CHALLENGER x NEIGHBORHOOD Collection | Hypebeast

This is totally racist, along with that dumb black hat by some other crap company that HB previewed a few weeks back. As a Jew I find this kind of material offensive. I am educated on the history of the swastika and its Buddhist origins, but it has been forever tainted by history. This shirt is not starting a dialog about symbols, or culture or anything. There are certain subjects that you just can’t take lightly and this is one of them. Why cant designers just come up with a cool design like the old days and stop relying on text and offensive material to sell shirts.

This is totally racist, along with that dumb black hat by some other crap company that HB previewed a few weeks back. As a Jew I find this kind of material offensive. I am educated on the history of the swastika and its Buddhist origins, but it has been forever tainted by history. This shirt is not starting a dialog about symbols, or culture or anything. There are certain subjects that you just can’t take lightly and this is one of them. Why cant designers just come up with a cool design like the old days and stop relying on text and offensive material to sell shirts.

it’s a Manji, a buddhist symbol. It actually faces the other way, so it isn’t a swastika.

Plus the skull has bunny ears…

alright, so fine for the japanese people. i’m not going to wear something like that here in germany…

and don’t try to tell me the designers aren’t playing with 3rd reich symbols, check out the skulls (not just any skull, but pretty close to the SS-logo-skull…) or the fragment design logo (SS?).

@ don, i’m aware that the swastika is an ancient religious symbol. and that’s fine. but no matter where you are on this globe, you can not overlook the connotation it has gotten during the 3rd reich. and there’s nothing fashionable about that.

Educate yourself, retards:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika

The swastika is a beautiful thing.

*n

wow ppl learn. it’s not a swastika it’s a religious sign from japan. where you think the nazi got it from. I would so bang this a drop a pound of knowledge on anyone who said it was racist.

Before everyone starts hating on this:
It is intended for the Japanese market, where this is a backwards swastika to the one you are thinking of, which is historically a religious symbol there and does not bear a stigma there as it does here in North America.

thats not a swa sticka..it doesnt have sharp edges..its close though haha too bad pretty good looking piece

Not feelin Swastikas at all!!! It’s not cool. Just bad taste.

NO BODY WEARS SWASTIKAS IN AMERICA EXCEPT FOR NEONAZIS

THIS MAKES BOTH COMPANIES LOOK WEAK CAUSE THEY HAVE TO RELY ON A CONTROVERSIAL GRAPHIC TO GET BY, WITHOUT THOSE SHITTY ARM SCREENS AND THE SWASTIKAS THIS SHIRT MIGHT ACTUALLY BE BORING BUT DECENT

SVASTICA COLLECTION, SOOO STUPID DESIGNERS

is it just me, or is anyone else not feeling any of the swastika-esque graphics? at all?

Challenger is cool, they should sell outside Japan, I’d buy it.