The symbol you're right about that, it's even an ancient Finnish symbol for good luck used by Finnish fishermen
Well, it certainly was in MY case. Poor United, an institution that would never seek the bogus high moral ground when it comes to racial issues....
Shut up There was nothing wrong with the email, it's all bollocks tbh and is nothing even remotely anything to do with anything other than stupid people looking for anything to be offended by
It's incompetent to say the least. And, for what it's worth, a really crap piece of design. I think the situation is made far worse by banging the words 'New Order' alongside it. Surprised the e-mail didn't have a Joy Division track running over the top just to finesse the ineptitude. It's just a bad call. No need to bang the political correctness drum. Back to the footie.... GKRK
Agree, it's just cap. There is nothing wrong with the term new order, it's been around far longer than the Nazis. It was just a bit of a crap job by whomever put it together but to relate that to the Nazis is just
Davey Moyes will have to rename his book about his early days as manager at OT in the wake of the Nazi emblem mix-up, he planned to call it 'My Struggle'
I can see where they are coming from, it is a shoddy design and does vaguely resemble the Nazi symbol with the slant, the colours and the lettering angles plus the title- but it's silly to somehow claim that United are Nazi supporters based off that or that there's some agenda. Honestly, it's just a stupid error that it got through the checks rather than anything sinister. I can't imagine people would get offended over it though...
This is the problem, if you have normal people doing the checks they will see nothing wrong with it. It seems companies now have to employ people with twisted minds to ensure they don`t offend anyone.
Any big company should employ people who find this kind of crap before anything gets released. Someone with the slightest bit of insight into modern PR and PC should have at least had a second look at it. If that person existed, United wouldn't have backtracked so fast nor done so as strongly as they did. It does vaguely resemble the Nazi sign, and the colours and title don't help, and it's enough of a resemblance for people to flag it early if they had half a brain because vaguely is all PC people need these days.
Pretty sure when the London 2012 logo was first released some people compared that to a swastika too. It's a bit of a PR blunder by Utd, but then there are some people who will just look for controversy and outrage anywhere they can. Can't help but think this sort of synthetic outrage cheapens the memory of those who died due to the Nazis, and those who are still subject to violence and racism from neo Nazis around the world. And yes donga, I feel the same about the manufactured and media-fuelled Suarezgate outrage distracting from the real issues of individuals who are subject to genuine and intended racism on a daily basis.
