 | Would you wear this t-shirt?dcgere | August 29, 2011 at 5:37 pm | Tags: Osama bin Laden | Categories: 9/11, Culture War, Islam, Terrorism | URL: http://wp.me/pKuKY-92L |
Osama bin Loggin' T-Shirt is "Controversial"
Via Seattle PI: A T-shirt featuring a musclebound logger and Osama bin Laden is proving controversial in Hoquiam, where the annual Loggers Playday 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. "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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