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01-06-2012, 03:16 AM
Dubai Gym Owner Apologizes After Backlash Over Holocaust-Themed Fitness Campaign
A gym advertisement with a explicit Holocaust connection? What could possibly go wrong?
We thought Newt Gingrich’s comparison of failing to be on the Virginia Republican primary ballot to Pearl Harbor was bad. Now a gym owner in Dubai thought a picture of the infamous Auschwitz concentration camp would be a great advertisement poster for his gym.
http://img585.imageshack.us/img585/3360/circuitfactorygymauschw.jpg
He thought wrong.
Phil Parkinson, 32, posted a picture to the Circuit Factory's Facebook page of the railroad tracks leading to Auschwitz with the caption "Where your calories go to die." Great slogan by itself? Sure. But not when attached to an image like that. The Nazis slaughtered 1.3 million people at Auschwitz.
From The National, in the United Arab Emirates:
Parkinson said he used an image of Auschwitz to advertise weight-loss and exercise classes because "it's like a calorie concentration camp."
A gym advertisement with a explicit Holocaust connection? What could possibly go wrong?
We thought Newt Gingrich’s comparison of failing to be on the Virginia Republican primary ballot to Pearl Harbor was bad. Now a gym owner in Dubai thought a picture of the infamous Auschwitz concentration camp would be a great advertisement poster for his gym.
http://img585.imageshack.us/img585/3360/circuitfactorygymauschw.jpg
He thought wrong.
Phil Parkinson, 32, posted a picture to the Circuit Factory's Facebook page of the railroad tracks leading to Auschwitz with the caption "Where your calories go to die." Great slogan by itself? Sure. But not when attached to an image like that. The Nazis slaughtered 1.3 million people at Auschwitz.
From The National, in the United Arab Emirates:
Parkinson said he used an image of Auschwitz to advertise weight-loss and exercise classes because "it's like a calorie concentration camp."