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Newsweek: Preppy Look is Racist, Classist
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/ken-shepherd/2008/08/20/newsweek-preppy-look-racist-classist#new ^

Posted on 08/20/2008 2:02:53 PM PDT by chessplayer

Leave it to the liberal print media to find some way to kill everyone's Olympics buzz.

For instance, did you know that the choice by the U.S. Olympic Committee to have Ralph Lauren stitch the threads for Team USA's opening ceremonies uniform was an unfortunate nod to racism and classism and a futile, nostalgic clinging to America's waning WASP empire? That according to Sameer Reddy (pictured at right, photo via Newsweek) in an August 20 online exclusive for Newsweek

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2008olympics; aads; antiamericanism; cheeseandwhine; fashion; liberalbigot; racism; ralphlauren; teamusa
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To: Jack Black

I have not read that rag in so many years.
susie


21 posted on 08/20/2008 2:20:02 PM PDT by brytlea (Obama--Jimmy Carter's Second Term)
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To: peggybac
These little metro-sexual, greasy haired, America-hating twirps make me sick.

They're unhappy and they're determined to make the rest us us unhappy, too.

He needs to get a life.

22 posted on 08/20/2008 2:20:30 PM PDT by ryan71
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To: RPTMS

RE: “This settles it! From now on, I’m buying all of my clothes at Brooks Brothers!”

Absolutely! My father always said I was “searching for the Golden Fleece” — Brooks Bros. insignia —

So be it — that, and the Polo pony and the Lacoste crocodile are perfect! Always loved the Preppy look — happy to help bring it front and center again.


23 posted on 08/20/2008 2:20:33 PM PDT by CaliforniaCon
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To: chessplayer

Poor Sameer Reddy....his article demonstrates a crucial need for the following:

#1. Red meat in his diet.
#2. Some in-depth counseling with a licensed professional.
#3. A few REAL friends.
#4. Regular physical exercise.
#5. A girlfriend.
#5. A new hair stylist (traditional word was barber)

I’m sure that several of you can add to the list....or even modify it as needed.

;-)


24 posted on 08/20/2008 2:20:34 PM PDT by SumProVita ("Cogito ergo sum pro vita." .....updated Descartes)
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To: chessplayer

In other news. Libs still think Promiscuity, Abortion, Communism, anti-Americanism, Religion-hating are still AOK.

As long as you are a particular group of people. E.G. Minority (AKA Black or Hispanic. Asians Need not apply) unemployed, on welfare, have children out of wedlock, does drug, has previous felony and most of all DEMOCRAT.


25 posted on 08/20/2008 2:21:17 PM PDT by a_chronic_whiner (Wisdom is doing the opposite of what a Liberal would do.)
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To: chessplayer

Sameer? What kinda preppy name is that?


26 posted on 08/20/2008 2:22:24 PM PDT by Mamzelle (In the cool, dark quiet of my mailbox, John McCain asks me for money)
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To: peggybac
To be perfectly honest, the guy looks queer.

That hair style looks like a way of signaling 'I'm queer,' kind of like a secret handshake among members of a closed group.

This is just a hypothesis, but this is the impression I get.

27 posted on 08/20/2008 2:23:52 PM PDT by the anti-liberal
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To: chessplayer

Never gonna give you up, [Racist epithet}....

28 posted on 08/20/2008 2:24:42 PM PDT by Textide
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To: SumProVita

7. A change in sexual and political orientation.


29 posted on 08/20/2008 2:24:47 PM PDT by Poser (Willing to fight for oil)
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To: chessplayer

Black Prep Students Told 'Bang, You're Dead'

40 African-Americans Receive Death Threats at Elite N.H. School

By SUSAN DONALDSON JAMES

March 7, 2008 —

New Hampshire's elite St. Paul's School has seen generations of blue bloods pass through its bucolic campus, but the prep school's pristine image took a hit recently when black students received death threats in their school mailboxes.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/Story?id=4407734&page=1

30 posted on 08/20/2008 2:24:53 PM PDT by Notwithstanding ("You are either with America in our time of need or you are not" - Hillary from Senate well 9/12/01)
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To: chessplayer

That statement by News-Weak is racist in itself .....


31 posted on 08/20/2008 2:24:53 PM PDT by SkyDancer ("What Our Enemies Couldn't Do To Us Our Liberal Democrat Politicians Will")
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To: Poser

That’s what the counseling is for. ;-)


32 posted on 08/20/2008 2:25:49 PM PDT by SumProVita ("Cogito ergo sum pro vita." .....updated Descartes)
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To: jeffc
re: Gee! And I thought Ralph Lauren designed clothes that would sell.)))

Lauren is a Jew with a highly romanticized yen for the old New England aristocratic/athletic set. Not a bad romance to have. That's where all the riding boots and jackets come from. I still buy a few casuals from the Lauren line. Every year there's a soft and beautifully tailored chambray shirt I have to have, no matter how many I already have.

I remember being a very poor young woman who longed for one of Lauren's Fair Isle sweaters...they were $400 a pop, and that's not adjusted for inflation.

33 posted on 08/20/2008 2:27:59 PM PDT by Mamzelle (In the cool, dark quiet of my mailbox, John McCain asks me for money)
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To: redpoll
The last refuge of a scoundrel is an accusation of racism.

Great tag line for you!!

34 posted on 08/20/2008 2:28:50 PM PDT by Las Vegas Ron (Election '08, the year McCain defined the word "dilemma")
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To: chessplayer

JUST ANOTHER SAMEER CAMPAIGN!!


35 posted on 08/20/2008 2:29:33 PM PDT by babble-on
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To: SumProVita

#6. A life.


36 posted on 08/20/2008 2:30:28 PM PDT by Sudetenland (Those diplomats serve best, who serve as cannon fodder to protect our troops!)
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To: jeffc

Something is wrong with a lot of the blacks that i know. Most of them really like Ralph Lauren clothes. We even trade information on where they are on sale.

When they are on sale they are really good value - by the way we are still talking about preppy style.

It may be due to the fact that most of the blacks I know aren’t gangbangers.

I’ll bet Brooks Brothers and Gant are really depressed about this.


37 posted on 08/20/2008 2:38:40 PM PDT by .44 Special (Táimid Buarch)
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To: chessplayer

Cool beans! Now I can hate myself!!!

38 posted on 08/20/2008 2:38:50 PM PDT by Alas Babylon!
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To: Textide

For a long time, I actually thought Rick Astley was black!


39 posted on 08/20/2008 2:40:18 PM PDT by RPTMS
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To: Islander7

Didn’t see the cloths but had to have better than the pants at the knees for the guys and crack on top, cheeks showing on bottom for girls that would have been considered “trendy and hip”.


40 posted on 08/20/2008 2:40:52 PM PDT by Domandred (McCain's 'R' is a typo that has never been corrected)
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