Swastika Earrings Taken Off Racks At Brooklyn Jewelry Store
The swastika-shaped earrings that were on sale at a Brooklyn jewelry store just days ago have been taken off the racks after a local politician asked that they be removed.
RELATED: Brooklyn Jewelry Store Sells Swastika Earrings
The New York Daily News reports that City Councilman Steve Levin visited the Bejeweled store in Brooklyn’s Greenpoint neighborhood himself on Wednesday to talk to its owner Young Sook Kim. Kim, who Levin says was apologetic, agreed to take the earrings many found offensive off her inventory list.
One of the store’s managers pointed out that the symbol has been used by a number of religions long before the Nazi party adopted it as its own — in fact, Tibetan Buddhists still use it as a symbol of prosperity.
But that’s Tibet. Levin told The Daily News that in Brooklyn, you’ve gotta be a little more considerate.
“In Brooklyn today, there are thousands of Holocaust survivors,” Levin said. “We are a diverse city. We have to be sensitive to what each other has gone through.”
And while the earrings may be gone now, the fact that they were on sale in the first place indicates that maybe this store didn’t have those things in mind.
[NYDN]
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