mystery skateboards were(are?) actually banned in germany because the sig rune is considered anti-constitutional propaganda. stuff like slayer merchandise was modified for the longest time, lately you can apparently buy slayer merch with the sig rune here.
personally i don't think lopez is a racist, even though they should have known they might get legal problems in germany because of the rune. interestingly, i think they never started selling it again in germany. guess jamie thomas was over it after there was already a lawsuit about zero that made it so you couldnt buy a shirt in germany that said zero skateboards. they had only the skull on them.
the rune may have been a failed attempt at incorporating a symbol into their logo they thought is tough and occult. maybe it did cross their mind that it could be offensive, well it should have tbh, probably were lost on the VERY STRONG racist connotation because i guess you don't get taught in school/they are the dumb kind of skaters, what do i expect, is all i can guess. kind of weird that they went with a norse/germanic letter tho, i would have expected mystery to be more like some kind of latin american gothic thing, but whatever. is mystery even still around...
also there is a difference between having an unfortunately designed logo or named drink(shawn white's white power energy drink comes to mind...) and saying shit that's racist to varying degrees for decades, posing with white power bands, wearing nazi and racist militia emblems, referring to people of other races mainly in slurs, and so on.
also, here is a good rune: