Wow, he's really taking that whole Jewish self-loathing thing to a new level.

Anyone else enjoying the fact that this dude's last name is Deutsch?

Was the Maryland blogger the first to break the story? I'm sure our fine editors have done so already, but please send the links to the many Consumerist articles to the Herald. Let's get some credit here, for both this blog and the readers who sent in photos over the past month!

I like that Nazism is a recent "trend" in Europe. Well, not so much LIKE, but, you know.

Good thing we have bloggers out there to protect us from perhaps having to see dangerous shirts with accidental "racist" connotations!

I hate Miami Jewish Nazis.

Now can we please let this thing die already?

"Anyone else enjoying the fact that this dude's last name is Deutsch?"

I am very much, thank-you.

So he's Jewish. Big deal. Kramer is Jewish too.

Kind of.

We hear.

The blog mentioned in the article does credit Ben and consumerist.com as the originator of the story.

Here's what the ADL has to say about the symbol:

http://www.adl.org/hate_symbols/neo-nazi_skull.asp

The two do look a little different, but largely the same...

Wait, is he claiming he designed the shirt? Didn't he rip off the design from that other smart-ass "designer"?

Shep Fairey surely would like a couple of words with Mr. Deutsch regarding the almost-wholesale rip-off of his design, regardless of totenkopf inspiration...

Deutsch said he doesn't know what he'll do with all the extra T-shirts, which have also started cropping up on eBay.

I'd expect they will be crated up and sent off to some far-flung, exotic locale, Bali or Phuket.

Or a skate shop in Vancouver...

Ha. He got it from a European trend book, off of ANOTHER SHIRT SOMEBODY WAS WEARING. Hack.

First, a disclaimer: The nazis were despicable monsters whose tour de force was murdering millions of people, especially children. I do not defend them in any way.
Okay, as to the skull shirts. More ridiculous political correctness. Or, should we just call a spade a spade; more censorship. It's crap. Gee, a skull. Maybe we should make Disney close the Pirates of the Carribean thing; oooh, skulls! Take a look at any goon on a Harley-Davidson. For sure there'll be a skull there somewhere.
What is with this? Do you know you can get any kind of sex-toy imaginable on eBay (hurray!) but that they refuse to run ads for Nazi memorabilia? CENSORSHIP! POLITICAL CORRECTNESS!
Bah, HUMBUG!
(another disclaimer: I do not collect, nor own, any Nazi memorabilia. But, hey! WWII happened, and a lot of people collect and study any number of things about it. So what?

This is much a case of banning a "skull" as banning a swastika is banning a "cross".

It's not just a skull - it's a specific skull logo.

In regards to Hossofcourse's comment, he credits the Consumerist in a later blog post, and not for origination of the story but rather for some ancillary help.

I have not followed the story too closely, but a quick search shows that The Consumerist did not originate the story, and it was in fact Rick Rottman.

This quick fact check brought to you by idle time.