Clean (*KAFF*) Mexico (*HACK*) City (*WHEEZE*)
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.
I am definately buying one of those - for each of the kids. LOL.
Only because New Mexico hire so many illegals to do all the cleaning...
However, if you've actually been to Mexico, you get the joke...
susie
Nevertheless, as Old Friend pointed out, Mexico is still generally cleaner than "Filthydelphia."
Haha, I've never been to philly. :)
susie
How about a shirt that says, "My Right Of Free Expression Does't Give A Rusty Peso About Your Right Not To Be Offended, Pancho!"
Semper Fi = Semper Fidelis = Always Faithful = United States Marine Corps motto and salutation...
Semper Fi
Let's buy the ADL a bunch of tickets to the next taping of "Mind of Mencia"...
Clean (*KAFF*) Mexico (*HACK*) City (*WHEEZE*)
Check out the price of ratty looking jeans at Urban Outfitters.
I was up in Santa Fe all day today, and the air was much cleaner than that! Based on my observations today, the T-shirt is correct. Too bad they're backordered.
The group wants the Philadelphia-based retailer to get rid of all its inventory.
They are.
1 shirt at a time.
DUH!!
I'm from San Diego originally. Every state has there litter problems, but they pale in comparison to Mexico.
LOL !!! (two year RA here)
Well the places I've been in Mexico were dirty. But so is much of Philadelphia. ("Philadelphia - America's Anus!")
Marginally, I reckon!
Hard work chasin' off Texan's one at a time. Our liveability index went up double digits when Squantos left and took all those ratty 4x4's with him! :)
Is that San Hoser? ;)
Hey! Hey!
"Moi" is being subjected to prim'n proper by the paupers of ponderosa ?
Oh bother said Pooh as he chambered another round.......:o)
Actually I was tired of Tony Anaya's IBM goobermint modernization plan......(itty bitty mexicans), packed up my stuff, turned in my badge and sold my pile of tablazon adobe to some trendy kalifornicator for 10 times the going price an left.
Back in 1991, we had the newly-elected Bernalillo County Sheriff call a news conference to announce that he had just named his wife (a rookie deputy sheriff) as his undersheriff because "we have two kids in college and we need the money".
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