Madonna Uses Swastika in Concert: Political Statement, or Desperate for Attention?

But everything about Madonna screams desperate for attention.

As talent fades, find something else to spotlight.

she's getting older and the real modonna is coming out.

I am Jewish and I support Madonna 100 percent.

you're not jewish at all.

We're talking about Madonna here... how much is this going to make her? Probably more than showing her breast.... seen that too many times.

so what, you give her a pass?

Didn't say that. the question was is it a political statement or desperate for attention and, in my opinion, this was just another Madonna thing. Now.. it's abhorrent that she used the swastika in this fashion; it's poor taste and for some, it certainly is a reminder of a horrendous time in history and worse, for some, a punch in the gut because they or a loved one felt the brutality of WW2 concentration camps. No.. no pass. Everyone who has a ticket to see her perform, I'd suggest, request a refund and boycott her future activities. But.. we both know that won't happen.

LOL No, that would never happen. Too many brain dead nuts out there.

great response. thanks

Although I've never really followed her career very closely, I have always had a weird admiration for Madonna. She invented her persona from the beginning and has gone through many new versions of herself. She is a survivor whose career has far outlasted most of her contemporaries. I believe there is an old show business saying that negative attention is better than no attention or, something to that effect. So what if she is doing these things to get attention. How many other public figures have played the same game? She may be a bit extreme but that is Madonna. Remember when she used to wear her under garments on the outside over her clothes?

thats actually a left facing sauwastika that is used by Buddhists and many other religions and cultures. a nazi swastika is always right facing. but she was probably still using it to get attention cause many people see that symbol and only think of the nazi and skinheads no matter if it left or right facing or if it really is a nazi swastika or one from a culture different than our own

I think she's still using various tactics to re-invent herself................again.

true

...But also a plea for attention. She knows how to get people's attention, and she knows how to make her point. I think she's doing both.

As always, art can't hurt you. Unless it doesn't match your sofa.

there is no excuse for that

i always heard she was a gay rights activist. they had segregated camps where they held gay people too. They did this to families with children, they killed children. they killed or almost killed gay people, jewish people, slavs, they killed anyone who wasn't what they believed to be a pure race and anyone who didn't stand with them. If she had of acted like she does in front of them they would have killed her too. heck i think killed would have been a release for what they'd put her through.

First a nipple, now a swastika? She's gotta get it together. The woman's a hot mess.

She's a headcase. Sing Madonna, just friggin sing.

Yeah! full of striving for public attention! Look at that sign, it is not Nazi symbol.
It is Sanskrit sign or American Indian sign as good luck... Do your home work!

she's finnaly realised that at 50 odd she's as sexy as a shriveled bollock so has decieded to get attention in other ways.

Nipple, Ass, Swastia, 20-something year old chew toy...check, check, check, check. -.-

"Desperate for attention"
Once an attention whore, always an attention whore.

You're correct, she even makes me sick!! Can she retire gracefully?? Old singers like her are a disgrace, they make themselves look like a laughing stack!!

Many people that live in EUROPE have bad feeling about the religious symbol (swastika) !! I wouldn't want stir up the these memories !!

She seems to always be doing something to get our attention... And it has! But not for the right reasons. She seriously needs to grow up and act her age.

as always

Go Madonna. These people who are on Le Pen's side either are facists or they don't know who she is.

I wish there had been a " both" answer. she is an aging rocker who is looking for anything to keep her in the news.. and she is obviously anazi as well.

i don't think she's a nazi. i think she's an idiot. if she was a nazi they'd kill her for some of the stuff she's done on that stage in the past.

True.. and even an old broad like her doesn't deserve to die.. Good Point!

she did that out of ignorance.

Nazi's don't go around opening orphanages in Africa, adopting black children and dating minority men. Not obviously a nazi.

Than why do that and make herself look ridiculous and BAD HEARTED. There's a saying that goes: What you write with your hand, you erase with your elbow...this is what she's doing, about what you just said! Lots of people do good quietly, just like her and stay low profile. WITH HER IT'S ALL FOR THE ATTENTION!!!!!!!

Michelle said she wasn't a nazi. She didn't defend her behavior.

No, people looking for attention do that.

The far right party in any country are close to Nazi practice.

Ironic....as Nazi-ism is based on socialism which happens to be a far left/liberal political belief. Oops...cats out of the bag now I suppose...

nazi-ism is based on what the white man did to the indian and the african here in america. aparthied is also. american imported thier terroristic way. read your damn history. opp... cats out of the bag

The confusion between, and the conflation of, Nazis and socialists is due to the Nazi Party's name, which was in full the National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP). When Hitler joined the DAP in the early 1920s and quickly became its most prominent member and leader, the party's basic politics were not much different from those that later marked the Nazis' rise to power -- anti-Semitic, anti-socialist, anti-communist, opportunistic and wedded to violence -- but they were murky. The party was also quite small, one of dozens of right-wing populist formations at the time. By upping the nationalist ante, scapegoating national minorities and adding "socialist" to the party's name, Hitler found he was better able to attract disenchanted WWI veterans and workers left jobless during the hard economic times that followed the Treaty of Versailles. To better distinguish his party and its ethos from the more established socialist and communist entities at the time, and to reflect its intense nationalism, he also added "national" to the name.

Socialism was the Nazis' greatest threat to power. In the years before the fated election that led to Hitler becoming chancellor, the Nazis' SA brownshirts engaged in incredibly violent, sometimes deadly, attacks on socialists and communists, in addition to their favored Jewish targets. Socialists and communists were some of the first concentration camp inmates.