Has Stormfront and their ilk proclaimed this the official footwear of white nationalism now that New Balance has disavowed racists trying to adopt their shoes?

Comcast CSRs are getting a Q1 bonus gift this year...

Hasn't the doc marten brand always had that distinction for the stormfront crowd?

Back in my punky days (late 80s/early 90s) everyone wore Docs, but the Nazi skinhead types wore them with white laces.

Has it? I thought that was a kind of college-campus hippie and/or hiker brand. I could easily be wrong as I'm not much into shoes beyond "how cheap are they" and "do they fit?"

Doc Marten boots were reclaimed decades ago and time and time again since.

Well - shows you how much I know about white supremacist fashion trends.

They leave swastika imprints because there are swastikas on the sole. How could this not be intentional?

maybe they were meant to be imprinted facing the opposite direction?

let's not forget the swazi was originally (and still is) a sacred symbol in eastern religions.

that deserves its own post

Hasn't something like that been posted? Pretty sure I've seen it hear before.

How many people in the western world see a swastika and think anything other than Nazis?

you are correct sir.

I counter with the possibility these boots were designed and or made in the eastern

A Southern California shoe company has recalled a model of military-style work boots after a customer complained that the tread leaves swastika stamps on the ground.

That's the first paragraph of the article.

It was an obvious mistake made by our manufacturers in China.

A few paragraphs down.

Did the Chinese manufacturers design the boots or just put them together?

that's a good question which could go either way.

I have one experience with ordering to spec from China. it involved personal vape pens back in 07 at the start of the craze. My buddy submitted his design and the company sent it back with some suggested changes. As I recall, the suggested changes were different materials to be used in order to cut cost.

so yeah...

How about the Chinese manufacturers had an available set of pre-designed workable sole prints to choose between, and these felt right without great thought?

Shouldn't they have shown them to the American company and let them choose which one they wanted?

How about the Chinese manufacturers had an available set of pre-designed workable sole prints to choose between, and these felt right to the American company without great thought?

Then someone at the American company chose soles with swastikas on them.

Obviously it's intentional. But it seems possible it was done on the sly by someone in the design/manufacturing chain, not necessarily with the knowledge and blessing of the shoe company.

The only thing that makes me think it could have been an honest mistake is how the tread looks vs. the print it gives. The diamond-shapes with lines inside look rounded and less Swastika-ish.

On the other hand, if I was setting out to deliberately design a boot tread that made swastika imprints- hoping to get thousands sold on Amazon and elsewhere, I might try to make the visible tread design not so obviously swastika-like.

That's as maybe, but until something more concrete pointing to a neo-nazi working on making boot-prints that will further the cause of Der Fuhrer by leaving tracks that... I dunno. Indoctrinate people subliminally? ...I'll have to stick with Occam's Footwear on this one.

"Even if it was a simple error, many are pointing out that it indicates something is wrong either with the makeup of the [design] staff or the culture there. I personally think it's a valid point. What does this error say about our culture?"

Certainly a ridiculous, careless error there, but not exactly, y'know, swastikas.