Posted on 01/06/2018 12:56:20 PM PST by Simon Green
Shelton shopkeeper Janice Danker said she’s receiving death threats.
The reason?
She accepted an antique German Nazi flag on consignment and hung it near a collection of World War II items in her store.
A few days ago, someone took a photo of the flag at her shop, Games and Needful Things, and posted it on Facebook. Danker said the phone at her antique and secondhand store has been ringing nonstop ever since, and she’s received hundreds of phone calls, emails and social media messages.
Many of the people are angry that a Nazi flag was displayed in and being sold by her shop, saying it’s a symbol of hate.
“They called me a Nazi, racist bigot,” Danker said. “One guy … said he was going to burn my shop down. Another said he was going to come down and put a bullet through my head.”
One Shelton mother said it was upsetting that Danker was getting threats, but she didn’t want to take her children into the shop if the Nazi flag was on display.
“It’s hurtful to people,” Laura, who didn’t want her last name published, told KING-5 News. “You don’t want to walk in and see that. It’s like it hits you in the side of the face.”
Shelton Police detectives contacted Danker after they heard about the threats, but Danker declined to file a formal complaint, said Andy Arnes, a spokesman for the city of Shelton.
Still others have supported of Danker’s choice to sell the Nazi flag. Danker said a World War II veteran told her she should keep it up because a lot of people lost their lives for it.
Another woman told her that her mom lived in Germany during World War II. “She said, ‘People need to not forget, so this never happens again,’ ” Danker said. “She literally begged me to keep this up.”
But it won’t likely stay up. Danker said she was contacted Thursday by someone who wants to pay $375 for it.
She said she plans to continue to carry antique items in her shop, even if they draw criticism.
Over the past 11 years, she said, she’s sold many items that could be found offensive. For example, she’s sold slave shackles that were on consignment. And right now she has a Confederate flag in the shop.
She also has a communion plate.
Danker said she thinks the drama created by the Nazi flag is ridiculous.
“I just think that people need to wake up and realize that these are pieces of history,” Danker said. “And, yes, it was in a bad time of history. But it is part of our history.”
A bunch of morons who would melt if they went into a history museum. ...
If I had a large game room, billiards and things on the wall, I wouldn’t mind having this item.
It would not be hung in honor, but as a conversation starter. We need to pass down what Hitler, (actual) racism, and genocide are all about. It leads into talk of the U.S.S.R., China, Pol Pot, Germany, and all the deaths that socialism and communism caused last century.
I don’t think we should look at it as something that should be expunged from the face of the earth.
People need to now what that flag stood for.
People should know the warning signs and what to avoid.
We see those signs today, and are in the process of expunging them from our nation thanks to President Trump, the man the socialists and communists try to call a raciest.
If they only had a clue about the real history of racism, socialism, and communism. No wait, disregard that. They do. They just don’t want others to.
Games & Needful Things, 317 S 1st St, Shelton, WA 98584.
https://www.facebook.com/GamesandNeedfulThingsShelton/
I don’t need reminders of my son getting killed in Iraq, but I don’t get bent out of shape seeing video footage of the ambush or the like.
I got news for you. It is happening again.
It’s happening in Europe and it’s happening here.
Jews and Christians are being harassed and attacked.
The legal system is being weaponized against people of faith.
The only thing about that Nazi flag is that the people are upset by a symbol of evil with no idea why. Those people are following the Nazi philosophy but are too ignorant of history to realize it.
In my small town, an antique dealer hung a Nazi Flag in his window, for sale.
The locals all lost their collective minds on facebook, etc. ~
It was NOT a NeoNazi Aryan symbol; It was a WWII collectable, simply because on the rear of the flag, the American Heroes who captured that particular flag had signed their names with their home towns/cities followed by the date...
It sold for $850 American dollars.
1) Unicorns have magic powers, and Nazi's don't
2) Unicorns are good, and Nazism is very evil.
3) In the current time, unicorns are more common than Nazis.
It’s dumb to get that upset over it to want her dead, and she seems like an ordinary, clueless woman.
However. If I were wandering through her shop and saw it, I’d get the hell out immediately and tell her why and not buy anything. It’s personal.
LOL. Haven’t been out there in 45 years, so your guess may be better than mine.
Yours is a really good post.
I think Shelton is where Simpson Timber Company’s headquarters are at.
“She also has a communion plate.”
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That line made me say, “WTF?”
Only to a true moonbat would find a communion plate to be offensive.
There used to be a collection of antique stores south of Ft Lauderdale and one in particular had a ton of WWII artifacts and lots of Nazi items. Prices were marked up pretty high. I think all of those stores went out of business during the recession.
Hopefully she was on the rifle team and knows how to protect herself. :-)
Exactly.
Nazi stuff is very common at antique estate auctions. But I don’t buy it for this reason.
“...scream senselessly and clap your hands over your ears, run around with your hair on fire...”
I’ll have a S-E grin on my face the rest of the day with that visual running endlessly through my mind. 8^)
Well then I guess she should take it down.
These snowflakes are not so much stupid asses as they are fascists.
In the old days, if something offended you, you simply didn’t look at it. You avoided it. You went elsewhere. Don’t like that historical statue in the park? Then don’t look at it. Go play in another part of the park.
That way of thinking is long gone. If something offends a liberal, his only response is a fascist one. Tear it down! Destroy it!
Also the Women's’ State Reformatory.
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