TheGodInAGreyHoodie
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Re: OT: Giants and Jets consider naming rights of stadium to company tied to Nazis
I am Jewish.
I won't buy a German car. My folks were disappointed when my sister bought a VW. But mom consumes a Bayer aspirin every day for her heart, and I worked for three years for a German company (in the US) that had made weapons during the war (and I used part of that money to buy a chevy that was made in Canada)
There was a great debate in 1960's in Israel over whether they would buy some German tanks. In the end they bought them because they needed the tanks and nobody else was willing to sell to them. W/o them Israel would have lost the 6 day war.
I saw more German cars in Israel when I visited (as a %) than I see in the US.
Personally I don't see a big deal in naming of the stadium. If some neo-Nazis had ponied up enough cash to name it Hitler memorial stadium it would be a different story.
If a couple of fans don't want to attend someone else will buy the tickets.
I won't buy a VW or Benz as a point of principle. But I don't refuse to ride in the car of friends who have them.
This seems a bit over the top to me.
My boss, who is Jewish, says he will never buy a Mercedes Benz becuase they profited from being a preferred supplier of vehicles to the Nazis. I guess the same could probably be said for almost any other German company in existance then and still around now.
My dad is a WWII vet and feels the same way (or even worse) about Mitsubishi, who of course manufactured the infamous Japanese Zero, used in kamakaze bombings.
I guess I can fault either one- I didn't suffer from losing ancestors to Hitler's brutality or watch fellow soldiers die in kamakaze attacks.
I am Jewish.
I won't buy a German car. My folks were disappointed when my sister bought a VW. But mom consumes a Bayer aspirin every day for her heart, and I worked for three years for a German company (in the US) that had made weapons during the war (and I used part of that money to buy a chevy that was made in Canada)
There was a great debate in 1960's in Israel over whether they would buy some German tanks. In the end they bought them because they needed the tanks and nobody else was willing to sell to them. W/o them Israel would have lost the 6 day war.
I saw more German cars in Israel when I visited (as a %) than I see in the US.
Personally I don't see a big deal in naming of the stadium. If some neo-Nazis had ponied up enough cash to name it Hitler memorial stadium it would be a different story.
If a couple of fans don't want to attend someone else will buy the tickets.
I won't buy a VW or Benz as a point of principle. But I don't refuse to ride in the car of friends who have them.
This seems a bit over the top to me.