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You won't believe this but... Hart's Surf Shop. SkateMoss is classy. Out of everyone on the planet she picked Joey Brezinki's B-Tier Skate Nazi BFF.
https://hartsshardcore.yolasite.com/history.php
"Harts Surf Shop was one of the few surf shops to occupy the Jax Beach, Florida landscape for over thirty five years to only be closed down by the Arabs four years ago in 2005. With the "invasion" of foreigners..."
Ouch, that is a tough read. I bet they never added 'more to come...' because they were struggling to justify using SS symbols and the term nazi without supporting nazism. Fuck that guy
closed down by the Arabs?? what in the hell did I just read
also on that page:
Some surf clubs in the 60's, particularly at the Wind'n'Sea in La Jolla, used the swastika symbol on their boards and identified with Nazism as a counter culture.
uh??
I don't even know who this Paul Hart guy is but I will NEVER understand how someone can wear nazi symbols and look at themselves in the mirror. Even more so in the skating/surfing world.
Def all been brought up multiple times but hosoi (and later Muska) rising sun are some of the most popular graphics of all time. Plenty of surfers and skaters are stupid.
as a euro I'm probably more sensitive to German than Japanese war crimes, but is it really comparable? I mean the rising sun was used by Japan before and after WWII? and it's still used apparently. Whereas swastikas and SS symbols are only associated with genocide, hate and the nazi regime.
The Rising Sun is associated with Japanese Imperialism. Nowadays most people associate it with the far right, along with other symbols, like the Imperial Crest, the Chrysanthemum. You see a black van driving around with those symbols on it and it is unambiguously ultra-nationalist.
Japanese nationalism was never addressed to the same degree as Germany, and because of that these thing still exist openly in Japanese society. And while Germany seems to have been careful to give frank accounts of its wartime crimes in public school history, Japan much less so, and its a continuing battle.
A few years back, in the prefecture where i live, there was a nationional educator’s conference over textbook updates, and ultranationalists from all over came in to protest and intimidate with their black vans equipped with massive speakers blasting wartime songs and yelling for the expulsion of foreigners.
But to get back to the rising sun, Korea, China, and i think the Philippines are not stoked on it, even though the Japanese navy still uses it. Maybe not as evil as the swastika, but deeply problematic, more like the Confederate flag