Pic by Jeff Weinsier, WPLG.

“Kelly Wagner had to sit in her car and take a deep breath after she saw the face mask full of swastikas being sold inside a Shell gas station in Fort Lauderdale. ‘After the initial shock – horror – I asked the woman behind the counter, ‘Is Shell actually selling swastika face masks?’’ Wagner told Local 10 News. ‘And she outright said yes. Her response to me was, ‘Whatever. We sell what it is that they give us to sell.” It’s unclear how many of the masks were sold at that Shell located at 6201 Powerline Road, on the corner of Powerline and Cypress Creek Road. Local 10 News reached out to Shell, and we bought the last one of those masks, which also includes Nazi eagle insignia.”

“‘I’m deeply offended by it,’ said Rabbi Arnie Samlan of the Jewish Federation of Broward. ‘I find this deeply offensive. ‘What we have in the United State is a lack of understanding and knowledge of what Natzism stood for and of the symbols used by the Nazis.’ After purchasing the mask off the shelf, Local 10 News confronted the Shell station’s manager Mohammad Hossin about it. ‘I have no idea,’ he said when asked if he knew what the symbols meant. ‘You don’t know what a swastika is?’ we asked. ‘Trust me, I have no idea,’ Hossin said” WPLG reports.

The most likely explanation for all this is some run down Chinese factory with no idea of the significance of the Nazi swastika just cut whatever patterns they had and dumped them in a box to sell at American gas stations for 99 cents each. However, if it was somehow ordered intentionally it raises an interesting question: Was it meant more for the kind of assholes who think having to wear a mask is basically like being a Holocaust victim, or is it for actual Neo-Nazis showing support for their team the same way a Miami Dolphins fan would wear a Dolphins-branded mask?