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Topic: Anti-racist pro-Muslim T-shirts
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bigcitygal
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posted 29 July 2008 09:43 AM
Excellent, funny and political. What more could one ask for? A variety of colours and sizes? Done!  
The full text reads "My name causes national security alerts. What does yours do?"
hijabmanstore.com
[ 29 July 2008: Message edited by: bigcitygal ]
From: It's difficult to work in a group when you're omnipotent - Q | Registered: Apr 2005
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kropotkin1951
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posted 29 July 2008 01:46 PM
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Originally posted by oldgoat:
I wish there were T-shirts that good for lapsed Catholics with waspish names.
A little rewrite should get you there.Father, Frisk me I'm Catholic. Veils are for nuns.
Or a Canadian version for Moslems might say; Really, I'm Canadian not Syrian.
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Michelle
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posted 29 July 2008 03:20 PM
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Originally posted by al-Qa'bong:
I guess it's funny, but I've run into cop trouble because of my name. I didn't find that funny.
I don't think it's funny that people get stopped because of their names. I think it's funny that the t-shirt is so pointedly sarcastic about it. Just to clarify! Your post reminds me of an experience I used to have. Although I don't know what it's like to be racialized, I used to have an Iranian last name while I was married. (Yes, I was a bad feminist and took his name.) I sometimes wondered whether people were shocked when they met me after seeing my resume first. And I would always get people asking me where I "come from" or where my last name "was from". [ 29 July 2008: Message edited by: Michelle ]
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al-Qa'bong
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posted 31 July 2008 10:40 PM
I hear that quite often, with "What nationality is that?" being the most common question.When I tell them, I get puzzled looks, as I have fairly Nordic (someone once said I look Irish) features. Recently I was asked by a work colleague why my great-grandparents came here, since Canada isn't like the Middle East. I couldn't believe he would ask such a question. I told the guy they came here for the same reasons all the other homesteaders came to the prairies; cheap land and a new start. A fairly distant cousin claimed that my ancestors were freedom fighters and came here to flee the Turks. I don't know about that. I'm starting to think that I ought to get that T-shirt.
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Robespierre
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posted 01 August 2008 05:00 PM
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Originally posted by al-Qa'bong:
Café Press would sell its own mother into slavery if the profits were there.For example [ 01 August 2008: Message edited by: al-Qa'bong ]
Yep. That's how capitalism works.
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Webgear
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posted 01 August 2008 06:15 PM
StargazerThank you, it is a pleasure to hear from you. It is also nice to be back from self-imposed exile. I have spent the last 4 months re-thinking my personal ideology and decide that it was time to come back. M. Spector It is also nice to see you. The crusader theme was created before my disappearance in April. In the spring I was reading many books on the 1st, 2Nd and 3rd crusades and the Knightly orders of Europe. I have changed the theme. [ 01 August 2008: Message edited by: Webgear ]
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