Jews bitch about (vaguely) swastika shaped retirement home

Oh for fucks sake

I haven't got an anti semitic bone in my body, but I am getting fed up with the continual milking of the Holocaust by certain voluminous factions within Jewish communities. It's become a club with which to bludgeon people into silence or make them do their bidding.



[?=Read]Ala. Building Can't Shake Swastika Shape

Friday, March 14, 2008 8:15 AM EDT
The Associated Press
By JAY REEVES Associated Press Writer

DECATUR, Ala. (AP) — From the ground, the Wesley Acres Methodist retirement home looks like any other building. But fly over in an airplane, and the outline is unmistakable: It's one big swastika.
Prompted by complaints from a Jewish activist, the agency that owns the government-funded building is planning to alter its shape to disguise the Nazi symbol. The move comes just a few years after a $1 million design modification meant to quiet similar complaints from a U.S. senator.
"The difficulty is there are a limited number of options for fixing a building that has been there for some time," said Mike Giles, counsel for the Methodist Homes Corp. of Alabama and Northwest Florida. "We have to come up with a way to fix an appearance that we want solved and not hurt our residents."
Wesley Acres provides government-subsidized housing for 117 low-income people ages 62 and above. Most have no reason to suspect their hallways take on a sinister shape.
The one-story building, designed in the mid-1970s and completed in 1980, underwent a $1 million alteration in 2001 with funding from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development following complaints by Democratic Sen. Howell Heflin, who has since died. But the addition of two wings did little to hide the offensive shape, and in some ways accentuates it.
Options for the new renovations include the addition of covered porches or other outdoor areas.
The latest push to rid the landscape of the broken cross shape follows complaints from Avrahaum Segol, the same Israeli-American researcher who last fall helped publicize a swastika-shaped barracks at Naval Base Coronado in San Diego. The Navy said it would spend about $600,000 to alter the building, which opened in the 1960s, but the work has not yet been done.
Segol calls the Alabama retirement home a "sister swastika" to the building in California and says they were both part of a tangled, government-funded conspiracy to honor Nazis.
Segol claims the swastika shape of Wesley Acres in Decatur pays homage to the German scientists who came to nearby Huntsville after World War II and designed the rockets that put Americans on the moon.
Methodist Homes' Giles said Segol's conspiracy claims are ridiculous. The building was originally designed to be much larger, he said, and cutbacks resulted in a shape that resembled the four-armed swastika used as the symbol of German Nazis during World War II.
"It was certainly not intentional," Giles said.
The shape of the retirement center is evident in satellite photos available on the Internet. But it is located in a residential section in a city with few tall buildings, and many in Decatur have no idea Wesley Acres resembles a swastika.
Giles said any changes to the building must be relatively inexpensive since the agency lacks money for an elaborate solution. Planners are considering modifications, he said, "so that from the air it takes your eye away from what was originally there."
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"Milk" the Holocaust? Get off it bro.

Right.

Kick all the old folks into the streets, raze the building, and then tell the activist to shut the fuck up and find somewhere else for the old folks to live.

Well, that's more than "vaguely" swastika-shaped, that's EXACTLY swastika-shaped.

I'd love to see the "you are here" posters in tha halls!

Thing that puzzles me is I'm pretty sure I remember the last fuss about this, and the story mentions 'modifications' made to try to remedy the situation.
Didn't work very well, did they?

If they'd made the wings in the opposite direction, it would have at least been a reverse swastika (Hindu good luck symbol).

I wonder if the center section opens up to reveal a v-2 launch platform.

Would it show the location of the ovens, or is that privileged information for the staff only?

Well, the modifications are probably the added wings on the (picture-wise) top right and bottom left arms: They each have one angle more than a nazi swastika, and than the other two arms. But I agree it doesn't change the shape much.

The Hindu symbol goes either way, depending on exactly what context it's being used in.

Same with the various Buddhist and Shintoist usages.

I'm pretty sure you're right about what the "modifications" were. What a waste! If the building needed an extension to increase capacity that's one thing, but if the intention of those modifications was really to make the building not look like a swastika then a lot of people need to be fired.

And as we say in the business, I've been flying the 'Hebrew Highway' the past couple of days... (that would be the FL-NY and NY-FL trips...)

Sure the building is kind of vague, but really was the Panther tank in the parking lot really needed?

I'm confused. I remember seeing that exact picture in a post a while back, but it was military quarters.

I think that was a similar building in California IIRC.

http://www.switched.com/2007/09/26/google-earth-uncovers-swastika-shaped-government-building/

Because it is a fairly practical way to lay out a space to allow for natural lighting to the maximum number of rooms AND have access to the lawns on the grounds for the landscapers.

It's a good thing the symbol on their flag wasn't a square. No buildings that look like squares from above could exist.

It's a good thing the symbol on their flag wasn't a circle. We couldn't live on Earth anymore.

Stupid fucking architect.

Exactly.

Geez. What's next? Are they going to protest a Neolithic Indian art exhibit claiming that Stone Age Hindus were anti-semitic?

teh jooz are always whining and bitching about something. No wonder Schicklgruber tried to exterminate them.

Well, the more complex a shape gets, the less that argument makes sense, and a swastika is not a square or a circle.

That said, this is entirely silly to begin with. The shape of the building is, as Volpone noted, a particularly practical one for meeting certain valid concerns, and for that reason the fact that it's a swastika shaped building should never have bothered anyone much, and that anyone thought those extensions would make a difference one way or another is a sign that the epidemic of repeatedly dropping babies on their heads hasn't sufficiently abated.

That's nonsense. It's like saying an icosagon (which is what it is) is scarier than a dodecagon or a triangle, all else being equal symbolically.

In block letters, capital "E" is a dodecagon. Scary!

And if we would find planets or any kind of shape created by a simple natural process that looks like an "E", I would be very surprised. So scary? No. But recognizable? Yes.

I see that marathon's being exceedingly and deliberately silly and trollish as usual. Sheesh. What a maroon. Next he'll be saying how unfair it is that an architectural firm specializing in circularly circumscribed pentagram shaped buildings gets no buisiness from the catholic church, or how anyone who complains about a seven building complex shaped like the letters 'F,' 'U,' 'C,' 'K,' 'Y,' 'O,' and 'U' should just shut the hell up.

Shapes can have meanings, context and functionality matter--hence why this building is not comparable to Charles Manson's tattoo, for example--and marathon's a waste of time and space.

If Nazi Germany chose a square, would every vision of a square be legitimate cause for protest?

Because the specific shape is irrelevent to the symbolism behind it. It's disingenuous to claim otherwise.

And of course, the personal attack proves that you've got nothing else.

It's sad to have to break out the ignore list again, but it sure makes marathon more readable. I don't care when idiots misinterpret everything under the sun and stir up a ruckus, but marathon's no idiot, he's deliberate, and he has no excuses.

This picture/issue is old as fuck.

I've seen that picture before a bunch of times. Either this is the same shit coming up again, or its a constructed story using the same picture.

It is not a coincidence that Nazi Germany, or anyone else for that matter, never chose a square with no further qualities to denote a highly specific reference.

The degree of specificity is not irrelevant for a symbol's usability. Have you never seen writing in an alphabet you did not know? How do you think you could tell it was writing, then? Because symbols are NOT composed of the simplest shapes that nature produces all the time, such as the shape of planets.