[Murphy63]

They are worried that the Dolls will be taken Hostage by insurgents.

[FormerACLUmember]

Tempest in a Teapot LOL.

[retrokitten]

The storybook describes how a Mexican-American girl named Marisol Luna moves to suburban Des Plaines after her parents fear for her safety.

I've been hearing this story all over talk radio the last couple of days, but I never heard them mention that the family is supposed to move to Des Plaines! LOL!!! Yeah, that's ALOT better then Pilsen! LMAO!

[LibFreeOrDie]

Have these same Dems ever spoken out against Gangsta rap lyrics?

[highlander_UW]

A few years back my daughter asked if I could look up some information about American Girl Dolls...warning to the wise...don't allow your children to do an internet search on their own...the pornographers are all over those keywords.

[Semper Paratus]

When GI Joe gets free is going to come over and kick their ass.

[SmithL]

Picking on a doll.

My, my, my.

[Clemenza]

Used to hit 18th Street in Pilsen for the annual art fair. I also used to enjoy the Mexican bakeries and restaurants along Cermak. Nevertheless: 1. The nabe is dangerous at night, especially the farther west you go towards Little Village/Cicero and 2. Many second generation Mexican Americans have moved to places like Des Plaines and Addison to get away from the criminal element.

[gridlock]

Crime in the beat around Harrison Park included three murders and 41 aggravated batteries in 2004.

If there were three murders and 41 aggravated batteries in my neighborhood in a year, I would move, if I could. This is a no-brainer.

[ScottFromSpokane]

In the book, which accompanies the $84 doll, Marisol's parents tell her "It's time we get out of this neighborhood.''

That's scandalous!

84 bucks for a doll?

[peacebaby]

Another example of political correct bullsh*t! The stories of each of the American Girl are meant to teach young girls the diversity in which each of the American girls grow up.

[Faraday]

Pilsen is not specifically named but the family is described as living across the street from Harrison Park at 18th and Damen.

Bishop's Chili Restaurant used to be located at 18th and Damen. It was the best chili, I've ever had. Used to eat there several times a week while in graduate school. Unfortunately, it's no longer there.

[Raven6]

A "Truth Hurts" bump...

[A Ruckus of Dogs]

the neighborhood in a storybook as "dangerous.''

Sheez ... storybooks have sure changed since my time.

[CzarNicky]

you couldn't pay for better comedy than what is done by our own politicians.

[Rippin]

The Mattel folks should just explain that the danger came from right wing Republicans trying to suppress the hispanic vote. Then they'd realize it was a politically correct story after all. (Eyes roll)

[Polyxene]

These are probably the same people who blasted Dan Quayle for dissing Murphy Brown! SHEESH!

[dead]

Juana Guzman, vice president of the Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum, called the book "insulting to the neighborhood'' and complained that the story line carries the message that one has to "move to the suburbs to be safe.''

Clean up your neighborhood and stop complaining.

An American Girl spokeswoman said the danger reference is to street traffic.

Seriously, that is the biggest line of bullsh*t I’ve ever read, and I’m on their side!

[bowzer313]

I just knew that the American Girl dolls were going to get lousier as they began to incorporate the worst aspects of "inclusivity" and political correctness to make more money. It happens to everything that becomes a marketing machine, like night follows day. I did think, though, that they would have stuck with a good thing by trying to make their "hispanic" entry more of a historical type, like, maybe, "Maria, the little Mexican girl from Chihuahua, with her father, Jose, who is a Juarista revolutionary fighting with Zapata", or something like that.

[Houmatt]

Rep. Luis V. Gutierrez (D-Chicago) Tuesday invited the president of the company that makes American Girl dolls to visit Pilsen after the firm angered some Hispanics by describing the neighborhood in a storybook as "dangerous.''

No, what is dangerous are these hypersensitive imbeciles. Sorry, Charlie, but there are neighborhoods across the land that are considered "dangerous". Just yelling about it does not make it less so.