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Urban Outfitters, Not So Urban

Urban Outfitters, the overpriced store selling cheap clothing and furniture has also resorted to cheap tactics.  They’ve now deemed themselves to be the moral judges of what is proper.


This is going around the Internet rapidly and I just had to get my voice in there.

BitchMedia:

Urban outfitters recently yanked a t-shirt from their shelves, citing “bad press” as the reason. Was it one of their infamous “Voting Is For Old People” shirts? Or possibly the one with money signs encircling the phrase “Everyone Loves A Jewish Girl?” Or maybe one of the many shirt images that have been stolen from independent companies and designers?

Nope.

Urban Outfitters pulled their “I Support Same Sex Marriage” shirts from their stores and online shop after only a week of availability.

It’s their store. I get that, but what I don’t get is what they do find moralistically sound.  Urban Outfitters is not so urban.  They’re replacing equal rights t-shirts with sexist t-shirts? 

The t-shirt says, “Fathers, It’s up to you to preserve  your daughter’s virginity!”

STFU Homophobes said:

This is not ancient times, people. Women’s voting rights were officially (and quite belatedly) passed in 1920. It is almost 100 years after that. Wake up and fucking protest this bull shit. This is not the first time that Urban Outfitters have been protested against. In 2003, they were forced to stop selling such items as GHETTOPOLY – an imitation Monopoly game that features Black American stereotypes and thus racist undertones. Also in 2003, they released a T-shirt with the phrase ‘Everyone Loves a Jewish girl.’ surrounded by dollar signs. So, really, why pay for over-priced American Apparel anyway?

“Ghettopoly”? “Everyone Loves A Jewish Girl” surrounded by dollar signs?  Did you get a good look at that t-shirt?  Come on! Don’t give these people your business.


Urban Outfitters, can you say, Boycott? I sure can. Send them a little love by way of email or phone: Contact them here. Or Write: Urban Outfitters Direct 30 Industrial Park Blvd. Trenton, SC 29847

Phone: (800) 959-8794

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22 comments

By Anomaly – May 31, 2010

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  • Dan

    @ Anomaly: Don’t tell me you are going to let this racist JCM267 get away with that. If you have any scruples, you will draw the line with that comment and remove it. I’m not Jewish, but my Grandfather was. Next to Britain, Israel is one of our closest allies and the best friend we have. Just because Obama snubs Israel, it is no excuse to allow a racist rant here.

    • Jessaaaay

      I’m sorry, but anyone that wishes to speak out against a group of people as a whole is considered “racist,” correct? But blacks can say just about anything to and about whites as they want. JCM267′s comment is actually quite accurate. Why don’t you pull your head out of your ass and look at the facts. Look what the jews have done to people. And don’t throw the phrase “anti-semite” out casually, do you even know what that means? I have nothing against jews, but when I see as a whole what israel has done to Palestine, and how the US is Israel’s BITCH, I don’t have much respect. So get the fuck off your macho USA bullshit, pull your head out of your ass and think before you speak. And I’m sure you’d like to turn this into how I’m a left wing freak blah blah when actually, I am not. So shut the fuck up, and go on somewhere. Thanks. :)

  • Dan

    Who cares? First of all, it’s freedom of speech. Second, if the shirts aren’t selling they can yank ‘em. They are running a business not an opinion poll. I see much more provocative t-shirts being hawked on drudge report and nobody complains about that. The gay marriage thing is the holy grail of liberals. Nothing gets them more stirred up. My liberal friends were over last night and they had their friends daughter over with them. Now I was well aware that this little girl has two Mommy’s and my liberal friend Knew that I knew that. Nonetheless, she had to remark to me several times about little Meghan’s family situation. She was trying to make the point to me that two lesbians with a kid are the same as a married couple and gee look how normal this is. Look – I don’t care what people do in the privacy of their own homes, but you aren’t going to convince me that gay people living together is the same as “marriage”. It’s not the natural order of things and it shouldn’t be treated the same. If gay people want to live together and have the same rights as married people that is fine – but it’s not marriage.

    Now if the shirts said “Bush lied, people died” or had a caricature of Condi Rice as a monkey now that would be just fine wouldn’t it?

  • JCM267

    Jews are greedy, exploitive, bigoted supremacists. They hate they goyim and run the major ethnopolies – Wall Street and Hollywood – that are ruining the financial well-being and moral health of this country. They control our Middle East policy and are waging a slow-motion genocide against the Palestinians.

    So it seems like the shirt does make a few valid points. I’m not sure it’s worth buying, but if I am going to boycott anything it will be Jewish and Israeli owned businesses.

    • Anomaly100

      @JCM267: How ironic that I write a post about homophobes and I get bigoted comments & homophobic ones. Small minds think alike.

  • http://twitter.com/socialism4usa/status/15157490852 Uncle Sam

    Hard to boycott a business when you never traded with them in the first place. http://ow.ly/1SiQd #p2

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  • ChrisG

    LOL, this is the dumbest post I have seen yet. Why would you boycott a clothing company for yanking something that is a hot button issue? It was probably yanked BECAUSE no one was buying them. Get a life already.

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