This hate-filled tirade in support of censorship makes me laugh.
http://www.al.com/opinion/index.ssf/2013/03/baggy_pants_crude_t-shirts_all.html
Laugh, and applaud. They rightfully ridicule the crazy old mayor in Orange Beach, FL for making up new ordinances to protect the children from these vile T-shirts, and then point out the obvious no one else wants to touch, which is the fact that women running around in bikinis that barely cover anything. What's worse for children; a crude slogan that a child will probably not understand, or a 95% naked female, walking around in front of them, in a bikini?
While references the obvious craziness associated to censorship, they fist-pump and celebrate other forms of T-shirt censorship in other areas. What many of these articles fail to do is show you a sample image. Without seeing ourselves, we are at the controlled whim of the author, who is using words to advance their righteous perception of their world.
Let's be clear here. Obscene and adult-themed T-shirts are very different from hate-based and violence promoting T-shirts. If a T-shirt design is suggesting a sexual concept in nature, that's very different than the "Keep Calm and Knife Her" T-shirts we saw last week. T-shirt designs which promote violence against anyone is WRONG. They should be censored, shut down and destroyed.
Before we get all caught up in the heated debate of long range consequences of the youth wearing baggy pants and obscene T-shirts, lets recognize the basic concept here - censorship. Its a small clique of influential people who can and do suppress the will of the vast majority of other in support of their own personal agendas.
What are your thoughts?
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