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<http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/author/dcgere/> Would you wear
this
t-shirt?<http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/2011/08/29/would-you-wear-this-t-shirt/>
*dcgere <http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/author/dcgere/>* | August
29, 2011 at 5:37 pm | Tags: Osama bin
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<http://fellowshipofminds.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/osama1.jpg>Osama bin
Loggin' T-Shirt is "Controversial"
Via Seattle
PI<http://blog.seattlepi.com/thebigblog/2011/08/29/osama-bin-loggin-t-shirt-would-you-wear-it/>:
A T-shirt featuring a musclebound logger and Osama bin Laden is proving
controversial in Hoquiam, where the annual Loggers
Playday<http://www.cityofhoquiam.com/fest_lp/>festival is underway.
The shirt, sold by Hoquiam businesses to promote the
community event, *features a shirtless, flag-tattooed lumberjack glowering
over a log-tied bin Laden*. If that doesn’t make the message quite clear
enough, the logger’s red baseball cap features the letters “USA.”
The Loggers Playday festival happens on Sept. 10, just one day before the
10-year anniversary of the terrorist attacks of 2001. Event organizers said
they wanted to commemorate the anniversary and mark the death of bin Laden
earlier this year.
Not everyone thinks the shirt is such a good idea. “I find your Osama shirt
offensive,” one critic wrote on the event’s Facebook
page<http://www.facebook.com/pages/Hoquiam-Loggers-Playday/147580688601313>.
“*It breeds racism and hate. Your shirt sends a poor message to your youth,
and to the entire country.*”
Others don’t seem to mind. “*Don’t like it don’t buy it*,” another Facebook
fan wrote. “If you like it buy one. *Freedom works even if some folks hate
it.* Think some of you folks should find something actually useful to whine
about, like 20 percent unemployment on the harbor. Loggers have nothing to
be happy about the past 15 years or so.”
The Facebook group’s administrators are asking comments be directed to an
email address and warning that “personal attacks against others on this page
will not be tolerated and those comments will be removed.”
But deleting comments has also proved controversial. From one critic on
Facebook: “I find it so hard to believe that in the midst of an online
community’s debate circling around freedoms that the admin had the gall to
delete not just any but nearly all of the comments about a controversial
topic.”
How is this shirt "breeding racism"? This is making fun of a terrorist that
was the mastermind behind 9/11. Talk about offensive...
DCG
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