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Originally Posted by PM_Mama00
You're right. I thought maybe it was in the description from Todd Beamer.
This chick bothers me more. Free spirit my ass. I feel like that's making fun of a national tragedy. Why the HELL would anyone do that? (the part about her walking around barefoot on campus kinda grosses me out too)
All of this kinda reminds me of when a friend of mine decided it'd be ok to wear a tshirt with a huge marijuana leaf on the front (kinda like an Adidas logo shirt) and got pulled over by customs on his way either into or out of Canada. He got pulled over strictly because of the shirt.
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on a sort of a sidenote....
I remember hearing never to become 'a walking advertisement' because of perception...moreso if you have NO CLUE as to what you are wearing or whose face you have on your clothes.
Just the same as people I have seen wearing Che or Malcolm or Tupac or even a football jersey simply because 'it's cool' or 'racy' with no bearing as to what other people are going to do.
I believe that the guy in question had no intentions of causing a riot or pissing people off because he probably had a good idea of the purpose of what his shirt stood for when he bought it.
Now the MIT lady...quite a different tangent...she may be a free spirirt, but a shirt like that is provacative and again she is probably lucky to be in one peice...wearing that TO an airport post 9/11 is a recipe for disaster.
Something else to consider: When watching movies, what do would be terrorists in the movies do?
TRY HARD AS HELL TO BLEND IN.
PM...the overarching lesson in this is as I stated before, we cannot dare ASSume that just because someone looks different or more succinctly, looks similar to those who have done us harm are OUT to cause harm because sometimes the main ones out to do are those who look like us as this was pointed out earlier.
Moreso, some of those fears we have, we must get over and move on lest we let our paranoia get the best of us.
I can't tell you what to do about the elevator...but I can say that you walk a fine line when you profile people.
You know what, if you have never seen it before, rent Crash.
Seriously.
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