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'Mexican Man' costume offends Latino shoppers, community groups
Oakland Tribune ^ | 10/28/2009 | Sean Maher

Posted on 10/29/2009 9:44:55 AM PDT by DogByte6RER

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To: AZFolks

“I just don’t care who gets offended. When I was a kid my dad was a member of the Sons of Italy. They protested that Liggett and Meyers cigarettes sponsored Elliot Ness. Dad said if they didn’t like that they should do something about Italian involvement in organized crime. I am sick and tired of outrage from anyone, including my own. Lets just grow up.”

Well said.


41 posted on 10/29/2009 10:10:59 AM PDT by AuntB (If the TALIBAN grew drugs & burned our land instead of armed Mexican Cartels would anyone notice?)
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To: cripplecreek

I’m goin’ as Dr. Bogus Pachysandra; Muslim Cleric/Proctologist!


42 posted on 10/29/2009 10:11:40 AM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: Overtaxed Patriot

I thought Juan Valdez was Colombian.


43 posted on 10/29/2009 10:11:51 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: AZFolks

“Italian involvemnet in organized crime”. You mean that ficticious Italian fraternal organization that has been negatively protrayed in the media? I suppose you think the bakery in my neighborhood burned down because they forgot to take the Football Cards out of the oven? Sonny Mecurio was a legitimate business man! Stata Zeit!


44 posted on 10/29/2009 10:12:27 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: DogByte6RER

Really? the Mexicans at the restaurant I work at think this kind of thing is hilarious. They think some dress habits of white and black people are funny too. They actually call fat guys Gordo, and skinny guys Flaco. They aren’t offended by anything. In fact, if they give you a nickname, it means they like you. It’s not the Mexicans, it’s the stupid Marxist Chicanos. Mexicans do not like Chicanos.


45 posted on 10/29/2009 10:12:31 AM PDT by Republic of Texas (Socialism Always Fails)
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To: DogByte6RER

Give me a break. Mexicans have got to be the most easily offended people in the world.

What if they made Switzerland Man and dressed him in lederhosen and stockings. Would anyone be offended?

Amish Man with suspenders, a hat and a beard.

Ethnic costumes are now “offensive”?


46 posted on 10/29/2009 10:12:50 AM PDT by ozarkgirl
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47 posted on 10/29/2009 10:13:08 AM PDT by reagan_fanatic (Hope....Change...Food Stamps!)
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To: ozarkgirl

If they were actually Americans (culturally) instead of hyphenated immigrants, anchor babies or illegals they would not be insulted.


48 posted on 10/29/2009 10:20:07 AM PDT by JMS
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To: ozarkgirl

It’s not a poncho, it’s a cape, add a mask and call him Zorro.


49 posted on 10/29/2009 10:22:30 AM PDT by Old North State
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I thought Juan Valdez was Colombian.

he moved to Mexico and took up the drug trade - he was perfectly positioned

50 posted on 10/29/2009 10:23:29 AM PDT by san pancho
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To: DogByte6RER
Speedy Gonzalez is mice-ona non grata now, Thanks to the good doers. He is banned everywhere now.

,/p>

51 posted on 10/29/2009 10:25:43 AM PDT by dancusa (Czars Czuck)
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What if they made Switzerland Man and dressed him in lederhosen and stockings. Would anyone be offended?

Guess it depends whether he's French, German or Italian.

52 posted on 10/29/2009 10:26:16 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: JMS
Agreed. As an American of German descent, my family and I often laugh at the German stereotypes because it “is funny”. Blazing Saddles, Beerfest, and many war movies. Just as long as you offer us a beer, we can be downright congenial :) Prost!
53 posted on 10/29/2009 10:26:25 AM PDT by MotorCityBuck (Page 73, Johnson, Navin)
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To: DogByte6RER

Who’s next? The Worlds Most Interesting Man, drinking his Dos Equis?


54 posted on 10/29/2009 10:28:09 AM PDT by dancusa (Czars Czuck)
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LOL.

Q: What do you get when you cross a Mexican and a German?

A: A Beaner-Schnitzel


55 posted on 10/29/2009 10:29:54 AM PDT by MotorCityBuck (Page 73, Johnson, Navin)
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To: DogByte6RER

Hmmm... How long will it be before some lefty journalist writes, “We’re all Mexicans now”?


56 posted on 10/29/2009 10:31:06 AM PDT by SaveTheChief (Obama lied, America died.)
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To: DogByte6RER
Her husband, Carlos, said he could not remember the last time he'd seen something so blatantly stereotypical.

Allow me to refresh his memory:


57 posted on 10/29/2009 10:33:21 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: DogByte6RER

good lord...tacky my ass...give him a pistol and call him Pancho Villa.


58 posted on 10/29/2009 10:35:44 AM PDT by wardaddy (folks, these freepathons are taking too long tightwads, shame on us in front of the kooks)
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To: DogByte6RER

btw...I have that shirt bought it from the son of Elvis’s tailor Bernard lansky at the Peabody last year...cool.


59 posted on 10/29/2009 10:37:53 AM PDT by wardaddy (folks, these freepathons are taking too long tightwads, shame on us in front of the kooks)
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To: DogByte6RER

Somebody needs to remind this offended woman that Mexican is not a race.


60 posted on 10/29/2009 10:57:17 AM PDT by 3catsanadog (If healthcare reform is passed, 41 years old will be the new 65 YO.)
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