Allianz Stadium? Simon Wiesenthal would not approve

What personal crack?

If the point is something other than "This company helped fund the Nazi movement" then I still don't get the point. My point is so did Mercedes-Benz. So did several other companies. I just still don't get why this one is any worse or any bigger of a deal than any other.

Are you against every company that ever funded the Nazi movement? Or is it just this one? THAT'S what I've been trying to find out.

 

This is making my head hurt.

I think I'll stay away from the Bayer aspirin, though.

 

Thank you.

 

Provides sort of an interesting ethical quandry, though: Would you rather people drove, say, American cars that got a lot fewer miles to the gallon instead?

(And I realize that there are Japanese cars out there that get good mileage and probably don't have any kind of historical problems, but, still, just a thought I had.)

 

Actually, Dixie, there are Jews who drive VWs (Mercedes, too, IJAG). That's their prerogative, or at least a subject for a different thread.

Try a Southern frame here: If the Georgia Dome was negotiating with Quaker to use the name Aunt Jemima Stadium, would you think that was acceptable? Smart? Well, actively profiting from genocide is even worse than offensive stereotypes.

 

Naming the stadium after Allianz was fine at first, but then it went too far.

 

Did Bayer actually work with the Nazis, maybe supply drugs for concentration camps? If not, then the comparison doesn't fit.

 

I knew that, although not to that level of detail. But at what point are the companies allowed to try and carry on normal functions? There are a bunch of insurance companies who made nice profits insuring slaves back in the day. If one of them wanted to buy naming rights to the Georgia Dome, would it provoke outrage? (And I actually came up with this before waterytart's post. Kinda scary.)

 

Thank you.

 

Bayer performed chemical experiments on the prisoners.

 

Someone would be offended by Aunt Jemima Stadium? Really?

 

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Bayer executive Fritz ter Meer was sentenced to seven years in prison by the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal