Rachael Ray's Scarf: We need to stop catering to special interests.
In case you have not heard, Rachael Ray appeared in an online ad for Dunkin' Donuts. No big deal right? Wrong. The ad has been pulled from the air. Why? Rachael Ray's scarf. Apparently some of the ultra right wing and some of the ultra Christians took offense to Ray's scarf. How can a scarf be offensive? Apparently her black-and-white fringed scarf looked like a Muslim scarf, or kaffiyeh. Her wearing this scarf apparently was a sign of support for Muslim extremism and terrorism. To quote part of the AP article on the matter,
"Critics, including conservative commentator Michelle Malkin, complained that the scarf wrapped around her looked like a kaffiyeh, the traditional Arab headdress. The kaffiyeh, Malkin wrote ina column posted online last Friday, "has come to symbolize murderous Palestinian jihad. Popularized by Yasser Arafat and a regular adronment of Muslim terrorists appearing in beheading and hostage-taking videos, the apparel has been mainstreamed by both ignorant (and not-so-ignorant) fashion designers, celebrities, and left-wing icons.""
Now, here's my solution. Perhaps our society should stop listening to our own variety of terrorists, if I may loosely call them that. See, the more we side-step problems by responding to our own ignorant citizens, the more we limit our own freedoms. The US centers around being "PC" yet by doing so all we do is cater to the most radical of the differing subdivisions amoungst our people. Race, sex, sexuality, religion.... The more we make it taboo to state things--or wear things--the more ignorant we become, as we start framing things like, oh say, Rachael Ray, as a terrorist. Run. Hide. She'll throw a tomato at you! I mean seriously, what is the world coming to!
I'm waiting for SNL or someone to spoof the incident with an ad in which everyone appears naked (privates smeared out of course) as a response to all articles of clothing being too dangerous to wear due to differing groups of public outcry.
"Critics, including conservative commentator Michelle Malkin, complained that the scarf wrapped around her looked like a kaffiyeh, the traditional Arab headdress. The kaffiyeh, Malkin wrote ina column posted online last Friday, "has come to symbolize murderous Palestinian jihad. Popularized by Yasser Arafat and a regular adronment of Muslim terrorists appearing in beheading and hostage-taking videos, the apparel has been mainstreamed by both ignorant (and not-so-ignorant) fashion designers, celebrities, and left-wing icons.""
Now, here's my solution. Perhaps our society should stop listening to our own variety of terrorists, if I may loosely call them that. See, the more we side-step problems by responding to our own ignorant citizens, the more we limit our own freedoms. The US centers around being "PC" yet by doing so all we do is cater to the most radical of the differing subdivisions amoungst our people. Race, sex, sexuality, religion.... The more we make it taboo to state things--or wear things--the more ignorant we become, as we start framing things like, oh say, Rachael Ray, as a terrorist. Run. Hide. She'll throw a tomato at you! I mean seriously, what is the world coming to!
I'm waiting for SNL or someone to spoof the incident with an ad in which everyone appears naked (privates smeared out of course) as a response to all articles of clothing being too dangerous to wear due to differing groups of public outcry.