Nazi-inspired TV advertising removed from New York City subway

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Ads featuring Nazi imagery pulled from New York City subway

NEW YORK (AP) — An ad campaign that featured Nazi imagery has been pulled from the New York City subway system.

Seats on the 42nd Street shuttle between Times Square and Grand Central Terminal were wrapped in Nazi images to promote an Amazon video series called "The Man in the High Castle." The show depicts the aftermath of World War II as if the Axis powers triumphed.

The region's transit network, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, approved the ads, which first appeared earlier this month.

The agency also initially defended the ads, saying they met its guidelines.

But many public officials condemned them. Mayor Bill de Blasio called them "irresponsible and offensive."

Officials confirmed Wednesday that Gov. Andrew Cuomo ordered them removed.


-- (c) Associated Press 2015-11-26

[NickJ]

The History Channel does it's bit by keeping old Adolph current with all it's shows. I am waiting until the Search for his Socks airs.

[Usernames]

de Blasio is simply an illiterate savage. The Man in the High Castle is a very good sf novel. The Amazon adaptation is not so good, however, as I've struggled to get past episode 3.

[arjunadawn]

Never made it past season 1.

[reptile91602]

I was just planning to start watching it. Sounds like I might be dissapointed.

[samran]

The axis of time series of books were really good.

Check them out.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weapons_of_Choice_(book)

[Usernames]

I was just planning to start watching it. Sounds like I might be dissapointed.

All the episodes are available through Kickass.

[JHolmesJr]

Ban the series too....good subject matter, terrible execution.

[chilli42]

Large influential Jewish community in NY. They have zero sense of humor about this stuff. The rest of the white communities in the area are so PC that it's unbearable

[Seastallion]

Large influential Jewish community in NY. They have zero sense of humor about this stuff. The rest of the white communities in the area are so PC that it's unbearable

I don't think it's a lack of a sense of humour, rather it's a desire to keep alive the "we are victims" tactic.

Images of Nazi stuff in advertisements for a story about 1940's Axis is just what it is described as and should not have been censored. It's promoting a story, not Nazi'ism.

[IAMHERE]

It would seem the Jewish have more political klout than Amazon.

[Usernames]

It would seem the Jewish have more political klout than Amazon.

Cuomo and de Blasio are Italian. And de Blasio is a pro-Sandinista communist.

[Jingthing]

Large influential Jewish community in NY. They have zero sense of humor about this stuff. The rest of the white communities in the area are so PC that it's unbearable

Total BS.

American humor would be the pits without Jews.

It's a dramatic show about a dystopian future. Not a comedy. Not promoting Nazism in any way.

In my opinion the vast majority of American Jews would have no problem with the ads or the show (and large numbers are no doubt WATCHING the show).

Edited November 27, 2015 by Jingthing

[Seastallion]

It would seem the Jewish have more political klout than Amazon.

Cuomo and de Blasio are Italian. And de Blasio is a pro-Sandinista communist.

Does that mean they can't be pressured or influenced by Jews?

[MobileContent]

Would that happened on a BTS in Bangkok, the forum would be flooded with hundreds of posts explaining Thainess.

[geriatrickid]

Large influential Jewish community in NY. They have zero sense of humor about this stuff. The rest of the white communities in the area are so PC that it's unbearable

Simplistic explanation, but typical of TVF.

Try this on for size: NYC s where there are multiple respectable universities with history departments and faculties where courses such as media ethics are taught. There's always someone having a hissy fit about an imagined offense. NYC is also home to the UN and the subway line runs through NYC's cultural heartland. Much of Germany's best and brightest performing artists either ended up dead or refugees. I can see some folks being sensitive. If Sondheim had been in Germany he have been issued a pink triangle,

NYC also has one of the highest populations of secular and assimilated jews who know little of their own heritage or religion. Unlike some other religious and ethnic groups, they have been absorbed into the melting pot of the USA. It is highly unlikely that the jewish community would have taken to the streets burning and looting. Did they do it with serious films like Schindler's list or comedies like the Producers? No they did not. Remember Hogan's Heroes? Did the jewish community protest over that? Sgt Shultz - John Banner was a jewish refugee, Werner Klemperer's father had been an accomplished musician who lost his job because he was jewish and had been given refuge in the USA, and there was Robert Clary - Lebeau who had survived a concentration camp.