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To: timsbella
The "Belsen Was A Gas" reference is to a tasteless song by the punk group The Sex Pistols.

In the late '70s and early '80s it was a relatively common button for punks to wear alongside 100 other buttons and safety pins and studs on their paint-streaked MC jackets.

This was most likely a model wearing vintage punk clothes. I doubt that this was deliberate malice, but the laziness of a modeling company not really looking at their props.

Regardless, it wasn't funny then and it isn't funny now.

5 posted on 09/14/2007 4:41:35 AM PDT by wideawake (Why is it that so many self-proclaimed "Constitutionalists" know so little about the Constitution?)
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To: wideawake

Interesting. I was definitely too young and not exposed to their “art” to understand the reference. It’s still shocking in an age of PC and “tolerance” that engulfs Canuckistan.


6 posted on 09/14/2007 4:46:39 AM PDT by timsbella (Mark Steyn for Prime Minister of Canada! (Steve's won my vote in the meantime))
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To: wideawake

what was the original punk reference? was it also to the holocaust?


11 posted on 09/14/2007 5:26:06 AM PDT by beebuster2000 (choice is not not peace or war, but small war now, or big war later masquerading as peace now.)
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