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Imagine you’re shopping at your local drugstore, looking for Christmas wrapping paper, when all of a sudden, you see a roll of paper with a crucified Jesus and a bunch of Roman soldiers giving a big thumbs up. Or an image of the devil, whipping out his big, red schlong. Or a big middle finger accompanied by the slogan, “Fuck you and your beliefs.”
Well, that’s pretty much what happened over the weekend when California resident Cheryl Shapiro was shopping with her grandson at her local Walgreens and came across some wrapping paper with, well, a symbol that will instantly offend anyone with the last name “Shapiro”–especially a “Grandma Shapiro.”
Walgreens pulls Hannukah wrapping paper due to unforeseen swastikas http://t.co/vAElhe1CRj pic.twitter.com/SlI8xjS8Xb
— Seth Palmer (@sethpalmer3) December 8, 2014
Yeah, that’s right. A Los Angeles Walgreens was selling wrapping paper with a geometric design containing swastikas.
Shapiro told the store manager, who pulled it off the shelves immediately. Other stores in the area quickly did the same. She told Los Angeles affiliate KABC, “I saw it immediately. I think I have a good eye. [My Rabbi] couldn’t believe it. I’m still very upset about it, that something like this could be on the market.”
If you’re reading this and are ready and raring to call me out in the comments for being, as the kids would say, “butthurt” about this topic, save it. I more than recognize that this is accidental…probably. Someone on Reddit said it’s not so much a swastika since it resembles a “meander,” which is a design style popular in Ancient Greece. Then again, in the same thread, another Reddit user pointed out that it looks like the symbol of Greece’s Golden Dawn party, which many have described as a neo-Nazi organization.
But that’s neither here nor there. I told you that I’m not offended because I’m Jewish, for once.
No, I’m mainly shocked about how fucking dumb SO MANY PEOPLE had to be for this to get on the fucking shelves of a fucking national chain store. Someone had to design this wrapping paper. Someone then had to approve the design. Someone had to make the decision to send this design to production, and someone had to oversee said production. Then someone had to distribute this product to stores, including Walgreens. Some people at Walgreens had to approve and subsequently buy this product. Then employees at various Walgreens had to put this product on the shelves. Granted, I’m no expert in supply chain economics, but this seems like a BUNCH of levels of people are complete and utter dipshits.
Yes, certain people on certain levels had no choice but to stock this product, as it comes from a higher authority. They were just following orders, after all (I swear to God, that was a cheeky joke, not an overt Nazi allegory).
The fact that not a single person noticed this until a Jewish grandma waltzed into the store is just fucking baffling. Scary to see that people still get away with this kind of shit–even scarier to see how many people don’t notice, or are just completely oblivious.
[via International Business Times]
Image via Wikipedia Commons
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To be fair it took me a few minutes to see it.
Which is why it took a grandma to see it, answering JayTas’s question as to why no one in production noticed (because it’s not noticeable).
It’s like if you look really close at a balloon knot, it kinda looks like an asshole. But most people just say, “Hey, cool, balloons.”
Wow…I will never look at a ballon knot the same. Thanks for ruining THAT for me Boone.
You understand the product design/development was likely done in China by people who don’t even know what a swastika is? And that the Walgreens buyer probably approved a “look” – not this specific design – that the supplier (same Chinese people as above) then used to mix colors/patterns in an assorted case; they probably had an understanding that the print would contain no curse words, dicks, neo-Nazi symbolism, etc. It shipped about the same time they shipped a massive amount of inventory to all domestic retailers who ordered wrap from them (if you’re not familiar with the wrapping paper market, it’s pretty big), so it is unlikely that QC, both in China or domestically, opened every case to check every roll.. That would be like looking for a needle in a haystack, or a penny in a jew’s couch, I’m assuming. Once it got to the store and the case was actually opened, well, you’ve seen the type of talent who works at a Walgreens.. While it is very unfortunate that a sweet old Jewish lady happened to find this roll, and notice the symbol amongst a myriad of other random lines and shapes, you’re just being a butthurt bitch about it..
Very well reasoned. I guess that’s why Tas writes for a living.
I think it’s unfair to assume that the people at Walgreens are any more competent at their jobs than any of us.
Wait, Tas, are you Jewish?
#אשJayTas
Once it was pointed out, I could see it. But I really think people see what they want to see. Kind of like the piece of toast with Jesus’ face. Is Bubbee Shapiro suing?
“Hey guys, you know what would be really funny?”
I had to look at it multiple times before finally finding it. Obviously an accident. Clearly somebody didn’t learn his lesson about writing aritcles expressing his self righteous liberal outrage. The Jesus’ face in toast analogy is spot on. If you try hard enough to be offended…
More to blame on Hallmark’s end. They technically created the design and distributed it.
You’re actually angry about this? Talk about honest mistake, not idiocy. I had to stare at it for a solid minute before I saw it. It really is pathetic how you constantly are searching for people to smear on this site. You know you’re the definition of a bitch when the ease at which you become offended is actually viewed as offensive by others.
I thought Jews were good writers?
You must be new here.