The far-out space-nut bloggers win again! Rachel Ray Dunkin’ Donuts advert pulled after bloggers complain:
The US chain Dunkin’ Donuts has pulled an advert following complaints that the scarf worn by a celebrity chef offered symbolic support for Islamic extremism. The online advert for iced coffee featured the well-known US television chef Rachael Ray. She was wearing a black-and-white checked scarf around her neck that resembled a traditional Arab keffiyeh. This fashion choice incensed at least one prominent conservative blogger, who said it evoked extremist videos. The blogger called the garment “a regular adornment of Muslim terrorists appearing in beheading and hostage-taking videos”.
The blogger is Michelle Malkin. She says of the scarf scandal:
Left-wing bloggers responded with complete scorn, deliberate mischaracterizations of the debate, and then outrage when Dunkin’ Donuts commendably showed sensitivity to the concerns and pulled the ad.
What crap, I say. Now, this past winter, early spring, living in Warsaw, Poland as I do, just about every teenager I saw walking around wore this same scarf. I noted this to my wife, saying that the kids in Warsaw are dressing like Yasir Arrafat. She saw this, too, but said that this is the style nowadays. They don’t know who Arafat was, she said. I agree. Let the kids wear the “terror scarves.” Aparently our European betters are not afraid of the terror scarf.
DAVID’S UPDATE: Instapunk takes exception to Josh’s post here.
I think Rachael Ray didn’t know what she was wearing in that ad. I think the retard that put that scarf on her didn’t mean anything by it. The ad shouldn’t have been pulled.
It doesn’t mean that the ignorance isn’t objectionable. All the Polish kids in Warsaw wearing a kaffiyeh can go fuck themselves if they know that they’re wearing a Palestinian headscarf as a fashion statement. And those who don’t know need to be educated. I’m not afraid of a kaffiyeh, but when I see someone wearing one, I see red.
What if our European betters started wearing a swastika again? Would we just write it off as “the style nowadays” or object? Yes, I DID make a Nazi comparison, and yes it IS apt in this case.
I personally have zero tolerance when it comes to fashion statements popularized by people who wish to murder Jews.
Thank you! But what gets me is that people STILL think it was the real deal scarf of a terrorist, or whatever. It wasn’t even close. Michelle Malkin should be ashamed of herself; dimwit. I was in Target last night and snapped a picture of a scarf and blogged about it as a tease.
You’re full of it this time, Waterglass.
Here’s the Instapunk entry that trashes your misguided position:
http://www.instapunk.com/archives/InstaPunkArchiveV2.php3?a=1387
Your blog is often insightful. Not this time.
I try to rectify the insightfulness as a comment to your post, InstaPunk (if that IS your real name).
Please tell me you used the phrase “our European betters” ironically. America was created, mostly, from the better part of Europe, the monarch-hating, freedom-loving, sweat-of-our-brow types, (yeah okay, plus some religious nuts and a bunch of Africans who had no say in the matter).
The only reason European continent isn’t one giant concentration camp is that America dropped a million tons of bombs on these barbarians and dragged them kicking and screaming up to a minimum standard of civilized behavior. They are busily trying to undo that progress as we speak, by collapsing their welfare state around them, importing millions of hostile muslims to shore up their failing birth rates and walling off their EU gerontocracy from public accountability.
These people will be at each other’s throats in a few decades and then they’ll be begging for American help again. Our betters? Please. Of course they’re wearing the keffiah, they’re jew-hating trash. Europeans, in other words.
I can vouch for Josh 100% when I say that he means “our European betters” in ironic fashion. As often happens with blogs that have been around for a while, we developed a certain lingo here that we and the three regular readers will understand, but newcomers may not get.
Okay, well I sort of thought he must have, but I couldn’t tell from the context for sure. Anyway, a little time spent bashing the Eurotrash is never wasted.
I can vouch 100% that David is right when he vouched for me 100%. The term “European betters” is used as sarcasm. However, I do not use the term “Euro-trash,” because I simply do not feel that way about people from Europe. “American betters” would be the same form of sarcasm, in my view.
I vouch 110% Josh’s vouching 100% of my vouching for him 100%.
So according to my math, I’m ahead at least 10,900% in the vouching department.