Comments on: Calling all Angelenos: Boycott Dunkin’ Donuts!

By: Another National Donut Day Come and Gone | Los Angeles Metblogs

Another National Donut Day Come and Gone | Los Angeles Metblogs — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 16:29:33 +0000

[...] not too late to honor the “Lassies.” Grab a donut this weekend. If we actually had Dunkin Donuts in Los Angeles, I’d urge you to combat the asinine boycott. So go to Yum Yum (where anything is possible) or [...]

By: jennie

jennie — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 21:13:14 +0000

I have that scarf. It’s from Urban Outfitters.

By: mediaconcepts

mediaconcepts — Sat, 31 May 2008 02:57:44 +0000

Here's the latest terrorist sympathizer to be outed. We must boycott her and her entire family. Oops, that's Meghan McCain, daughter of John McCain. This type of dressing used to be called "Radical Chic." Tom Wolfe wrote a book with that title in 1970 (reprinted from an earlier essay). Now it's "Terrorist Sheik."

By: lucindamichele

lucindamichele — Fri, 30 May 2008 20:57:13 +0000

Ugly American, you’re wavering dangerously close to Godwin’s Law.

Taking someone’s statement, upping it by a degree of 20, and then arguing that the original statement is invalid because it’s inflated form is unacceptable…is invalid.

By: AArtVark

AArtVark — Fri, 30 May 2008 20:29:47 +0000

Someone should open a shop called Political Doughnut. I envision a place where liberal, tolerant Angelenos debate the meaning of the absence of doughnut at a doughnut’s centre. Is it a hole or is it a void and what can that mean? Who decided that there should be no doughnut in the centre?

By: theuglyamerican

theuglyamerican — Fri, 30 May 2008 20:09:53 +0000

You consider painted swastikas a valid form of critiquing?

So I guess klansmen displaying nooses would be deemed a succinct dissertation.

Honestly…doesn’t anyone find this fashion trend to be even the slightest bit suspect?

By: hindinwood

hindinwood — Fri, 30 May 2008 18:59:55 +0000

While wearing the scarf may be a misguided fashion statement, I don’t see how (in general) critiquing the Israeli state is anti-semetic. That seems like really reductionist logic to me…

By: theuglyamerican

theuglyamerican — Fri, 30 May 2008 18:46:25 +0000

Suddenly, it appears that my comments are being ~~censored~~ screened.

Crush dissent much?

By: theuglyamerican

theuglyamerican — Fri, 30 May 2008 18:43:14 +0000

I'm not trying to p*ss on your Malkin-bashing party...I was merely trying to point out that kaffiyehs are not always as benign and trivial in meaning as you might think. For many Jews, it might as well be a swastika. Ever heard of Mohammad Amin al-Husayni and the 13th Waffen Mountain Division? Groups like Hamas were practically modeled after the Nazi party. I must admit that it does puzzle me how liberals are so accepting of this kind of hate speech at their protest rallies. Quite frankly, I would be saying "f*ck tolerance" and breaking out the baseball bats. You'd think the murder of six million men, women and children would've been enough for these people.

By: lucindamichele

lucindamichele — Fri, 30 May 2008 18:26:39 +0000

FWIW, it’s really become a trend–the scarf, that is–and most people who’re picking up on it don’t know at all that it is a symbol of the Palestinian struggle. If they know anything about it they have a sense that it connotes rebellion. But other than that, its meaning has been lost as it becomes fashionable–like DIY punk clothing (now mass-produced for Hot Topic) used to connote rebellion, poverty and a fuck-you to consumerism. Now it’s just another object of manufactured desire for us to purchase for 19.99 at Target.