Retailer asked to shed anti-Mexican T-shirt

Waterbury Republican-American ^ | July 23, 2005 | Associated Press

[Graybeard58]

"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.

[Squantos]

Here's more on the same......Stay safe !

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1448684/posts?page=61

[xmm0]

"New Mexico, Cleaner than Regular Mexico."
HAHAHA, I briefly had a lapse and thought about our insurgency on the border when I read this. Instead of interpreting "New Mexico" as a state, I thought of it being a renaming of the USA. It seems funnier that way.

"Voting is for Old People"
Aww, cute. :D If only it read "Voting is for Informed People"

[skip_intro]

"Dirty can be interpreted figuratively and literally."

That someone can say something this stupid about a t-shirt and be taken seriously indicates that this country is rapidly approaching the end of the line.

This is even beyond "it depends on what the meaning of is is".

[Mamzelle]

Would appear to me that they are equal-opportunity offenders...

[Freebird Forever]

Well at least it isn't France.

And the Mexicans rise in celebration of that fact every Cinco de Mayo.

[Hexenhammer]

It IS dirty! Have they never actually been to Mexico?

[Frank_2001]

Well I agree with you, but that would not fit into the PC worldview, where the Third World is a virtual Garden of Eden, and the industrialized world,( especially the evil greedy Americans:) are the major polluters.....

[43north]

I'd like to see wide distribution of a T-shirt with the logo:

"Welcome to America. Now learn to speak English!"

[SALChamps03]

So, if everyone is offended by it, I'm guessing the free market will take care of the problem.

[SALChamps03]

Oh yes...that is perfect.

[muir_redwoods]

Pretty inecpensive advertising strategy, come up with one new offensive T-shirt a year and make the news for a week or so.

[hattend]

I've lived both in New Mexico and West Texas. New Mexico may not be perfect but at least it's not West Texas.

You took the words right off my keyboard.

I love New Mexico. Since I left in the 80's though it's gone Blue State on us...see if that can be reversed.