Description: "Yet the priests are, as is notorious, the worst enemies--why? Because they are the weakest. Their weakness causes their hate to expand into a monstrous and sinister shape, a shape which is most crafty and most poisonous. The really great haters in the history of the world have always been priests, who are also the cleverest haters..."--Friedrich Nietzsche, The Geneology of Morals Let's get one thing straight about the graphic: the photo is real; hence there's no reason why anyone should accuse the wearer of being fascist or antisemitic. Originally, the band used this image for a promo flyer back in 1980, and as a result they were summarily banned from performing in Glasgow. Council officials took offense, not at the authenticity of the photo itself--a priest giving his blessing to two columns of Hitler's Brown Shirts--but at the band's ironic appropriation of it, which makes no sense when one thinks about it. All the band was really doing was shining light on the clergy's inherent hypocrisy, how in reality the church has little to do with "love thy neighbor" and everything to do with proximity to power. And there's no defending it. One might argue, "Well, things were different back then." No, they weren't; why do you think the evangelicals are, for the third election cycle in a row, aligning themselves with Trump? Because they believe that he epitomizes good Christian values? No, they simply see him as a conduit to maintaining power, plain and simple. There's nothing the clergy fears more than its own obsolescence; thus they'll coalesce around any "strong man" who panders to them. Nothing could be more transparently cynical, but there you have it. And if someone were to approach me about the shirt and say that's it's offensive, I would agree: yes, it is; but let's not lose sight of that--that's the whole point. Sunlight is always the best disinfectant, and so it's not the one who displays (or wears) the image that's committing the offense; it's the "monstrous and sinister" shape-shifters, the ones who prioritize power and influence over basic human rights and decency. And human lives. And the shirt is awesome too.
Price: 49 USD
Location: Westwood, Massachusetts
End Time: 2024-12-29T02:24:30.000Z
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Brand: Gildan
Size Type: Regular
Original/Reproduction: Original
Style: Graphic Tee
Material: Cotton
Gender: Unisex
Country/Region of Manufacture: Haiti
