can i get a list of t-shirts that are okay for arabic speakers?
Slim sends this link the same day the nytimes blogs on a similar story.
Look, t-shirts have become personal billboards - where's the rub? Oh, I see - only darkies aren't allowed to express themselves on t-shirts. Because it scares people? No. That is in fact the excuse, the reason is of course because the self expression is dangerous. great. thanks for the heads up on that massa. is the next step to worry about miscegenation? you know, i hear that's how they will eventually win - taking our daughters and making half breed sons that can pass.
The whole problem with the forced resignation of Almontaser is that the message being sent is one that can never, ever be won: we control your language. guess what whitey? you don't - you never will either.
Lost on everyone (at least apparently everyone in nyc) and certainly those who hope to take the word away from those who created this particular use of it is that the word becomes even more someone else's by right.
To try and stop language is as impossible as stopping thought.
Look, t-shirts have become personal billboards - where's the rub? Oh, I see - only darkies aren't allowed to express themselves on t-shirts. Because it scares people? No. That is in fact the excuse, the reason is of course because the self expression is dangerous. great. thanks for the heads up on that massa. is the next step to worry about miscegenation? you know, i hear that's how they will eventually win - taking our daughters and making half breed sons that can pass.
The whole problem with the forced resignation of Almontaser is that the message being sent is one that can never, ever be won: we control your language. guess what whitey? you don't - you never will either.
Lost on everyone (at least apparently everyone in nyc) and certainly those who hope to take the word away from those who created this particular use of it is that the word becomes even more someone else's by right.
To try and stop language is as impossible as stopping thought.
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You are so naive! If he wears that t shirt on the plane, the terrorists have already won.
a voice from the hundred acre wood! i find it more than a little amazing that someone would call me naive in the same sentence as the expression "the terrorists" without using a ;), but it's entirely possible that pooh's imaginary friend actually thinks what he posted as a comment. surely the absurdist logic used in the rest of the sentence means we are to take the omission of the ;) as an oversight.
either that or the revolutionary movement to establish new hundred acre woodistan just got a new member.
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