"For Sweden" (rallybeetle) 03/06/2014 at 21:47 • Filed to: Ad Watch, Badvertising, VW, Volkswagen Passat, Volkswagen, Passat

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I just saw a Volkswagen Passat commercial that used the word schlep. Of all the brands to use Yiddish words in marketing, VW should not.

beardsbynelly - Rikerbeard > For Sweden 03/06/2014 at 21:49

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but early VW's were built by the Jewish :/

brell > For Sweden 03/06/2014 at 21:50

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why?

For Sweden > beardsbynelly - Rikerbeard 03/06/2014 at 21:50

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Doesn't matter; Nazi car

vdub_nut: scooter snob > For Sweden 03/06/2014 at 21:53

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FINALLY AN EXCUSE TO USE THIS

Coty > For Sweden 03/06/2014 at 21:53

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:eye roll:

For Sweden > vdub_nut: scooter snob 03/06/2014 at 21:54

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I knew someone would make a movie about VWVortex

For Sweden > brell 03/06/2014 at 21:55

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because Nazi Car

You wouldn't see Mitsubishi film a commercial in Nanking.

Jagvar > For Sweden 03/06/2014 at 21:56

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Ray just pointed it out on the Facetubes, actually.

The Opponaut formerly known as MattP123 > For Sweden 03/06/2014 at 21:58

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Yea, if anybody should use the word, it's Lexus.

For Sweden > Jagvar 03/06/2014 at 21:58

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Makes sense. Ray is #6 on the list of Jews in Motoring .

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ihbase > For Sweden 03/06/2014 at 22:06

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Really? Sixty years later, a global marketplace and multinational corporations, and you want to make THIS the issue? That is a very slippery slope and once you start down, you will find most industrial entities along the way to the bottom. FoMoCo? Mitsubishi? Daimler-Benz? If you are going to start, you had better have an idea of where it is appropriate to draw the line, I am not certain that it is possible to define, with any reason, where that line is. Respectfully- Michael

For Sweden > ihbase 03/06/2014 at 22:06

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Last time I checked, Ford wasn't founded to make cars for Hitler.

ihbase > For Sweden 03/06/2014 at 22:13

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Un huh… By the way, how do you feel about American industrialists who were, allegedly, Nazi sympathizers? How about Luftwaffe aircraft motor builders? You are not incorrect- just arbitrary. -Michael

coqui70 > For Sweden 03/06/2014 at 22:15

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Frankly I think our Jewish brothers are more worried about Iran right now. Of course damn you now you've made me go into the inappropriate part of my sick-sick mind ... a truly wrong commercial would follow Toyota's timeline example, except the first frames would have slave laborers whistling while they work building "People's Cars", then switching to a shot of Tiger tanks rolling out of the same factory ... followed by the good Eng. Dr. bribing allied officials to let him get out of jail ... shortly thereafter trying to remove bloodstains from the factory floor so Beetle production can resume ... see what happens!

For Sweden > ihbase 03/06/2014 at 22:15

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Allegedly != supplying the Nazi war machine

Luftwaffe aircraft motor builders = supplying the Nazi war machine

lucky's pepper > ihbase 03/06/2014 at 22:26

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Thanks for a bit of sanity. Any German company that was in existence during the war played a part in the German war effort, ESPECIALLY THE CAR COMPANIES. Just because the corporation was founded by an evil regime, the current Volkswagen is no more or less complicit in the holocaust then Opel, BMW, Mercedes, etc.

ihbase > For Sweden 03/06/2014 at 22:31

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Ok… So you are not going to own anything built by a company associated with WWII industrial interests EXCEPT for (certain) US and UK companies? Good luck drawing that line in 2014.

I do not think you understand the implications of what you are saying. If you take the generally accepted position that Henry was an anti-Semite, then, according to your position, you will not buy a Ford. And if you accept that BMW built aircraft motors and Daimler-Benz built trucks for the Nazis, you are pretty much out of the market for a German car. Next, you have the Japanese industrialists. How do you feel about the bombing of Hawaii and the death march? And let's not forget to mention Fiat. (Lemme guess, you LOVE Ferraris, right?) By the way, what sins have the new owners of Jaguar committed? Do you think the interests behind the Chinese Volvo money are moralists?

Finally- from your perch on high, how do the hands of US industrials look in the Post-WWII era? Squeaky clean?

So, like I said… between you fingers rests a 2014 pen attempting to draw an arbitrary line through 1945. I commend the heart- but critique the intellectual consistency.

Nobel? Perhaps, but if you take your task seriously, you will never again sleep through the night in peace. And, I doubt, you will find any consistent way to determine which horrible contributions to death can or can not be overlooked.

Perhaps I am only excusing my own obligation to boycott those interests with whom I disagree. But in the age of the multinational, I am not certain that there is any allegiance, anywhere, beyond market share and stock value.

-Michael

For Sweden > ihbase 03/06/2014 at 22:33

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Not if they use Yiddish words in their advertising.

ihbase > For Sweden 03/06/2014 at 22:46

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Oh. A language ban for certain entities. Got it. -Michael

blargolapse1 > For Sweden 03/06/2014 at 23:16

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The current company is so far removed from the Nazi era that your whining and bitching is nothing more than comical. Grow up.

ihbase > lucky's pepper 03/07/2014 at 00:48

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I agree. And if you start down that road, no doubt US corps have played a role in some horrific historical events. Would FOR SWEDEN prohibit Japanese from speaking English? Germans from speaking French? For better or worse, he has the sublime and righteous peace of mind of seeing the world through one very narrow prism. -Michael

lucky's pepper > ihbase 03/07/2014 at 07:40

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Well said.