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Originally Posted by Penguin
A commemoration and the half-time show we are talking about, are also two different things, as the latter contained no element of endorsement.
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I completely disagree. Singing the songs wearing the costumes and flying the flags and symbols is a significant endorsement. You think those kids will think of the millions of murdered innocents when they see the hammer and sickle or will they think of the Soviet regime as something to be celebrated in song and dance?
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Let's play a scenario:
Say the US would not have stepped in the war in Europe in the 1940s. Say also, Germany would somehow made it through the war and would still be a fascist dictatorship today. Many US companies moved their production to Germany. A major part of the items available in your shops are made in Nazi Germany, with semi-slave labor. The official US policy is that bringing capitalism into Germany would somehow magically also bring more democracy.
A HS band does a show, called Berlin 1933, where they sport the swastika in a historic connotation.
What would be the bigger problem to you, given that you are not too fond of nazism, and what would be a storm in a waterglass?
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I don't buy that theory. We don't necessarily have to have fought someone to be wrong in promoting them (although it helps). How about a half time commemoration of the Khmer Rouge / Pol Pot years in Cambodia? Would that also be just a storm in a water glass to you as well?