http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Council worker with offensive car sticker - what would you do? en Sun, 31 May 2026 16:58:57 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18114#post-259959 Fri, 08 Sep 2017 16:48:14 +0000 AKen 259959@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Agreed. Politics taking a nasty turn there. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18114#post-259947 Fri, 08 Sep 2017 15:45:23 +0000 ih 259947@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Some Poles may set alarm bells going too - see current political shenanigans in Poland. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18114#post-259943 Fri, 08 Sep 2017 15:35:13 +0000 AKen 259943@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Guy might have been Polish. Some of the traditional Polish crosses may set alarm bells ringing here but lack the same connotations in Poland. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18114#post-259932 Fri, 08 Sep 2017 14:35:32 +0000 kaputnik 259932@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Yes. There's a whole heap of visually similar crosses that have multiple different meanings depending on if you're into Christian religion/Nordic paganism/motorcycling/white power or any other reasons. Some (lots of) people pick a tattoo design because they like it and no other reason and never bother to research what it might mean to someone else. While it may set off an instant alarm bell about the wearers beliefs and opinions, a cross on its own doesn't necessarily mean anything untoward.</p> <p>If a council worker turns up at your house or place of business or education or whatever in the course of their duties with something overtly racist/fascist for which there's no other good explanation, that's an entirely different matter. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18114#post-259806 Thu, 07 Sep 2017 17:35:25 +0000 crowriver 259806@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Nazi cross? No such thing.</p> <p>There is a cross which was/is awarded to the German military as a medal. Also the emblem of the current Luftwaffe.</p> <p>So, it may have offended you, but I dare to suggest you may have got hold of the wrong end of the stick (or cross).</p> <p>If I were you, I'd chalk this up to experience and perhaps do more research into symbolic imagery... :) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18114#post-259802 Thu, 07 Sep 2017 17:28:18 +0000 newtoit 259802@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Maltese cross is also used by Malteser international, which is a German charity similar to the Red Cross. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18114#post-259799 Thu, 07 Sep 2017 17:22:52 +0000 I were right about that saddle 259799@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I've got stickers on my car and they're nobody else's business. Same goes here. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18114#post-259798 Thu, 07 Sep 2017 17:19:03 +0000 ih 259798@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Something called Choppers.com seems to use this symbol.</p> <p><a href="http://www.choppers.com/iron_cross.asp" rel="nofollow">http://www.choppers.com/iron_cross.asp</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18114#post-259797 Thu, 07 Sep 2017 17:17:15 +0000 unhurt 259797@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Not sure how you would know for sure it's his own car, either? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18114#post-259794 Thu, 07 Sep 2017 17:14:52 +0000 Baldcyclist 259794@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I would do nothing. Whilst being extremely unpalatable, there is nothing in our law which makes the wearing or displaying of these symbols illegal.</p> <p>People are allowed to be an *rse on their own time, wheather liberally minded people agree with them or not. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18114#post-259791 Thu, 07 Sep 2017 17:12:19 +0000 unhurt 259791@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Iron Cross?</p> <p>Now back in use: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Cross#Post.E2.80.93World_War_II" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Cross#Post.E2.80.93World_War_II</a></p> <p>Context and what (if anything) is in the middle are both kind of relevant mind... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18114#post-259783 Thu, 07 Sep 2017 16:57:39 +0000 ih 259783@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>If it wasn't a swastika, what kind of cross was it? Why was it specifically Nazi? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18114#post-259781 Thu, 07 Sep 2017 16:51:40 +0000 jamesire 259781@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Was cycling away from ASDA in Leith this afternoon when I saw a man wearing a City of Edinburgh Council vest getting into an Astra with a Nazi cross sticker on the back. Then drove off (smoking, I might add) with young kid in the car. </p> <p>I should point out that the cross symbol did not have a Swastika in the middle, so perhaps a mere sign of his keen interest in Germanic military history. But bigotry seems more likely.</p> <p>What would you do? </p>