Amazon is pushing the boundaries of when it’s OK to spread Nazi propaganda in 2015.
Previously, it had basically been never.
But over the past few days, New Yorkers have been greeted by Axis of Evil symbolism on the 42nd Street subway shuttle, including a Nazi iron cross within an American Flag as well as a WWII-era Rising Sun flag of the Japanese empire.
The decor is part of a pretty, um, intense marketing campaign to promote Amazon’s original series ‘The Man in the High Castle’, an adaptation of a Philip K. Dick novel that imagines America lost WWII and is now ruled by the Greater Nazi Reich and Japanese Pacific States.
Amazon did manage to keep things around Scotch Bonnet on the Scoville scale when it could have easily turned into a Carolina Reaper situation had they displayed full swastikas.
Still, it’s not hard to see why many were not impressed by the retail imperialist giant’s decision to promote a TV show using emblems of mass murder-fuelled fascism.
42nd St shuttle to #TimesSquare covered in Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan symbols for @amazon ad. Is this ok? pic.twitter.com/ysJ3m0UIPT
— Katherine Lam (@byKatherineLam) November 23, 2015
I would feel uncomfortable sitting in a subway car with the American flag emblazoned all over it, let alone a Nazi symbol.
— Dan Connor (@thestereobus) November 23, 2015
Pretty wild that in Germany, Nazi emblems are banned. But here in the US, Amazon is using them for NYC subway ads. https://t.co/ExltwNxc3r
— Stefan Constantine (@WhatTheBit) November 23, 2015
so @amazon advertises using nazi propaganda and @realDonaldTrump is steadily on his way to becoming Hitler MM SURE DO LOVE THIS HELL HOLE — Slime Pet Kiri (@MallowyGoodness) November 24, 2015
Probably a safe bet that this particular piece of work will not win a Clio. Perhaps even safer to assume the marketing stunt will likely be pulled before its planned December 14th end.
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