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By: snarly

snarly — Wed, 17 Sep 2014 20:45:17 +0000

I, snarly, feel less passionate about this than sumac does. Please do not stone me (or riddle me with real or virtual bullet holes), but my feeling is that this is one shirt, sold on the one-of-a-kind vintage portion of the site. It was not a line of shirts. Even if we think Urban Outfitters is lying about not deliberately distressing the one shirt to make it look bloody, I'd distinguish between one shirt ("distressed" either by one dimwit outside the company or one dimwit inside the company, with deliberate echoes of violence or not, and put up in the vintage section by another dimwit in the company) and the LINES of shirts Urban Outfitters has actually manufactured that are undeniably offensive. The company has produced actual vast numbers of anti-Semitic, anti-Irish, and pro-eating-disorders shirts, and insulted the Navajo and ripped off independent artists. I've boycotted UO personally for years because of the company founder's history of donations to Rick Santorum. And yet I worry that we're too quick to be outraged and we risk burning out. I worry that issues like this (ONE SHIRT! not a line! ONE SHIRT! When it's a LINE, we can talk!) (I realize I'm being sorta arbitrary here!) distract us from meaningful societal problems we can and should work to solve. Like, maybe law-enforcement brutality, warmongering and gun violence. (All that said: I support sumac's outrage. There is plenty to go around, and your charming hosts can differ and remain buds.)

By: Kevin Graves

Kevin Graves — Wed, 17 Sep 2014 11:28:53 +0000

I was hoping you would tackle this CACA!

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