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Macy's Pulls Potentially Offensive T-Shirt (Offensive to Hispanics)
MyFox Dallas ^ | 7-23-07

Posted on 07/24/2007 8:09:59 AM PDT by Bladerunnuh

Macy's department store is no longer selling a T-shirt that might offend some members of the Hispanic community.

According to Macy's, one of its goals is to provide an exclusive line of clothing geared toward Latina shoppers looking to express cultural identity through fashion.

However, one such item might have actually offended potential Hispanic customers, so the company pulled it during the weekend.

The T-shirt, which reads

(Excerpt) Read more at myfoxdfw.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: hispanics; macys; pc; retail; tshirt
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To: Millee

LOL!


81 posted on 07/24/2007 10:21:08 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA (Truth : Liberals :: Kryptonite : Superman)
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To: Bladerunnuh

I get your screen name. “Him say you Bladerunnuh.”


82 posted on 07/24/2007 10:25:27 AM PDT by YourAdHere (Buy My Book, Bradypalooza, from Amazon.Com)
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To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA

Why is he going to mow a part of lawn that was already mowed?


83 posted on 07/24/2007 10:26:34 AM PDT by Clam Digger
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To: Clam Digger

I’m thinking he isn’t a Rhodes Scholar....


84 posted on 07/24/2007 10:33:58 AM PDT by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA (Rudy, Mayor of Sanctuary City)
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To: YourAdHere

hey you got it. Good for you. Here, sci fi fan who has discriminating taste— check this out between 2.14 and 2.24 I laughed till I almost choked

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6XwOmjb0IU


85 posted on 07/24/2007 10:38:27 AM PDT by Bladerunnuh
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To: Bladerunnuh
have you ever noticed that in Japanese animation, the characters always have any hair color other than black, their eyes are always huge and any color other than brown?

No


86 posted on 07/24/2007 10:52:41 AM PDT by Oztrich Boy ("You Maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!")
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To: Tribune7; Bladerunnuh
(Granted her eyes are green)

And there's the dark haired blue-eyed girl
Girls, guns, and fast cars, when will Disney learn that's the secret?

87 posted on 07/24/2007 11:05:32 AM PDT by Oztrich Boy ("You Maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!")
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To: Oztrich Boy

You know, when you get right down to it, hair and eye color probably aren’t all that important to anime artists


88 posted on 07/24/2007 1:07:34 PM PDT by Tribune7 (Live Earth: Pretend to Care)
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To: Bladerunnuh
And have you noticed that the Japanese characters often possess gratuitous cameltoe?
89 posted on 07/24/2007 1:23:57 PM PDT by -=SoylentSquirrel=- (I ate Kangaroo once: I found it very tough and rubbery.)
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To: CAluvdubya

So they want to have the Mexicans express their cultural identtity.
Folks should picket outside the Macy’s stores
for their English - American, German - American, etc
and proud of it.

Why is it that Mexicans can force their culture over Americans in the United States and American and European cultures have to stuff it.


90 posted on 07/24/2007 1:28:47 PM PDT by SoCalPol (Duncan Hunter '08 Tough on WOT & Illegals)
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To: Bladerunnuh

Couldn’t see the eyes, mine were caught by her sub-equatorial “suction!”


91 posted on 07/24/2007 1:33:27 PM PDT by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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To: billygoatgruff
Mexican-Americans (pause) go to night school (pause) to learn Spanish (pause) and get a C. (Beaners.....Beaners.....Beaners.....)

ROTFLMAO . . . There's only a few of us left!

92 posted on 07/24/2007 6:41:54 PM PDT by NaughtiusMaximus ("Eat yer groatcakes, Porgy!" "Heavy on the thirty weight, Mom!")
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I Am That Man from Nantucket

93 posted on 07/25/2007 9:58:31 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Profile updated Monday, July 23, 2007 https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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