Meaningless symbols?
Anyone remember this? Charles Johnson followed that scarf being sold online until it was pulled. No symbol here, right? EURO scarf? Pah-lease.
Well to anyone who doesn’t have a clue, the Kaffeyeh does mean something. It shows support for the palestinien cause. It does. Don’t say it doesn’t, we know it does.
Now Dunkin Donuts ran an ad campaign in the US with a woman wearing a kaffiyeh. They noticed the complaints and said it was chosen for style by the fashion designer for that ad.
You have Charles Johnson, who mentioned Dunkin Donuts, getting hate mail.
You have Michelle Malkin shining a light on the “meaningless symbol” (it’s not meaningless).
Actually, here are two of Michelle’s readers quoted on her site which mirror my thoughts exactly:
Update: Reader Erik e-mails, “Hey, I know, we could all walk around wearing T-Shirts with the Crusaders Cross on them and pretend we didn’t know what it means.”
…and…
Update: Reader Stu e-mails, “What you talk about here is not so different from the wearing of ‘Che Guevara’ T-shirts by people who have no clue (or choose to ignore, or even to embrace for the sake of “radical chic”) what a murdering thug Guevara was.” Very much so.
Well said. Wasn’t that well said?