I interpreted it as it was written without attaching any kind of personal prejudice to it.
Then you're implying I or others interpreted it with personal prejudice and not intellectual honesty? Let's look at it then:
"This is NOT an original Nazi/Third Reich era artifact, nor is it made to promote/endorse any ideology. Will not ship to Europe, or anywhere else that bans Nazi/Hitler related items."
The first part is irrelevant, it's a new sign that he builds in his garage, so yeah, duh, it's not an artifact... But, the 2nd part, to claim that it doesn't promote/endorse any ideology is intellectually dishonest. It objectively endorses the symbolism of the Nazi SA, not even the later SS, but the SA which were the thugs that helped bring Hitler to power and who he later had to turn on and purge using the SS... These types of BS disclaimers are pretty typical and understandable, but BS is BS.
I could be an atheist that sells beautifully-made Christian crosses on eBay and so, personally, I don't endorse the beliefs of Christianity, but I certainly
objectively do because I know that there are Christians out there that I'm marketing the product to and I wanna profit off of them... I'm objectively an enabler. Now, I don't mean to morally equate the SA symbol to a cross, but you get the idea...
So, point is, he objectively endorses Nazi-era symbolism and he knows that there are people out there that wanna buy it, so he's willing to profit off of them... How about if he was making KKK hoods/clothing and selling that on eBay, but says, well, hey, I don't endorse/agree with the KKK, I just supply their clothing and hell if they can pay, their money is good as far as I'm concerned ?? Same deal. Would you accept a bullshit disclaimer at face value then?
We can believe his claims about his personal views, but he has shown himself time and time again to be intellectually dishonest, less than credible... And then you take the discovery of him participating in a forum like chimpout.com, a site just of pure hate for black people, his general a$$hole attitude here ever since he arrived, and you can make pretty sound conclusions about the guy. One of the few things he has told the truth about is "never backing down," that much is for sure... He's still as defiant, unapologetic and shameless as ever and trying to cast all the evidence brought before him as the result of nothing more than "drama-queen-ism" and other annoying things like simplifying or miscasting the outrage down to, "
Oh, you guys don't like that I have all white chicks on my desktop??" He further insults people's intelligence with that shit...
At this point, I think this sounds about right.
Ah good, we agree there.
Eh, funny, exactly what I think about the majority of democrats and Occupy Wall Street criminals.
The majority of Democrats are f*cking stupid, they just don't wear it on their sleeves like Republicans do.
We'll have to agree to disagree. The thing is, nobody used this a$$hole to beat up groups on the forum other than racists. I judged him as an individual racist/extremist lunatic. I didn't try to attack republicans, libertarians or other political philosophies over this by trying to tie him to them... if you claim you didn't judge his disclaimer with any kind of personal prejudice, you certainly brought it for your later attack: majority of republicans = f*cking stupid. Also, republicans can hate Obama like they hated Clinton who they tried to impeach and it not have nothing to do with race/skin color - I'm tired of the race-card getting played by default. We had 8 years of Bush=Hitler hate, and the fact is, you can't run the country without pissing just about half of it off since presidential elections get won by 50% + 1-3 points, etc...
As a Reagan-republican myself, I made sure to beat this guy down even while others wanted to dismiss the criticism as "drama-queen-ism" as I said. He was offensive on many levels. At first, I wondered if I should get involved at all, I knew it'd pit me against other forum members that really wanted to buy signs from the guy, but Professor broke the dam to where it was blatantly revealed that this guy really was someone that should not get ANYBODY'S money given his background and that warranted a certain level of "activism" like gougers receive or swiss-type guys, etc. I'm sorry that offends people, but sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do. I consider Bernie and Arkhan friends, and the pedophilia charges really pissed me off and the lack of justice afterwards, so that was my motivator really. At the end of the day, Xray's pride and extremism is what led to this, had he actually taken the "high road" and stopped mouthing off, Professor, myself and others would've lost interest and turned our attention towards the usual stuff around here.
