eBay bans sale of ‘racist’ family board game!

London, Jan 29 (ANI): The sale of a family board game based on sitcom Dad’s Army has been prohibited after a swastika was found on its box. Internet auction site eBay
removed the game, labelling it “offensive material” since it could stir racial and religious hatred and incite violence. David Davidson, a retired bank worker from Droitwich, Worcestershire had offered the game for 99p. The 1970s game has players contending to be the first to get their platoon across the board and includes famous characters from the show like Captain Mainwaring and Sergeant Wilson.The box has arrows containing swastikas and one bearing the Union flag, like in the opening titles of the TV programme.



Set in the dark days of 1940 the battle of France and the miracle of Dunkirk have just happened. The country calls on all men to take up arms to fend off the dreaded Hun. This is the story of men too old to join the army, but willing to join the Home Guard; a force made up of bankers, bakers, butchers and undertakers and anyone else they could find.

Whats racist about this game at all?  I think that society in a whole that is offended by this game which was based on the above TV Show that was latter made into a board game needs to get their heads out of their asses and get over the fact that there is a 'Swastika' on the box/game.  People like those at ebay/elsewhere need to stop trying to re-write history etc.