Posted on 05/22/2008 5:45:23 PM PDT by Nachum
We know Urban Outfitters sometimes makes shirts with stupid sayings, but this one really takes the cake -
The mega-chain had to halt sales of a certain new tee after pretty much everybody reacted in outrage.
The shirt features a Palestinian boy (which can be deduced by the Palestinian flag and map of Palestinian territories next to him), crouched, holding a large gun with a couple friends behind him doing the same, with the word "Victimized" beneath him, and "Fresh Jive" above him (the shirt was actually designed by Fresh Jive, a company out of LA), and a white dove near the top.
Urban has come out and said that they didn't mean to upset anyone, and have pulled the shirt from shelves and their website completely. Fresh Jive has this response to criticism on their site.
But no word on why they apparently thought this was funny or ironic or whatever they thought in the first place.
Is anyone surprised? It is Urban Outfitters after all.
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The same Urban Outfitters that was selling Kaffiyehs a couple years ago as anti-war scarves. Yeah, Arafat was anti-war, so I want a tablecloth for my head too.
The OD green ones work good for scarves while hunting.
They're usually loose knit cotton, they trap way too much scent.
i believe the founder of urban outfitters supported santorum and is
a big pro-life guy.
WIFE-O-BUCKHEAD
the irony is the CEO/founder of Urban Outfitters is openly Republican.
He should of known better. But he owns a counter-culture clothing chain.
Don’t know Urban Outfitters, but it sounds like it would be a fictious store in a Grand Theft Auto game. The shirt design looks like it could be something from that world as well.
Interesting read:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hayne
He didn’t used to be conservative. Then he got rich and started paying taxes. :-)
“They’re usually loose knit cotton, they trap way too much scent.”
so sight in for a longer range:)
Good hunting!
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