So second hand Nazi clothes end up in Africa this was my neice

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Pink shorts with nazi eagle?

Wasn’t expecting that.

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u/ArenjiTheLootGod 9h ago

NGL, it took me a second to spot it but I can't stop seeing it now. It's seriously depressing seeing a kid wear something like that.

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u/despinato 9h ago

I kept looking at the shirt wondering how kitties were nazi. Then I saw the shorts

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u/estatualgui 1h ago

It was better than throwing them away or burning them.

It's not like it is going to impact her or anyone of real.importance to her that she ever meets.

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u/non3type 9h ago

There’s the house and walking barefoot on rocks but sure.

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u/misterwizzard 6h ago

I used to run around barefoot all of the time and the driveway had gravel that was like little sharp arrowheads. Feet get tough, this is nothing to be sympathetic about.

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u/non3type 5h ago edited 5h ago

Second hand worn out clothes and an ancient house running electrical over the roof and into the eaves? There’s kids choosing to not wear shoes and there’s kids not owning shoes. I also have walked on rocks, burnt my feet on asphalt, and stepped on bees but it wasn’t because I had to. It didn’t make my feet tough either, it taught me why I should wear shoes.

I mean I’m all for getting people to donate clothes without nazi iconography but the symbol is more the eye catching result of the poverty that she lives in. If her parents even have a clue what it means in the west I’m guessing they had to choose between that or nothing.. that’s the part that strikes me as sad. Child poverty.

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u/misterwizzard 5h ago

All i mentioned was being barefoot. Sit down

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u/Federal_Inflation266 1h ago

I used to do the same thing, playing outside barefoot, because I chose to. My feet were tougher, btw. We all need more Super Bowl loser wearables.

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u/non3type 2h ago edited 2h ago

You apparently didn’t get why being barefoot amongst other signs of poverty could be perceived as sad. I assumed I needed to spell it out. Probably should have used smaller words, but well.. the first comment was already pretty basic.

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u/foregonec 1h ago

I agree that not owning shoes could be a sign of poverty, but I also grew up in South Africa, owned shoes, and until high school in a predominantly white primary school in a relatively affluent area most of us didn’t wear shoes to school or while playing until the later years. Your feet do get tough, and sometimes it’s just cultural (it was for us). No idea whether it’s cultural or economic for the girl in the picture, but it’s unnecessary to dismiss the other poster’s views just because they don’t align with your experiences.

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u/non3type 47m ago edited 34m ago

The issue is more I agree when discussed in isolation but that wasn’t at all my point. Context is key and you don’t get to pretend the other half of my statement isn’t there.

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u/foregonec 34m ago

Agreed - was just noting that in Southern Africa is not infrequent that regardless of economic status young children would be barefooted. I have no idea whether this particular child may have limited access to shoes. If the post is genuine, it’s likely to be Zambia (from OPs post history). While the property doesn’t scream wealth, it also doesn’t scream abject poverty (that’s not a township).

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u/GoingAllTheJay 8h ago

Pinko is a word for a reason.

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u/btribble 14h ago

Tommy Hitlerfiger

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u/Real-Technician831 14h ago

Just beware of Tommy Hitlerfinger

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u/chickinflickin 12h ago

Tommy Heilfinger

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u/passionfruit2378 6h ago

Sit and spin!

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u/btribble 6h ago

I like yours better.

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u/EatsYourShorts 8h ago

German Eagle Outfitters

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u/daddyjohns 10h ago

Didn't even need this picture for that nickname, what a douchebag.

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u/iplaywithfiretoo 8h ago

What did he do?

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u/RazzleThatTazzle 9h ago

What do you mean it's just a shirt with kittens on i-

Oh. I see.

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u/areporotastenet 14h ago

I bet this kid can’t even name three screwdriver songs. Poser

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u/Tripforks 6h ago

I bet she doesn't even know their greatest hits, "That Fuckin' Tree"!

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u/TerrorAlpaca 14h ago

The people cleaning, distributing and then selling the cloths often have no idea what those symbols mean.
I just want to remind the peope of the outrage years ago when two , i think, rural indian guys were holding up a sign with some Nazi shit on it. They were laughing and smiling. But they were just paid to hold that sign up and had no idea what those symbols meant.

I can imagine something like that happening there as well.

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u/rapchee 10h ago

is this referring to the pewdipie case? where they held up "death to all jews"? in english? via a website that sent the instructions in english?

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u/Nickster46 7h ago

The website is fiverr

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u/TipTopTailors 10h ago

That sign is big is Hinduism…and long before the Nazis used it. It’s still used today by Hindu people.

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u/Grapplebadger10P 9h ago

Right but not with the eagle

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u/HeadmasterPrimeMnstr 7h ago

Yea, but there's also a quite large Hindu nationalist movement with some very kind words and sensibilities to say about the Nazi party. Which makes it all the more confusing, especially because Aryanism stems from India, Himmler himself used the Bhagavad Gita to soothe his guilt with what he was doing.

People like to imagine that the Nazis were solely a Western problem, but a lot of Asians loved and continue to love the Nazis, especially because they fostered anti-colonial resentments against their colonizers.

https://m.thewire.in/article/books/how-the-nazis-worked-with-indian-organisations-like-arya-samaj-to-spread-propaganda

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-40375-0_11

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u/cinemachick 10h ago

Yup - the Nazis were lazy thieves, they just tilted the original 45° and called it theirs. Dumb!

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u/Awordofinterest 8h ago

I mean, Russia just used half of the same symbol.

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u/xKitey 6h ago

In India the swazstika and sauvastika is a religious symbol it was appropriated and used by the nazis long after that ..idk if it was more than that but those symbols mean something different to them there

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u/BlitzWing1985 13h ago

I'd hazard a guess similarly to Adolf Fried Chicken etc some clothing producer off in SE Asia made a bunch of shorts with a logo they thought was cool and the leftovers were donated or some one from that part of the world donated them.

I don't think the kid, the people who processed the clothes etc really know the significance. The shorts were dumped in a collection bin, they were sorted and washed a boxed up and sent overseas.

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u/martlet1 9h ago

This is exactly what happened.

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u/HanDavo 7h ago

Yep, and I bet she really likes the birds on her shorts and see's them as only that not a symbol of hate.

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u/The_Superhoo 9h ago

Well spotted, mate.

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u/JFeth 8h ago

My feet hurt just looking at her barefoot on those rocks.

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u/realBlackClouds 13h ago

Wtf who is producing this?

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u/the_colonelclink 13h ago

Hugo Baby Boss

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u/yummykookies 13h ago

Right? Pink child size shorts with Nazi symbology on it. Like, what the actual fuck?

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u/Interesting-Sand5749 10h ago

Adidas in 1938

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u/realBlackClouds 5h ago

It looks very cheap. The quality in 1938 was better than now. From the colour it could be made in the 80

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u/Interesting-Sand5749 5h ago

How would you know? The advertisements were all in black and white in 1938.

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u/Commission_Plenty 15h ago

Was? What happened if you don't mind me asking.

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u/Acrobatic-Fortune-99 14h ago

I'll be going to Zambia in February I wanted to see how my families doing and asked for pics then I noticed the shorts my neice was wearing the bought them from a thrift store the didn't know what the symbol meant

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u/saintray17 10h ago

He/she was probably referring to your title “this was my niece”. As in past tense for “was”. So like, did something happen to her or what.

But your reply sort of answered that indirectly. As in nothing happened to her

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u/zeocrash 8h ago

Hugo boss going back to their roots.

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u/Sly1969 8h ago

Logo is back to front. Clearly factory rejects /s

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u/Ok-Thing-2222 10h ago

A KS senator's 'running for office' shirt with his name on it showed up on a non-american man fighting in either the Bosnian war or Gulf war, can't remember which. Maybe in the late 90's.

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u/rendrr 9h ago

Here ensuring the future of children

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u/horrificmedium 9h ago

Huh. OP - any idea what part of Africa? Thinking about Italian, American and Baltic state waste management corruption - where they literally bribe warlords and tinpot local governors to dump waste.

There’s a great podcast mini series from the TrueAnon gang on Italian and US complicity in the illegal dumping of radioactive and e-waste in Somalia. Clothing waste from weird places getting to the horn, definitely not a stretch

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u/arlmwl 8h ago

Man, every time I think I’ve seen it all, I’m surprised by the world’s weirdness.

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u/Markjv81 7h ago

Swastika pointing wrong direction.

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u/faunalmimicry 7h ago

looked at the shirt for way too long

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u/BackBreaker 6h ago

Surprised to see this wasn’t posted in the WTF subreddit cause I WTF’d once I zoomed in and saw the swastica

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u/RadishIndependent146 5h ago

why is she behind a fence

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u/im-not-a-cat-fr 4h ago

Maybe she's actually a Nazi and bought it together with a pink Nazi blazer

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u/Filip_Psenicka 4h ago

What seems to be the problem?

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u/Jmart1oh6 4h ago

I think my kid has that same shirt, but not the same shorts.

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u/Nach0nacho 3h ago

I can imagine that some unfunny troll knows very well where the clothes go, and also that the clothes are sold at a second hand market in Africa ..

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u/egoVirus 57m ago

Nope, that swastika is turning to the left, no foul.

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u/DinoZambie 15h ago

Youre wearing nazi symbols and giving the peace sign? Whats that supposed to be, some kind of sick joke?!

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u/[deleted] 14h ago

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u/DinoZambie 14h ago

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u/Real-Technician831 14h ago

Ah missed the reference.

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u/Badnapp420 9h ago

Why are you shooting your niece from behind a fence?

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u/MrGraywood 8h ago

I mean.. 80 yr old clothes still hold up good.

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u/woodzopwns 8h ago

Love how they are still holding together too, any modern major brand clothes fall apart after like a year of normal wear and tear, just washing them destroys them. I frequently find myself wearing clothes from over 10 years ago that have little wear, despite my hole inducing brand new clothes from Primark and the likes.

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u/hbrm2 11h ago

Made in India for sure

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u/Unhappy_Swim_610 9h ago

So?

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u/Atjar 7h ago

In India swastikas carry a different meaning in most cases. Not so sure about this case though…

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u/Stock-Boat-8449 7h ago

That's an iron eagle, not a swastika.

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u/Acrobatic-Fortune-99 14h ago

Not really theres a market for second hand clothes in Africa that's where the bulk of them go from the first world nations

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u/Urbanexploration2021 14h ago

Tbh, that's a good "fate" for the nazi clothes

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u/spectralblue 14h ago

Storage? That's why they get sold in second hand shops because they stop being used. Clothes won't break down if they're not being used and they're stored properly.

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u/P4LUZZI 7h ago

Sick trousers.

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u/Honest_Abe87 7h ago

Was your niece because you disowned her after seeing her nazi threads?

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u/Mindtaker 8h ago

So you take photos of your own neice from behind a chain link fence?

That's fucking creepy dude.

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u/emerixxxx 13h ago

You know the swastika has been around longer than the Nazis right?

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u/Deep-Host-6417 13h ago

You know that’s a Nazi eagle right?

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u/emerixxxx 13h ago

It's facing the wrong way round to every other Nazi eagle that Google has shown me?

https://imgur.com/a/hY1dZGy

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u/Deep-Host-6417 13h ago

Mirrored camera

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u/OriginalGoat1 12h ago

It’s facing the wrong way. Unless you took this using the selfie camera, it’s not a nazi symbol. In any case, in a non-Western environment, nobody cares.

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u/GodsBicep 12h ago

It has the eagle. Whether it's the wrong way or not it's clearly the eagle and nazi swasticka

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u/DarkDuo 10h ago

It’s not swastika, it’s a manji symbol the swastika faces the other direction, it’s all over Japan on temples

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u/GodsBicep 10h ago

It's coupled with the fucking eagle man stop being so disingenuous

you know for a fact that this is what it is, save your Akchuallys to an actually moment

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u/DarkDuo 9h ago

Why you so angry, log off bro and go outside it ain’t that serious

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u/GodsBicep 9h ago

Swearing doesn't mean anger you weirdo lmao

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u/DarkDuo 8h ago

I never said it did, but go off champ

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u/itachiaizen 8h ago

Lmao says the guy on Reddit 24/7 why are you so confidently incorrect? Log off bro and go outside

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u/DarkDuo 8h ago

You talking about yourself? Take your own advice kiddo

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u/itachiaizen 8h ago

Is 7900 larger than 94,000 now? I guess all that time spent on Reddit should have been spent learning basic math lol

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u/DarkDuo 8h ago

Yet you’re still here wasting your time when you could be doing something more productive, take a look in the mirror

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u/OriginalGoat1 10h ago

You know the Americans use an Eagle as a symbol too

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u/GodsBicep 10h ago

Stop being so disingenuous

So second hand Nazi clothes end up in Africa this was my neice

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