No, I understand being insulted. But if what Subway is doing counts as an insult, then my fellow conservatives are far more thin-skinned than I thought. PC as I understand it means to avoid certain language for fear of offending people.
Many Americans are fat, porkers, bloated, obese, grotesquely huge, gluttons. Anyone offended? Get over it. Boycott me or whatever else you want to do.
I agree that not doing business with a company that insults you is basic self-respect, but getting insulted over something like this is almost Kerryesque. It sounds like the crybaby whines about releasing pictures etc we constantly hear from the Kerry camp.
It's not the fact that Americans are fat. I'd object to it too if Saxon Math tried to sell their materials overseas with the slogan "Why are Americans stupid?"
It's the very fact that Subway is attempting to capitalize on Germany's extreme anti-Americanism. So, yes, it is anti-American.
That's a particularly uninsightful characterization. John Kerry, in fact, doesn't much care if America is insulted. After all, he's let Michael Moore, the epitome of liberal American self-hate, sit in Carter's box.
If America and important national symbols actually mean something to you, why aren't you more protective of them?
I would say using a quote from Michael Moore is anti-American. You don't think they paid him to use his quote? I somehow don't think that money will find its way to pro-American causes!
"but getting insulted over something like this is almost Kerryesque."
You forgot to say "in your opinion". So, keep eating there, it is a free country, isn't it? In my opinion, they went to another country and insulted us, a country that doesn't like the United States, they won't get my business any longer. See no problem, you're happy eating at a place that holds the United States up to ridicule and I'm happy sending them an email telling them they will no longer get my "fat" American money. What a great country!