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wait, I missed a huge chunk of this story... The rack mount pedals was a racist joke? was there something spelled out in the pedal names? why am I so fucking clueless?

This is bascially the whole story, afaik: https://www.musictech.net/news/11-thing ... eter-kirn/

I guess it’s possible to miss the connection between the very (unambiguously) antisemetic cartoon and the pedal if you’ve not spent time in the UG Werewolf Berserkercore Goatfago scene, but I’d hardly be calling it a “deep dive”.

the business practices are quite awful, but on seeing the offending mock-up pedal i have to say that as anti-Semitism it's borderline. antisemitic images of Jews generally feature a large, tall, "hooked" nose, not a Pinocchio extenda that arguably simply depicts the cartoon sniffing corks. gonna have to give this one an "unclear," and possibly an "unclean" as well. if they aren't anti-Semitic, they're certainly not Kosher. trust, me, i am very, very sensitive on this topic...my second wife was Jewish, and it totally tweaked my understanding of the Holocaust when i saw a photo of dead bodies in a camp and thought "she looks like Aunt Doris." if i thought it was clearcut, i'd be calling for shunning.

that said, if you're even bordering on anti-Semitism you suck. i'm over Behringer now.

I do get sick of the complaint that "liberals call EVERYONE a Nazi these days." If you spend enough time on the internet in certain subcultures you will encounter a shocking amount of full blown, self identifying and proud of it, Nazis. I can't really blame anyone for not wanting to bother navigating the sketchy grey areas around the periphery of that.

but where else will I get my cool patches and cassettes?

fuck behringer