Urban Outfitters sold ‘blood-spattered’ Kent State sweatshirt

[mystery-ak]

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Urban Outfitters sold ‘blood-spattered’ Kent State sweatshirt
By David K. LiSeptember 15, 2014 | 9:15am



Urban Outfitters produced a “vintage Kent State sweatshirt” — complete with simulated blood spatter — in a tasteless homage to the 1970 killings of four anti-war demonstrators on the Ohio campus.

The $129 light red shirt has a Kent State logo in the middle, with drops of blood splattered on the right shoulder, right armpit and stomach of the wearer.

BuzzFeed first reported about the shirt early Monday.

It’s since been taken off the Urban Outfitters website and listed as: “Kent State Vintage Sweatshirt Sold Out.”

Four students were killed and nine others injured on May 4, 1970, when the Army National Guard opened fire on anti-Vietnam War protesters.

A Kent State rep said the school was offended by the vile shirt.

“May 4, 1970, was a watershed moment for the country and especially the Kent State family. We lost four students that day while nine others were wounded and countless others were changed forever. We take great offense to anyone using our pain for their profit,” according to a university statement.

[massadvj]

Wow.  Talk about bad taste. 

[Charlespg]

fu***ing idiots at UO should have their dammed teeth knocked over this
but I have funny feeling they all voted for obama

[truth_seeker]

This company has a history of bad taste things like this. So don't believe their apology one bit.

[240B]

The most absurd thing about this is that Obama is the fascist. Obama is the totalitarian communist. Obama is the one conducting a war against America with the NSA, and HLS. Obama is the guy targeting certain Americans for persecution and destruction. Obama is one thousand times more likely to fire on Americans than any other government in the history of America.
 
In fact he wants to. He and Holder brag about wanting to kill (White Christian) Americans.
 
Like every thing else with the American Left, every thing they think is true is crazy, and every thing they believe is upsidedown and backwards, just like it always is.

[alicewonders]

I'm trying to wrap my head around the price - $129 for a sweatshirt that looks like something I would wear to clean out my garage.

[240B]

http://news.softpedia.com/images/news2/Bill-Maher-Will-Not-Apologize-for-Irwin-Costume-2.jpg
 
The American Left has a very stange 'sense of humor'.

[aligncare]

I like it. It makes a powerful statement. It says, I have too much money and I'm so clueless that I think I'm actually being cool.

[alicewonders]

I like it. It makes a powerful statement. It says, I have too much money and I'm so clueless that I think I'm actually being cool.

 

[SPQR]

Even though I was more sympathetic to the National Guardsman trying to quell a disturbance like that and that they did not have rubber bullets, I think that the sweatshirt is in really bad taste

[SPQR]

I'm trying to wrap my head around the price - $129 for a sweatshirt that looks like something I would wear to clean out my garage.

You have kids that are paying $200 for a pair of Nike sneakers.