Dunkin Donuts recently pulled an ad with Rachel Ray in response to massive calls for boycott that have erupted recently after a blogger by the name of Michelle Malkin incited a flagrantly flawed fascist fuss of fashion over this:
For those of you that don't know where the offense is taken, take a wild guess...Go 'head, try...Can't think of anything? Well, it's the scarf...That's right, apparently wearing that scarf is Rachel Ray's way of saying, "I heart terrorists!"...The reasoning? Because Palestinians wear similar scarves called keffiyehs and, as we all know, all Palestinians are terrorists therefore making Mrs. Ray a terrorist-supporter for wearing said scarf...
Number 1, it's not even a keffiyeh...you can't see it from the picture, but if you look around for articles about it, it's been made known that the thing is a damn paisley print piece of fabric...Number 2, even if it was a keffiyeh, so the fuck what? "Terrorist" is not a nationality or ethnicity...By that same screwed up logic, "going green" is in support of all the homegrown terrorist and anarchist individuals/groups who are raging against the machine here in the States, what with all the capitalism and industrializations sapping the very life, balance, and purity from Gaia, Mother Earth, or whoever you want to call it...The thing is worn to endure the arid and sandy elements of the Mid-East; it's like a hat or a jacket or sunglasses...And Number 3, it's instances like these that show this country has yet learned its lesson in cultural relations...The vast and egregious blanket of slander thrown about like rice at a wedding is sad...It's fear that can easily be quelled with learning and understanding...Yes, the keffiyeh has grown to be a symbol of Palestine, of its culture, and of its people...But it is no more different than a dhoti in India or a kimono in Japan...
These are elements of a way of life...
...and though the interests of given region can be loosely associated with its own culture, that does not make it one and the same with the other elements by far...If I were to speak Arabic, would that make me also a terrorist-sympathizer? If it were Mandarin or Cantonese, would I then be a Communist? Perhaps speaking German would make me a Nazi?...No, the possibility that you cannot place an inherent face on hatred or the enemy is jarring and places many into a searching form of denial...People are so twisted up with fear that they need something to focus it upon in order to keep from bursting...Something so sure fire and equivalent to what it is that they are frightened of to begin with...Salem had the Witches, the 40s and 50s had Communists, and now we have the Terrorists...An accusation is as good as a conviction, and the irony of it all is that this is in the name of supposed Democracy and, better yet, the upper echelon of the American way...Fred the Baker is turning in his grave...
2 comments:
this is exactly why i wanted you doing this with me. i had no clue this was going on. it's nonsense as usual. these people need to something else to do rather than just sitting around and picking out stuff that is mildly offensive to only a few people.
They taked about this foolishness on the View. Yeah, I watch the View. I could not believe that Dunken Donuts bowed down to the pressure of this. So now we have to watch what we wear. Subliminal messages in a scarf? What the F? Oh, well. This is exactly the type of think I was talking about when I asked why it is that the wants of a few out way the needs of many (or something like that). IT's all about the almighty dollar, I guess.
Post a Comment