eBay Renames Yellow Star After “Nazi” Complaint

Tell this to the people who do these African American history month and TV commercials. The fact is My mom is Jewish...she doesn't run around acting like everyone owes her something and looking for attention. I have friends who are native american....they don't go around looking for attention. People go through shit....true. But the second we stop making a big deal of it, the sooner its forgotten.

I agree in part. However that is a very fine line. Sure, over dramatizing past events by current generations that had nothing to do with does contribute to perpetuating the issue. But to forget those events altogether would be quite foolish.

I'm sure it's different in other areas of the country. But where I live, for people under a certain age, racism for the most part is simply not an issue. Yeah, acting like someone owes you something because of what happened to your great great grand daddy does nothing but revive issues that need to stay dead. But forgetting entirely only dooms us to some day relive the same ignorance all over again.
 
It's sad to see how people can twist something that is innocent and ordinary into something horrific and extraordinary. To say that the yellow star reminds you of the holocaust is one thing, but to take cause against it is ridiculous! I will admit and can't deny that the atrocities that happened then were at some of the lowest points of our evolution as a society. Now if we cant get past that how will we ever continue on to become better from those times?

If we were to take heed to every persons individual offenses and try to right them we would just continue to offend someone else, and so on and so on. If a Dyslexia (<-- isn't that cruel?:confused:) boy were to to complain to e-bay that he could not read the English language and was offended that they use English on the page, do you think they would do a damn thing? No! More people suffer from Dyslexia today then there are people on the planet that can first hand tell tales of the horrific events went on during the War.

Now, that is extreme and it is just to get my point across, but when do you draw the line people? What is this world coming to? What's next, fat people suing McDonald's for getting them fat... oh wait that did happen.... My bad.
 
The hate in this thread against a guy who survived the Holocaust astounds me. Stop trying to make it seem like 9/11 was even close to the same thing (or anything else that has happened). The Holocaust is unique in history.

Besides the people thinking people should just "get over" such horrific events (as if that's an answer?), Ebay removed this voluntarily. It doesn't matter what you think.
 
Tell this to the people who do these African American history month and TV commercials. The fact is My mom is Jewish...she doesn't run around acting like everyone owes her something and looking for attention. I have friends who are native american....they don't go around looking for attention. People go through shit....true. But the second we stop making a big deal of it, the sooner its forgotten.

what? what would me telling black people anything do? none of those people on any commercial lived through slavery. civil injustice is one thing, living through auschwitz is another. your mom being jewish doesnt have much to do with this either, unless you're both ancient and she was actually in europe during WWII. if so, then disregard that bit i guess.

this isnt the kind of shit we're supposed to "forget", so i dont really understand why you're saying what you're saying.


by saying this stuff its making it seem like im taking the situation a little too seriously.. but thats not my intention.
 
If Ebay chooses to be sensitive to the complaint of a holocaust survivors, however silly a complaint it may be, that is their choice and there's nothing wrong with that. Nobody forced them into it.

I'll buy that; good point.

But I'll never get on this slippery slope of over-sensitivity. I find it very hard to believe that Ebay felt pressure from one man and one man alone. Ebay also fears the end game.
 
I genuinely think I can count on one hand the amount of times I've encountered racism against blacks coming from someone my own age (college age). What I find interesting is that racism against asians is now far more prevalent than against blacks (I am white for reference).
 
I'll never get on this slippery slope of over-sensitivity. I find it very hard to believe that Ebay felt pressure from one man and one man alone. Ebay also fears the end game.

well as supa stated, ebay decided to be considerate for whatever reason. they didnt have to be, but it was good of them to do so regardless.. but it ends there. this isnt setting some precident for ultra-sappy prog liberal bs, your whims over my rights so nobodys feelings get hurt kind of thing, nor is anybody here calling for it to be
 
Crap like this makes it imposable to do anything now a days without offending someone.
 
UMMM, aren't the stars used on eBay 5 point stars? The Jewish star has 6 points.

At least the first award isn't a yellow swastika.

Maybe they could change it to a yellow pentagram.

You forgot they are french.
Evidently not with the resistance.
 
This type of mentality is what has gotten our society to the weak point were are at now.
The Past is the past and that where it needs to stay at. You can also make the argument that social security numbers are the same thing as the serial numbers that the Jew's got tattooed in the concentration camps.

Welcome to Wussy land. Where no one appreciates what they have and complain all the time like girly men. JA!!!
 
I thought the stars that the German's made people wear were, "Stars of David"....a six pointed start. If you're going to make an argument shouldn't it be based on the correct star?:confused:

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I think someone is trying for their 15 minutes of fame....what a lamer. :rolleyes:

Its Juden.
 
Some of you guys act like he took them to court and won a $50 billion lawsuit. sigh.
I'm sure every holocaust survivor thinks about stuff like that if it catches them at the right time. Put yourself in their shoes as if it really happened to yourself and see what you would think...

At a company I worked for ~10 yrs ago, in general conversation I mentioned to a group of co-workers about my "colored" (black) friend about the good times we had growing up. I got pulled into a conference room and almost got fired. When they found out I really didn't know the meaning of it from how it was used back in the 50s and 60s they let me off with a warning. I had no idea what "colored" meant when referring to black people, and the only black woman on the team had filed a complaint against me. I totally didn't mean it that way, but I would call her a racist for thinking I was a racist. Sheesh. So the point, people can be offended about anything. People can interpret a normal sentence into something sexual and turn you into HR when you had actually meant something else. I call them perverts. :p
And You're asian? Wow I know exactly what you mean, prejudice its the name of the game. Where's the freedom now?
 
OMG, yellow star?! HOW DARE THEY OFFEND < 2% of the US population! OUTRAGE! :rolleyes:
 
wtf?!? i think we should send out spaceships to destroy all yellow star in space or put a huge umberlla so we can't see them at all. stupid universe
 
The hate in this thread against a guy who survived the Holocaust astounds me. Stop trying to make it seem like 9/11 was even close to the same thing (or anything else that has happened). The Holocaust is unique in history.

Besides the people thinking people should just "get over" such horrific events (as if that's an answer?), Ebay removed this voluntarily. It doesn't matter what you think.

Is unique... why? Because they were Jews? You racist jerk. What about the million of other ethnicities murdered at the same time, after, or even before fucking WW2? HUH?! What about them?
 
Pretty "deep" topic for a tech forum. I myslef think the person is making mountians out of molehills. But as I never went through the holocaust (has it been established this person did?) or any tramatic thinng like it I dont really feel my opinion on how that persen feels about something is relevent.I do think calling um names, etc is pretty sad, but this is the Internet, par for the course. I dont agree with the person, and a yellow star for sales is just that, a yeallow star for sales. The stars have been around for a long time and this is the first person to complain (maybe not, just the first we have heard)?

I DO THINK E-bay removed it for fear of a lawsuit from the greedy people who have seen this story, not becuase they wanted to just to "be nice". Thats also pretty sad, not even worth of mentioning in the same post as the holocaust, but sad.
 
i dont think this has anything to do with "oversensitivity" or being politically correct. i think this has to do with surviving the fucking holocaust. some people are crippled by getting dumped by some bitch, or losing your job. have any of you survived the holocaust? o rly? then shut up :p

LMFAO

It was 60 years ago. Its a FUCKING STAR. Im sure everytime a holocaust survivor hears someone speaking German they get freaked out too. Should we ban the German language?

Seriously, ENOUGH.
 
Lots of people here are accusing me of hating on the Jews and the guy. I don't hate the fact that he's a Jew, nor do I deny the existence of the holocaust. I dislike when people hang on to the past to garner pity and attention (and wealth) from other people. It's not just the Jews. Every race does it. Every religion does it. Everybody with a handicap does it.

I'm sorry that some madman saw fit to kill 6 million Jews 60 years ago, but I didn't do it.

You're all unique, just like everybody else. Get over it.
 
I'm sorry that some madman saw fit to kill 6 million Jews 60 years ago, but I didn't do it.

And Stalin was responsible for the murder/death of millions more yet no one gives a fuck. Makes you wonder.
 
Is unique... why? Because they were Jews? You racist jerk. What about the million of other ethnicities murdered at the same time, after, or even before fucking WW2? HUH?! What about them?

holocaust is not unique...there are ethnic cleansings before and after, the only minor difference is if you read history Jews sold out Jews, though i'm sure thats happened elsewhere as well.

Move along. Like someone said it's not like the reward is a yellow swastika or something.

and everyone stop being so politically correct...
 
You do know the context of this don't you? The issue came from France, which was occupied by the German's in WWII. They used yellow stars as a discriminatory mark. The complaint was that the lowest ebay user rating was one yellow star. It may seem trite to us, but remember France was occupied by Germany in WWII, so there are people there who did have to wear a yellow star as a mark of discrimination.

Ebay is just reacting as a global company. It's just good business. When GM was trying to sell it's geo line in Latin American the new nova (based on the toyota corolla) sold poorly. No one bothered to think that No Va means (doesn't go) in spanish..lol. Part of being a global brand (ebay) is they need to adapt locally. In this case change a simple yellow star because of a negative connotation in France.
 
Is unique... why? Because they were Jews? You racist jerk. What about the million of other ethnicities murdered at the same time, after, or even before fucking WW2? HUH?! What about them?
The word racist is like the car horn of the english langauge. It is almost never used for its intended purpose.:mad:
 
Agreed, but something as horrific as the Holocaust cannot easily be forgotten by somebody who experienced it first-hand (or see how their parents react to it). How many of you still have a fear this day to an experience you had as a child? How many people have a fear of guns just because they saw somebody get shot? I would bet those experiences pale in comparison to what a Holocaust survivor went through. Tragic experiences do affect different people in different ways. How many war veterans still go through episodes? You guys freak out when somebody says "Vista sucks", so who is overreacting? lol

It is clear that people working at fleabay have more feelings towards others than some of the people in this thread. I am still keeping my boycott on them though. :p
 
Being 1/4 native American, the United States flag reminds me of the horrors of European expansionism into North America, and it offends me greatly, so I want all US flags everywhere removed.
 
Being 1/4 native American, the United States flag reminds me of the horrors of European expansionism into North America, and it offends me greatly, so I want all US flags everywhere removed.

No! I want my scalp back, and maybe I'll think about it :p
 
I know someone who refuses to drive or speak to those who drive a Chrysler, because Nazi germany used the eagle crest (similar to Chryslers wing logo). They guy would go nuts if you parked a Chrysler on his driveway or in front of his house.


People need to get a life.
 
I know someone who refuses to drive or speak to those who drive a Chrysler, because Nazi germany used the eagle crest (similar to Chryslers wing logo). They guy would go nuts if you parked a Chrysler on his driveway or in front of his house.


People need to get a life.

What was the movie where some kid ranted about the BMW logo?

zomg nazis!
 
OK not very PC I know, but it aptly describes the situation.

So this person is going to be offended every Christmas I guess? I guess they will also be very angry when their kid gets a gold star at school? I would also recommend never going out at night and looking UP.... Nazi's are everywhere zomg!

Seriously, its not the star of David, it is just a yellow star. Grow up.
 
Why didn't he just sell or buy more crap to get to the Blue star? He wouldn't have had to deal with this then!:D:rolleyes:
 
Being 1/4 native American, the United States flag reminds me of the horrors of European expansionism into North America, and it offends me greatly, so I want all US flags everywhere removed.

HAHAHAHA!

Nope, he just uses the ones left over from the war. Oh crap, I'm going to Hell for that remark... :eek:

O SNAP! That's a g00d one. LMAO! :D HAHAHAHA!

I had a yellow star in ebay, does that make a me a Juden...no. It means that I got 10 feed back pts. :eek:
 
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