Political Knives = General Knives?

Status
Not open for further replies.
If you press and hold the image on my last reply it says open image from there it can be viewed other than that i dunno. Im not familiar with this process or forum
 
Sick_boy_knife_works said:
I wish i knew how to post pics of my work here. Im new to this forum but i love my work i dont cosider myself as a professional by any means there are makers out there better than me. But many consider that i am. And that being said i always conduct my business and customer satifaction with upmost professionalism bottom line. I see many of you see my point and thank you for that.
Click to expand...

Folks who conduct business and (consider) customer satisfaction with the utmost professionalism generally do so with attention to detail, including the written language.

Just sayin'. ;)
 
This thread hasnothing to do with knives, not enough meat on the bone. Off to Tech Support since we seem to be discussing ethics and other non-knife related items.
 
Doesn't this "Sick" person need to be a paying member to post pics of his knives which we know he is selling (albeit on another site, in this case Facebook)?

Zieg
 
Yea sorry i just set up accout today like i stated earlier im not familiar with this forum and would gladly pay my part. But it just seem to be a place of negative people. I dont think i want to be a part of this. Thank you

Sent from my LGLS991 using Tapatalk
 
Listen up. The man was called out on Bladeforums. We allow -- we encourage -- people in his position to respond to explain themselves. Knock off the cheapshots.
 
Sick_boy_knife_works said:
Yea sorry i just set up accout today like i stated earlier im not familiar with this forum and would gladly pay my part. But it just seem to be a place of negative people. I dont think i want to be a part of this. Thank you

Sent from my LGLS991 using Tapatalk
Click to expand...
Hahahahahaha

Sent from my LG-H811 using Tapatalk
 
Considering how harshly the guy has been criticized, and how publicly his character has been maligned, I'd say he's conducted himself here in a very civil manner. Personally, I don't know what kind of guy he is, or what's in his heart, because I've never met or spent any time with him. I prefer not to judge a persons character from a few pictures on Facebook.

Of course people can say- "Well what about the pic of him with the knife and the woman?".

Well, somewhere in this world there is a picture of myself and an old girlfriend with our hands around each others throats, like we're choking the life out of each other. I'm sure there are many people in this country (the types who look for any excuse to be outraged and pass judgement on others) who, if they saw that picture, would say "You should be ashamed of yourself. You're being insensitive to the very serious issue of domestic violence". No, we were just two kids in our early twenties goofing off at a party for someone with a camera. Along with the pic of us "choking" each other there were also pics of us kissing and picking each others noses. I think it would be pretty silly for someone to judge me based on that one picture. Not that I would care what such people think.

And people can say "Well what about the racist stuff?"

A lot of people, and I mean A LOT of people in this country will tell you that the Confederate flag is MOST DEFINITELY a symbol of racism, bigotry, slavery, oppression, etc, etc. Are they right? How about if a knife maker puts the Confederate flag on his website, does that make him a racist who should be shunned and condemned? Many in this country would say yes.

Walter Brend, a well-known and highly regarded knife maker, puts the Confederate flag right on his knives. Imagine that, a knife maker putting a symbol of racism and slavery on his knives. Should we assume that Mr. Brend is a racist and a bigot?

I wonder what the members of Bladeforums would say if they found out that Blade magazine was going to do an article on Mr. Brend, but that they cancelled the article because people contacted them and complained about them promoting a racist who puts racist symbols on his knives. I imagine the consensus of the membership here would be that Blade magazine had surrendered to political correctness run amok. And all those people who complained to Blade magazine would be regarded as idiots.

For the record, I do not regard Walter Brend as a racist, nor do I consider the Confederate flag to be a symbol of racism.

There is no shortage of people on the internet who look for any reason to say "I'm better than you". And there is certainly no shortage of people in this country who are very quick, even eager, to call other people "racists".

Personally, I would need to know a lot more about Sick_boy_knife_works in order to form an opinion of his character. A few pics on a Facebook page isn't enough for me to pass judgment on someone.
 
Last edited:
Being proud of being white is great. Nothing wrong with that. I didn't see anything at allabout any other race on his facebook pages, leave him alone you asshats.
 
Last edited:
You asshats? You want to persuade us to respect someone who posted a swastika, by calling us asshats?

Straighten up and fly right.
 
killgar said:
Considering how harshly the guy has been criticized, and how publicly his character has been maligned, I'd say he's conducted himself here in a very civil manner. Personally, I don't know what kind of guy he is, or what's in his heart, because I've never met or spent any time with him. I prefer not to judge a persons character from a few pictures on Facebook.

Of course people can say- "Well what about the pic of him with the knife and the woman?".

Well, somewhere in this world there is a picture of myself and an old girlfriend with our hands around each others throats, like we're choking the life out of each other. I'm sure there are many people in this country (the types who look for any excuse to be outraged and pass judgement on others) who, if they saw that picture, would say "You should be ashamed of yourself. You're being insensitive to the very serious issue of domestic violence". No, we were just two kids in our early twenties goofing off at a party for someone with a camera. Along with the pic of us "choking" each other there were also pics of us kissing and picking each others noses. I think it would be pretty silly for someone to judge me based on that one picture. Not that I would care what such people think.

And people can say "Well what about the racist stuff?"

A lot of people, and I mean A LOT of people in this country will tell you that the Confederate flag is MOST DEFINITELY a symbol of racism, bigotry, slavery, oppression, etc, etc. Are they right? How about if a knife maker puts the Confederate flag on his website, does that make him a racist who should be shunned and condemned? Many in this country would say yes.

Walter Brend, a well-known and highly regarded knife maker, puts the Confederate flag right on his knives. Imagine that, a knife maker putting a symbol of racism and slavery on his knives. Should we assume that Mr. Brend is a racist and a bigot?

I wonder what the members of Bladeforums would say if they found out that Blade magazine was going to do an article on Mr. Brend, but that they cancelled the article because people contacted them and complained about them promoting a racist who puts racist symbols on his knives. I imagine the consensus of the membership here would be that Blade magazine had surrendered to political correctness run amok. And all those people who complained to Blade magazine would be regarded as idiots.

For the record, I do not regard Walter Brend as a racist, nor do I consider the Confederate flag to be a symbol of racism.

There is no shortage of people on the internet who look for any reason to say "I'm better than you". And there is certainly no shortage of people in this country who are very quick, even eager, to call other people "racists".

Personally, I would need to know a lot more about Sick_boy_knife_works in order to form an opinion of his character. A few pics on a Facebook page isn't enough for me to pass judgment on someone.
Click to expand...

Don't know about Walter Brend, but seems like someone whose views may not align with my own, so I'll go ahead and avoid him in the future. Thanks.

As far as Sick_boy_knife_works, seeing a neat flag he posts with a swastika, middle finger, and the Confederate flag on it must mean...


Hmmm, can't peg that one.
 
Does anyone here know what a "swastika" stands for besides the "first" thing that comes to mind? The radical "Germans" during ww2 adopted the "swastika" as there own and used it as their symbol during a time of hate, murder and basically a horrible time in this worlds history YES!The "true" meaning of "swastika" dates back over 12000 years. Its a symbol of good luck and good fortune. Also before the most hated man on earth "Hitler" completely twisted the meaning of this symbol....the us military used this symbol as there own and also the "boy scouts of America" . that being said I'm sure it may look offensive to the uneducated person but that too leads to ignorance. Learn your worlds history before stating facts you do not know! The statements made against me are only ones opinion and assumptions and has no direct reflection of who i am or what i stand for. I'm an American and i am white. I have every right to be proud of that! If i wasn't proud of that who would that make me? I am by no means a racist nor do i hate anyone. I don't look down on other races and I'm certainly not a "Nazi". Thank you. "For in the world of the blind a one eyed man is king"

Sent from my LGLS991 using Tapatalk
 
Thanks for googling Wikipedia from your phone.

Swastikas aren't tolerated around here, nor should they be, fuck your explanation in the ass, welcome to Bladeforums.
 
Sick_boy_knife_works said:
Does anyone here know what a "swastika" stands for besides the "first" thing that comes to mind? The radical "Germans" during ww2 adopted the "swastika" as there own and used it as their symbol during a time of hate, murder and basically a horrible time in this worlds history YES!The "true" meaning of "swastika" dates back over 12000 years. Its a symbol of good luck and good fortune. Also before the most hated man on earth "Hitler" completely twisted the meaning of this symbol....the us military used this symbol as there own and also the "boy scouts of America" . that being said I'm sure it may look offensive to the uneducated person but that too leads to ignorance. Learn your worlds history before stating facts you do not know! The statements made against me are only ones opinion and assumptions and has no direct reflection of who i am or what i stand for. I'm an American and i am white. I have every right to be proud of that! If i wasn't proud of that who would that make me? I am by no means a racist nor do i hate anyone. I don't look down on other races and I'm certainly not a "Nazi". Thank you. "For in the world of the blind a one eyed man is king"

Sent from my LGLS991 using Tapatalk
Click to expand...
So, on the pic of the flag in question, what do you think was the intent of using the swastika? It's fairly obvious requiring little thought, if any.
 
Well rhesus feces i did not put a swastika on here nor was i apart of this forum at the time of this whole stupid argument. But thanks for welcoming me.

Sent from my LGLS991 using Tapatalk
 
Rhesus Feces said:
Thanks for googling Wikipedia from your phone.

Swastikas aren't tolerated around here, nor should they be, fuck your explanation in the ass, welcome to Bladeforums.
Click to expand...

Are you lost? This isn't Whine&Cheese.
 
To answer the OP's question, I think that the original thread was properly shut down. It had drifted to the point that it wasn't about knives at all any more, and was drifting away from even being about the maker. I played a hand in that, and for that I'm sorry even though it seemed to be heading that direction even without my input.

In response to Sick Boy, I know all about the history of the swastika. I know how the Egyptians used it, I know how the Greeks used it, and I know how the Nazis used it. I even know about the Hindus using it. There are literally thousands of symbols that mean the exact same thing as all of the positive meanings attributed to the swastika, so why use that particular one that has so many negative connotations? The only possible reasons are that you're a Nazi yourself or you like pretending to be one to upset other people. Either way, there's not much for you to complain about when people associate you with the negative message that they remember the swastika representing. You knew about that before you chose to post the picture.

As for the being proud of your heritage part, it's been my experience that the only people that claim to be proud of their ethnicity are people that don't have anything else to be proud of. They grasp at straws and all they can come up with is "White Pride", "I'm a proud black man/woman", "I'm a proud latino/a", etc. etc. It's all the same message, which is that that particular person really wants to be proud of something and they haven't actually done anything to be proud of so they attempt to claim pride in their heritage. Why would you ever be proud of something that you had no part in and no control over? It makes no sense. Why not claim Primate Pride? It makes just as much sense to be proud of your opposable thumb as the color of your skin and it's far less likely to cause you problems.

Unfortunately, in your ramblings here you've proven my point from the original thread. I said that because of your posts on Facebook I would urge others to avoid dealing with you. Not because of your beliefs, but because you didn't come across as somebody that's trustworthy. All you've done in this thread is try to duck responsibility for your actions. You're a racist who supports the Nazis. You can try to make lame excuses for the images that appear on your account or you can be a man and own your actions. You've chosen the cowardly way out. It's an indication of your character. I have no doubt that you'd do the same when an issue comes up with one of your knives. You're trying to make it in a very competitive field that's crowded with people of high character. I see no reason to choose to do business with somebody that makes excuses when there are so many that will stand up and take responsibility and make things right. It would have been very easy for you to come on here and say "These are my beliefs and they have nothing to do with my knives. I'm sorry that you don't agree with me, but please don't write me off without giving me a chance." or "Those pictures were taken out of context, but I can see how they paint a pretty ugly picture. I'm sorry that what popped up on my account has given you the impression that it has, but I would appreciate the chance to earn the business of anybody that would see it in their heart to give me that chance." Either one would have been owning the situation that you created and attempting to move past it. Instead you offer excuses and rationalizations that just don't hold water. It's disappointing, but not surprising.

As for the picture of you and your wife that's been called into question. I don't see anything wrong with that picture. It doesn't follow the knife safety that I try to follow and instill in my kids, but it seemed like both of your were comfortable with it and goofing around. I don't see why anybody else would think it their place to involve themselves in your relationship with your wife, but that's just me.
 
So the white pride thing also goes back 1200 years? Confused.

Sent from my LG-H811 using Tapatalk
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top