Hitler’s trademark moustache over a smirk.
Commentary: In Dr. Seuss, the complexity of racism
Robert Seltzer, For the Express-News
March 13, 2021
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Theodor Seuss Geisel, known as Dr. Seuss, speaks in Dallas in 1987. Dr. Seuss is being seen in a new light over racist imagery in some of his publications. How can such a man be guilty of the very ugliness he condemns? It may be difficult to reconcile this contradiction, but the dynamic reflects the complex nature of racism./Associated PressShow MoreShow Less
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A copy of the book And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, by Dr. Seuss. The book and others will no longer be published due to racist imagery.Steven Senne /Associated PressShow MoreShow Less
History Needs An Answer: Where Did Hitler s Madness Come From?
The denial of the Jews’ humanity was, to as diverse a group of observers as Hannah Arendt, Konrad Adenauer and George Mosse, due to the anti-Christian, secular elements of Nazi racism.
Here s What You Need to Remember: From the beginning to the end of the war that he and his government had launched, Hitler and his associates concluded that their paranoid fantasy of an international Jewish conspiracy was the key to contemporary history.
IN 1978, in
Toward the Final Solution: A History of European Racism, the historian George Mosse emphasized the parallels between European white racism of the modern era towards blacks and European racial hatred of the Jews. Both the European pseudoscientists and racial ideologues such as Houston Stewart Chamberlain, and then various Nazi racial ideologues, like the advocates of white supremacy in the United States, purported to uncover connections between external appearances and
Drier: Has political correctness gone too far?
Mary Drier, For the Tribune
March 12, 2021
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Mary Drier
There has been a flurry of news articles about companies changing their logos on products or the products themselves because they were perceived as being insensitive to some cultures.
I was rather surprised when there wasn’t the usual fanfare about reading in celebration of Dr. Seuss and his birthday. Theodor Seuss Geisel (aka Dr. Seuss) was born March 2, 1904. There was usually a big deal made about reading on March 2.
Then, I saw a news broadcast that some of his books were going to stop being printed because it was felt the illustrations were racist.
Ho 229: The Story Behind Nazi Germany s Stealth Fighter (See the Pic)
The Ho 229 might have been a formidable adversary - if they had got in in the air by the war’s end.
Here s What You Need to Remember: Flying wing designs were not an entirely new idea and had been used before in both gliders and powered aircraft. During World War II, Northrop developed its own high-performing XB-35 flying wing bomber for the U.S. military, though it failed to enter mass production. Despite the aerodynamic advantages, the lack of a tail tended to make fly wing aircraft prone to uncontrolled yaws and stalls.