3:10 pm - 04/20/2012
The Anti-Defamation League in Philadelphia publicly objected Thursday to a T-shirt being sold by Urban Outfitters Inc. that bears a symbol that critics said resembles a Star of David patch that Jews in Nazi Europe were forced to wear during the Holocaust, sometimes on concentration camp uniforms.
“We find this use of symbolism to be extremely distasteful and offensive, and we are outraged that your company would make this product available to your customers,” Barry Morrison, regional director of the ADL, wrote in a letter e-mailed to Richard A. Hayne, chairman and chief executive of the retail corporation headquartered at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. ADL shared the letter with the media.
A phone call to Urban Outfitters spokesman Ed Looram was not immediately returned.
The shirt was brought to the ADL’s attention earlier in the day by an affiliate in Chicago, Morrison said. The $100 Kellog Tee — a yellow cotton shirt from the Denmark-based Wood Wood label — features a six-pointed blue patch embroidered to a chest pocket. It was available on the company’s website as of Thursday afternoon.
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Urban Outfitters hits a new low
The Anti-Defamation League in Philadelphia publicly objected Thursday to a T-shirt being sold by Urban Outfitters Inc. that bears a symbol that critics said resembles a Star of David patch that Jews in Nazi Europe were forced to wear during the Holocaust, sometimes on concentration camp uniforms.
“We find this use of symbolism to be extremely distasteful and offensive, and we are outraged that your company would make this product available to your customers,” Barry Morrison, regional director of the ADL, wrote in a letter e-mailed to Richard A. Hayne, chairman and chief executive of the retail corporation headquartered at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. ADL shared the letter with the media.
A phone call to Urban Outfitters spokesman Ed Looram was not immediately returned.
The shirt was brought to the ADL’s attention earlier in the day by an affiliate in Chicago, Morrison said. The $100 Kellog Tee — a yellow cotton shirt from the Denmark-based Wood Wood label — features a six-pointed blue patch embroidered to a chest pocket. It was available on the company’s website as of Thursday afternoon.
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White people think it's okay to wear Native American head dresses at parties.
Anti-semetic acts and slurs are still occurring.
Chris Brown still has fans.
Humanity can keep on surprising you with its stupidity.
lmao
i haven't seen a single post like this on my twitter, facebook or tumblr. that's reprehensible!
for reference
The first is "political", second ????, third is immigrants, fourth something about the bible??, fifth says homo-sexual and I legit have no idea for the final one.
political
professional criminals
immigrant
bible ??? - guessing members of the church/clergy
homosexuals
Edited at 2012-04-20 07:37 pm (UTC)
top row from left to right: political, career criminals, immigrants, something I can't read, homosexuals, something else idk
Side: Base Colour/ Recidivous/ Punishment Battalion (I don’t really know what this means)/ Jew/ Special Badge (for polish people or germans that were in sexual relationships with jews etc)
--> it's quite interesting because it becomes obvious how thorough and systematic the nazis were
And I have to add: I’m so appalled that many people in this thread don’t think it’s a big deal or that “it isn’t even a star” – the placement and shape are similar enough.
political, career/professional criminal, emigrant, Bibelforscher (old name for Jehovah's Witnesses), homosexual, anti-social
vertical row:
fundamental colours, badge for recidivists, convicts of the punishment battalion, badge for Jews
The bottom row thing is for "special badges" (from top left to right):
Jewish "Rassenschänder" (racial shame, meaning sexual relationships between "Aryans" and Jews), Rassenschänderin (for females), flight risk, inmate number,
Polish, Czech, Wehrmacht affiliate, some special brown braclet for some inmates
And the thing on the bottom right is to show the right order of the badges.