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Re: Color Change - color names
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Fri, 9 Apr 2004 00:12:53 GMT
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"Kelly McKiernan" <kelly@anagrafyxx.com> wrote in message news:Hx9zyp.13J@lugnet.com...
> In lugnet.lego, David Laswell wrote:
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> > Why stop there? Call it Nazi Death-Slaver Grey and you get the whole
> > spectrum.
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> OK, now that's just over the line. Assigning a color as "Nazi" is bad enough,
> but adding "Death Slaver" to it pushes it over. Don't like the color change?
> Fine. But I personally take exception when someone associates a relatively minor
> change in LEGO materials to WWII Nazi slavery. It's simply not appropriate when
> discussing a [toy], especially one with a massive market share in Germany as
> well as the rest of Europe.
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> Kelly
Isn't it even worse when certain Nazis take a few newsgroup posts a little too seriously? ;) It's not like someone's really going
to connect LEGO with Nazis.
--
Markham Carroll
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| (...) OK, now that's just over the line. Assigning a color as "Nazi" is bad enough, but adding "Death Slaver" to it pushes it over. Don't like the color change? Fine. But I personally take exception when someone associates a relatively minor change (...) (20 years ago, 6-May-04, to lugnet.lego, FTX)
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