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Originally posted by queenshonda
"There are major U.S. corporations who once had a hand in slave trade themselves".
Agreed. But people are not wearing these companies names all over their apparel and acting as though it is cool to be associated with the racist name. The real Von Dutch died in 1992.
There are plenty of kids wearing Von Dutch now who think Von Dutch was cool. Hopefully they do not think the fact he admired the nazis and hated minorities is cool.
Unfortunately, young people are very impressionable. I do not like the fact a man who was so blatently a nazi and a racist is being marketed to young kids as someone to admire .
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Honestly, I've never even heard of this line (I come from Oklahoma, so that probably explains it). But as impressionable as young people are, I'll give 99.999% odds that they either don't know or don't care who the real Von Dutch was. It's irrelevant. Abercrombie and Fitch could have been best buds with Stalin and Mao Tse Tung but that wouldn't deter young kids from buying their overpriced clothes -- that's just the way kids are, they all dress alike regardless of what the clothes mean.
Go to any t-shirt shop.. go to Hot Topix.. If you're looking to be offended, look no further than their t-shirt prints
It's not something worth crusading over. If there's a hell, the creator of that clothing line is in it. Since he's either dead or suffering eternal damnation, I find it difficult to hold a grudge