you just can't win.

Wear a scarf and you'll be accused of having a pro-terrorist, anti-semitic agenda

AND

you'll be accused of insulting a religion, a country, and a people for wearing a keffiyeh as a fashion statement

when all it is is a checkered scarf.

Dunkin Donuts removes an ad campaign at great expense due to a handful of complaints and a threatened boycott. Now people are calling to boycott them because they caved.

Again, you just can't win with some people.

Woman wears an item of clothing that a few people complain about, boss asks her not to wear it, said woman cries because of "mean" boss and some two-bit journalist manages to write a 2-page article about it.

Wow, way to write a non-story, you'd think there was nothing better to write about.

Sidenote, I always assumed it was the manager/bosses prerogative to dictate what their employee's wear?

The story is because of the previous Dunkin Donuts fiasco.

Dunkin' Donuts gets in trouble because some people accuse them of having a political agenda that they felt was evident because of a scarf which they labeled a keffiyeh even though it wasn't.

We, and the majority of the sensible sane people out there commented how insane Michelle Malkin was and how inflamatory/prejudicial they were being for seeing things that aren't there.

Now you have the opposite occurring.


Again you have someone just wearing a scarf, but instead of getting in trouble for being accused of a political agenda, she and her store is catching grief over the opinion of a handful or less of people who are upset because she doesn't have a political agenda.

That is the amusing part. The part that you can't win. You get in trouble if you are thought to have a political agenda and you get in trouble if you don't have a political agenda.

Wearing a checkered scarf has now (in at least 1 Palestinian-Australian's point of view) become a religious insult unless you are wearing it for political reasons.

My problem with occurrences like this is that they are only stories because the media makes them into stories.

Race issues sell newspapers and create traffic for online news sites. My feeling is that stories like this that the media drive forward and sensationalize only detract from real racial issues.

The whole thing is absurd. Sometimes a scarf is a scarf and cigar is a cigar.

not a scarf.

Clothes have a religious meaning to me. I find it terribly offensive when an attractive woman wears clothes for non-religious reasons. Who do I complain to, to get them to take them off?

So I take it they don't approve of my jacket either?




But how about my shoes?

this is ridiculous. it's not like she's wearing a blatant, unmistakable hate symbol like a swastika. she's wearing a damn scarf. scarves are very fashionable these days. i would never have understood what the big deal was had i not seen eljay's posted picture. even then, so what? people are so up in arms about race and politics when they really shouldn't be. it is a HUGE waste of time and energy to go around and find and assert offense into innocent happenings.

You can buy those scarves everywhere in NYC for years now. Street vendors, newstands, Canal street merchants. It's like a fashion statement run amok.

I have yet to see a sign saying "If you wear this scarf, you are making a political statement".

What nonsense.