Walmart ad compared expansion limits to Nazism

[flygal]

http://money.cnn.com/2005/06/10/news/fortune500/walmart.reut/index.htm

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Protect Flagstaff's Future, the group that took out the ad, is financed by Wal-Mart, which is based in Bentonville, Ark. The retailer itself approved the ad, Moore said.

"Should we let government tell us what we can read? Of course not," the ad said. "So why should we allow local government to limit where we shop?"

The ad drew complaints from the Anti-Defamation League, a national organization that works to stop defamation of Jewish people and others, and Wake Up Wal-Mart, a consumer group critical of the company's labor practices.

"They were comparing the actions of a city council to the Nazis," said Bill Straus, Arizona regional director for the Anti-Defamation League.

[applegrove]

1. In honor of Quebec "bye bye mon cowboy - adieu mon rodeo"

:rofl:

[applegrove]

6. We Democrats have been noticing the comparison to the Nazis and

fascism. It seems that the people on the right cannot say it enough in these last weeks.

We must have been very successful in identifying their patterns if they all copy us. It must have hurt them a great deal. The truth always does with such types. So now we see the coalition on the far right try and diffuse by using our words. Doesn't work. We are not Nazis and propaganda users. We didn't study & admire Hitler. We didn't blame Woodrow Wilson for WWII (they do even though he had been dead for 20 years). They are the type of Disraeli conservatives who cannot win elections without propaganda & creating tribalism/patriotism to get people to vote for something other than their own economic best interests. And they know it.

[progressivebydesign]

2. Check out the story on the Jewish Republican Coalition on DU today

This Walmart ad pretty much sums up why they only have a handful of members in that coalition. The republicans don't get it.

[Bill McBlueState]

3. stupid

"Should we let government tell us what we can read? Of course not," the ad said. "So why should we allow local government to limit where we shop?"

If this line of argument works, it's because of the right-wing attack on government over the past thirty years. Thinking people know that democratic government, especially local government, is an expression of the people's will. If local government limits Suck-Mart, it's because the people don't want that trashy hellhole cluttering up the landscape.

Right-wingers want us to believe that government is some alien force that counters the will of the people. Ironically, while local governments are still accountable, the right has turned the federal government into exactly that.

[RaleighNCDUer]

4. A more honest counter-ad could show WalMart compared

with Nazi's boarding up Jewish-owned businesses.

WalMart undercuts local economies by offering low prices, and once the local competitors are gone they are there to pick up the unemployed workers for their low wage/no befefit jobs.

Just a thought.

[Village Idiot]

5. What a batch of pathetic liars.

"...the company "did not know of the photo's historical context until after the fact."

Yeah.....OK.....riiiiiight....

"How were we supposed to know that a picture of NAZIS, burning BOOKS could POSSIBLY be perceived as OBJECTIONABLE?"

I can believe that - Wal-Mart's presskorps is probably staffed by Holocaust deniers...

And not that Wal-Mart would EVER consider this kind of CENSORSHIP itself:

Example 1:

"...In 2002, it pulled from its shelves a pregnant doll. In 1996, it dropped Sheryl Crow's self-titled album because of a song suggesting that Wal-Mart sells guns to children..."

Example 2:

"Wal-Mart canceled its order for (John Stewart's book) America: The Book after learning there were naked Supreme Court judges lurking inside."


Not only Nazi apologists, but HYPOCRITICAL Nazi apologists!!! Way to go WallyWorld!!!

http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2004-10-19-stewart-book_x.htm

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