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Group Decries Urban Outfitters T-Shirt
Yahoo ^ | July 22, 2005 | Deborah Yao

Posted on 07/22/2005 4:18:33 PM PDT by Enterprise1788

PHILADELPHIA - The Anti-Defamation League has asked retailer Urban Outfitters to stop selling a T-shirt that reads: "New Mexico, Cleaner than Regular Mexico."

"This is saying that the country of Mexico is a dirty place," said Barry Morrison, regional director of the civil rights group. "Dirty can be interpreted figuratively and literally."

The group wants the Philadelphia-based retailer to get rid of all its inventory.

Urban Outfitters did not immediately return calls for comment Friday. The retailer, which targets 18- to 30-year-olds, has run into similar controversy before.

Two years ago, it stopped selling a game called "Ghettopoly" after protests by black civil rights leaders. Last year, it halted sales of a T-shirt that read "Everyone Loves A Jewish Girl," surrounded by dollar signs, after the Anti-Defamation League objected.

A "Voting is for Old People" T-shirt angered pro-voting groups.

Urban Outfitters operates 77 stores in the United States, Canada, Ireland and the United Kingdom. This year, first-quarter profits rose by 60 percent to $27.4 million, compared to the same period a year ago.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Mexico; US: New Mexico
KEYWORDS: ismexicoclean; makesickoseedy; tshirt; urbanoutfitters
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I think the Anti-Defamation League needs to find better things to do with their time.
1 posted on 07/22/2005 4:18:33 PM PDT by Enterprise1788
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To: Enterprise1788

I gotta get that shirt before they pull it from the stores.


2 posted on 07/22/2005 4:19:59 PM PDT by thoughtomator (How many liberties shall we give up to maintain the pretense that we are not at war with Islam?)
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LOL! Well thats why its called New Mexico...
3 posted on 07/22/2005 4:20:04 PM PDT by Echo Talon (http://echotalon.blogspot.com)
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To: Enterprise1788

Knock off of the A&F t-shirts that got them in trouble.


4 posted on 07/22/2005 4:20:24 PM PDT by durasell (Friends are so alarming, My lover's never charming...)
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To: Enterprise1788

They have their heads up their nether passages..


5 posted on 07/22/2005 4:20:39 PM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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OMG...lol that's kinda funny and so frikkin sad that a joke can't be had anymore.


6 posted on 07/22/2005 4:20:48 PM PDT by SouthernFreebird
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To: Enterprise1788
There's a new Mexico?
7 posted on 07/22/2005 4:21:38 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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It's , I say it's a joke son.

A takeoff on gasolene advertising and quite clever too.

I grow weary of PC enforcement.


8 posted on 07/22/2005 4:21:49 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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"New Mexico, Cleaner than Regular Mexico."

Guess they've never driven down ol'66 through Albuquerque or through certain parts of Las Cruces.

9 posted on 07/22/2005 4:22:44 PM PDT by Clemenza (JJesus CChrist MMade SSeattle UUnder PProtest)
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To: Enterprise1788

I guess the ADL hasn't been to Mexico lately...

Perhaps they've lost their ability to smell or see..


Semper Fi


10 posted on 07/22/2005 4:22:47 PM PDT by river rat (You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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To: Enterprise1788
This is clean?


11 posted on 07/22/2005 4:23:04 PM PDT by Revolting cat! ("In the end, nothing explains anything!")
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"This is saying that the country of Mexico is a dirty place," said Barry Morrison, regional director of the civil rights group. "Dirty can be interpreted figuratively and literally."

Well...it is!

Oh...silly me...can't have something like truth interfering with the oh-so-sacred political correctness, now can we?

12 posted on 07/22/2005 4:24:32 PM PDT by Prime Choice (Thanks to the Leftists, yesterday's deviants are today's "alternate lifestyles.")
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To: Enterprise1788

As defamation is speech, why do they not call themselves what they are, the "Anti-Speech-We-Don't-Like League"?

Because-- their game is one of fraud and politics (not to be resundant by putting those together...).


13 posted on 07/22/2005 4:25:07 PM PDT by SteveMcKing
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I've been to Mexico and New Mexico. New Mexico is cleaner.
Barely.
14 posted on 07/22/2005 4:25:28 PM PDT by digitalbrownshirt (http://digitalbrownshirt.blogspot.com)
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To: Enterprise1788
An official with the Anti-Defamation League wants the retailer to stop selling the shirt -- because "WHAAAAAAAAAAAA."
15 posted on 07/22/2005 4:27:06 PM PDT by Psycho_Bunny (Every evil which liberals imagine Judaism and Christianity to be, islam is.)
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The Mexican Litter Problem
16 posted on 07/22/2005 4:27:31 PM PDT by T Minus Four (Some assembly required.)
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I'd seen this one on the web but I had no idea it was sold in retail stores as well...
17 posted on 07/22/2005 4:27:54 PM PDT by Fixit (comedian.blogspot.com)
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To: Enterprise1788

Both New and old Mexico are cleaner than Philly.


18 posted on 07/22/2005 4:28:45 PM PDT by OldFriend (MERCY TO THE GUILTY IS CRUELTY TO THE INNOCENT ~ Adam Smith)
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To: Enterprise1788
"This is saying that the country of Mexico is a dirty place," said Barry Morrison, regional director of the civil rights group.

Hey libs: It's called "Speaking Truth to Power". ;-)

Honestly, I wonder if anyone else can appreciate the rich irony in seeing "civil rights" groups trying to silence messages that make them uncomfortable.

A "Voting is for Old People" T-shirt angered pro-voting groups.

Hey, that one's OK. Anything that keeps the mindless MTV crowd away from the polls can't be that bad.

19 posted on 07/22/2005 4:28:58 PM PDT by inquest (FTAA delenda est)
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http://www.urbanoutfitters.com/shopping/product/detailmain.jsp?itemID=9042&itemType=PRODUCT&iProductID=9042


20 posted on 07/22/2005 4:30:35 PM PDT by Restorer (Liberalism: the auto-immune disease of societies.)
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