Amazon pulls New York subway ads with Nazi insignia and Imperial Japan's rising sun

[yuiyoshida]

NEW YORK —

It’s the land of the free and Americans don’t like Nazi insignia laid over the stars and stripes. Nor do they want to sit on it.

A furious backlash has prompted Amazon to pull ads for a television show that featured the Nazi German eagle and Imperial Japan’s rising sun on the New York subway.

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority allowed the company to color seats on the Times Square shuttle with the symbols laid over the US flag to promote “The Man in the High Castle.”

The show, which premiered last month, is set in the 1960s as if America had lost World War II—occupied by Nazi Germany in the east and the Empire of Japan in the west.

http://www.japantoday.com/category/world/view/amazon-pulls-new-york-subway-ads-with-nazi-insignia-and-imperial-japans-rising-sun

[Reter]

1. Oh please

It's a TV show. I don't see any problem at call. Shame on Amazon for the cave-in.

[haikugal]

2. It's a series, and a damned good one! So sad we live in such a time of over reaction and

PC overdrive. Disgusting.

[951-Riverside]

3. Aaaaah TRIGGER WARNING! TRIGGER WARNING!

*curls up in a ball and sucks thumb*