Crazy Wal-Martians

So it seems tha Wal-Mart doesn't recognize hypocrisy...or good taste. Though anyone who has shopped there knows they don't make their money on good taste.

I'll let the article speak for itself.

Couple of things...

1. Wal-Mart and Naziism. Not a good combination.

2. Wal-Mart commenting about censorship. Laughable. Isn't this the company that censors magazines, music, art, films, and books that it feels it's consumers should not have the right to purchase in their fine stores? Little bit of irony here...?

Another separate question...is there an instance where disasteful imagry, symbolism, or even photos of book burnings can be used in a positive context or to send a message? Is it always distasteful?

I think that yes it is distasteful, but the larger comment is that as a society perhaps we allow symbols to take on more meaning and power than they should.

A recent example in Northwest Arkansas...a new Razorback football coach was forcing underperforming players to wear pink jerseys as a form of hazing and playing off the perception of pink as a girl's color. This was ended after the press got wind of it and some complaints were levied against the team. Some of the complaints allegedly centered on the poor taste in using thec color pink and it's symbolic lockstep with breast cancer.

So essentially the color pink is off-limits because it might offend someone who has cancer? Does that mean red (aids) is off-limits as well? Or yellow (missing people/war)?

Are we moing toward an entirely beige society?