Happy Saint Patrick's Day!

[KG4CGC]

And interesting Saint... I'm not much on Saints, but I'll take this one. He is the patron saint of drug addicts, political prisoners, families, journalists, prisoners and the pro-life movement. Pope John Paul II declared him the “The Patron Saint of Our Difficult Century”.

From: http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/...phy/Kolbe.html


Maximilian Kolbe (January 8, 1894–August 14, 1941), also known as Maksymilian or Massimiliano Maria Kolbe and “Apostle of Consecration to Mary,” born as Rajmund Kolbe, was a Polish Conventual Franciscan friar who volunteered to die in place of a stranger in the Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz in Poland.

My Grandmother lost all of her Aunts, Uncles and most of her cousins at Auschwitz. Some were machine gunned before the alies liberated the camp. Those who survived were slaves for those who manufactured goods for Hitler War Machine. This is why I boycott German made products...not even a spark plug. My grandmother hated Germans until the day she died.

During a war it's one thing but after a war and 65 years later, I'd have to say leans towards racist.

[KA9MOT]

During a war it's one thing but after a war and 65 years later, I'd have to say leans towards racist.

Racist? I have to much respect for you to call your statement stupid, so I won't. Germans are the same race as I. We are Caucasion. That is our race. Being German is a Nationality, You'll see that I am also part German. I am not against the Germans. The people who commited these crimes are mostly dead. I am against those companies that used my relatives as slaves to profit and are now multi national conglomerates. Would I buy something from a company that I knew used child labor? No. It is the same difference. It is why I do not drink Coke products. Coca Cola was a Nazi collaborator and helped Hitler make a new soft drink when political pressure in the US forced them to close their German plants and Hitler wanted something for his troops to drink. They called that product Fanta.

I have nothing against the German people. I have a problem with the Nazi, which was political extremism much like what is exhibited here. Different values but the same feverishness. Nazi is not a race either. My grandmother, who was a young adult during WWII and told us many stories recanted by her cousins about the terrible stuff that happened to them. To her, all Germans were Nazis, and perhaps that is true of the Germans of her generation.

Racist....indeed!

Race

²    [reys] Show IPA
noun1.a group of persons related by common descent or heredity.

2.a population so related.

3.Anthropology .a.any of the traditional divisions of humankind, thecommonest being the caucasian, Mongoloid, and Negro,characterized by supposedly distinctive and universalphysical characteristics: no longer in technical use.

b.an arbitrary classification of modern humans,sometimes, especially formerly, based on any or acombination of various physical characteristics, as skincolor, facial form, or eye shape, and now frequentlybased on such genetic markers as blood groups.

c.a human population partially isolated reproductivelyfrom other populations, whose members share a greaterdegree of physical and genetic similarity with oneanother than with other humans.



4.a group of tribes or peoples forming an ethnic stock: theSlavic race.

5.any people united by common history, language, culturaltraits, etc.: the Dutch race.

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adjective11.of or pertaining to the races of humankind.










rac·ist

  [rey-sist] Show IPA
noun1.a person who believes in racism, the doctrine that a certainhuman race is superior to any or all others.


adjective2.of or like racists or racism: racist policies; racist attitudes.




rac·ism

   [rey-siz-uhm] Show IPA
noun1.a belief or doctrine that inherent differences among thevarious human races determine cultural or individualachievement, usually involving the idea that one's own race is superior and has the right to rule others.

2.a policy, system of government, etc., based upon orfostering such a doctrine; discrimination.

3.hatred or intolerance of another race or other races.




From Dictionary.com.

[KG4CGC]

Racist? I have to much respect for you to call your statement stupid, so I won't. Germans are the same race as I. We are Caucasion. That is our race. Being German is a Nationality, You'll see that I am also part German. I am not against the Germans. The people who commited these crimes are mostly dead. I am against those companies that used my relatives as slaves to profit and are now multi national conglomerates. Would I buy something from a company that I knew used child labor? No. It is the same difference. It is why I do not drink Coke products. Coca Cola was a Nazi collaborator and helped Hitler make a new soft drink when political pressure in the US forced them to close their German plants and Hitler wanted something for his troops to drink. They called that product Fanta.

I have nothing against the German people. I have a problem with the Nazi, which was political extremism much like what is exhibited here. Different values but the same feverishness. Nazi is not a race either. My grandmother, who was a young adult during WWII and told us many stories recanted by her cousins about the terrible stuff that happened to them. To her, all Germans were Nazis, and perhaps that is true of the Germans of her generation.

Racist....indeed!

Race

²    [reys] Show IPA
noun1.a group of persons related by common descent or heredity.

2.a population so related.

3.Anthropology .a.any of the traditional divisions of humankind, thecommonest being the caucasian, Mongoloid, and Negro,characterized by supposedly distinctive and universalphysical characteristics: no longer in technical use.

b.an arbitrary classification of modern humans,sometimes, especially formerly, based on any or acombination of various physical characteristics, as skincolor, facial form, or eye shape, and now frequentlybased on such genetic markers as blood groups.

c.a human population partially isolated reproductivelyfrom other populations, whose members share a greaterdegree of physical and genetic similarity with oneanother than with other humans.



4.a group of tribes or peoples forming an ethnic stock: theSlavic race.

5.any people united by common history, language, culturaltraits, etc.: the Dutch race.

EXPAND
adjective11.of or pertaining to the races of humankind.










rac·ist

  [rey-sist] Show IPA
noun1.a person who believes in racism, the doctrine that a certainhuman race is superior to any or all others.


adjective2.of or like racists or racism: racist policies; racist attitudes.




rac·ism

   [rey-siz-uhm] Show IPA
noun1.a belief or doctrine that inherent differences among thevarious human races determine cultural or individualachievement, usually involving the idea that one's own race is superior and has the right to rule others.

2.a policy, system of government, etc., based upon orfostering such a doctrine; discrimination.

3.hatred or intolerance of another race or other races.




From Dictionary.com.

I see where you're coming from but your original statement didn't say any of those things.
Now as for avoiding companies for this reason or that, what about Mitsubishi?

Back to avoiding companies, how? You have to avoid Ford because Henry Ford was not only a Rode Wearing Racist but he was a supreme asshole as well.
One of the owners (former) of DHL it is said, is a child molester.
When does a person OR a company repay its debt to society? The general rule seems to be never with regard to people.

[KA9MOT]

WV6Zed, sorry for crapping in your thread.