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Irritated Youth Voice Their Annoyance; JCPenney Pulls Provocative Garb
Agape Press ^
| 12/23/03
| Allie Martin and Jody Brown
Posted on 12/24/2003 5:47:05 AM PST by truthandlife
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To: baltodog
I'm only 15, but I'm gonna' wear this. Since you're 41, if you look at me, you're a pervert.
Hey no problem. Just stay out of my way.
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posted on
12/24/2003 7:02:04 AM PST
by
AxelPaulsenJr
(Excellence In Posting Since 1999)
To: don-o
Michelle Malkin wrote a great piece about this. Here's ane excerpt from it:
What if the T-shirt had the phrase "PUBLIK SKOOLED" printed on it, with a silhouette of a ghetto public-housing complex emblazoned underneath? No doubt J.C. Penney would have balked at such a blatantly contemptuous image. The National Education Association and minority civil rights brigade would have made a federal discrimination case out of it.
But of course, no such T-shirt dissing the failed public school monopoly is sold on tees.com or at J.C. Penney. Why not? Because when it comes to bigoted insults in our politically correct culture, some institutions and groups get a pass. Despite criminally low test scores, enormous waste, unsafe classrooms, and administrative incompetence, the public schools remain a hallowed and untouchable fixture. The snickering snobs of the education establishment smear those who seek to protect their children from this corrupted system as ignorant and intolerant anti-government radicals.
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posted on
12/24/2003 7:04:29 AM PST
by
Hildy
To: don-o
Yep.
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posted on
12/24/2003 7:05:15 AM PST
by
Skooz
(Jesus Christ is Lord. Deal with it.)
To: Cultural Jihad
Hey CJ, the proper functions of government are to "establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity".
I really don't think the founding fathers meant for the US Government to establish a strict moral code of conduct upon citizens outside of initiating force or fraud against people or their property.
I for one am glad that the market solved this problem naturally instead of through government force.
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posted on
12/24/2003 7:05:59 AM PST
by
bc2
(http://www.thinkforyourself.us)
To: truthandlife
I wish men like J.C. Penney, George Eastman (Kodak),Chester Carlson (Xerox), et al, could come back
to see what these modern day, million dollar, CEOs have done to their companies.
To: Hildy
Retailer J.C. Penney was hit by consumer wrath after airing a TV ad showing a mother encouraging her young daughter to dress provocatively. The back-to-school spot, called "Attitude Adjustment," shows the girl trying on hip-hugging jeans. "You're not going to school dressed like that, are you?" Mom demands. She The MOM??? not the GIRL???
then yanks the jeans lower on her daughter's bare midriff. Ouch! Parents complained the spot had way too much attitude. J.C. Penney pulled it within 4 days.
Words fail me.
To: Cultural Jihad
The government has a responsibility to enforce the laws. But it does much more than that. It sets a moral standard, based on the knowledge that some practices have evil consequences.What a load of BS that statement is. Your moral standard is defined by Bill nad Hillary and a group of criminals in the US congress and George Ryan of Illinios? No wonder things are so screwed up.
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posted on
12/24/2003 7:11:14 AM PST
by
Protagoras
(Putting government in charge of morality is like putting pedophiles in charge of children.)
To: truthandlife
Why get fancy? Just make shirts that say "Worthless Piece of Trash" and have done with it.
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posted on
12/24/2003 7:12:40 AM PST
by
ClearCase_guy
(France delenda est)
To: All
SPEAKING OF T-SHIRTS - Have any of you seen this great one:
SAVING YOUR ASS
Like it or Not
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posted on
12/24/2003 7:15:13 AM PST
by
Hildy
To: Hildy
Hey, no problem. Been there. I've been known to commit an error two in my adult (read "a dolt") life.
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posted on
12/24/2003 7:41:18 AM PST
by
IYAS9YAS
(Go Fast, Turn Left!)
To: baltodog
Since you're 15 and dressed-up like the dog's dinner:
I'm gonna stand by and laugh like hell when someone nails you.
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posted on
12/24/2003 7:41:57 AM PST
by
solitas
(it only LOOKS like I'm p¡$$¡ng on the First Church of 'pillhead'...)
WHEN is Penney's going to learn - they've been through this before. Dummies! Or they're still trying to pull a fast one. Remind me to NEVER shop there again.
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