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[Above photos posted at Atlas Shrugged]
Ugliness begets evil. The t-shirt, which is on my list of clothing to avoid, is making news in an ugly way.
Urban Outfitters, another one of those stores which sells:
...a sorry collection of goods. "Distressed" jeans, graffiti t-shirts, and plaid shirts..."has stretched ugliness to its end: evil.
I cannot find the "Auschwitz Chic" t-shirt at the Urban Outfitters on-line store, but there are enough news agencies reporting on it to validate the authenticity of the photos posted by Atlas Shrugged, who writes:
American clothing company Urban Outfitters is selling a holocaust T-shirt bearing the Jewish star that Jews were forced to wear by the Nazis in death camps. This Urban Outfitters T-shirt is labeled "Auschwitz chic" and retails for $100. The “patchwork Star of David on the left breast pocket goes back to 1930s and 40s Europe.” The “vintage yellow color” of the shirt is Nazi yellow -- obvious to students of Nazi Germany.Atlas Shrugged has been documenting the products at Urban Outfitters for a number of years:
This is just another in a long line from the antisemitic Urban Outfitters of Jew-hating clothing pieces using monstrous iconography. The latest Jew-hatred fashion follows on the heels of Arafat's war scarf (the keffiyeh) is this Auschwitz tee shirt. The store also generated anger in 2004 with a shirt bearing the words “Everybody Loves a Jewish Girl,” surrounded by dollar signs and shopping bags.This commercialization of evil is not new for Urban Outfitters.
I titled this post "Getting Ready" since I think this is part of an insidious, popular, shift towards evil. The anti-life, anti-West, anti-Christian coalition is getting ready for its deadly (final?) assault on life and civilization. I don't know how this will manifest itself in our modern era. We saw something of its viciousness during Hitler's time. Now, left-liberals of the West and Muslims are already giving us a glimpse of what we can expect.
In conjunction with this commercial enterprise (perhaps unconnected, but definitely related), American Thinker has posted an article titled "Obama's come-uppance from Elie Wiesel during self-serving visit to Holocaust Museum" on Obama's visit to the Holocaust Memorial Museum on April 23 in honor of the Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom Hashoah). Am I being too conspiratorial to wonder why Obama couldn't be at the Memorial on the day of the international event, the Holocaust Remembrance Day, which is on April 19th? Elie Wiesel seems to have thoughts similar to mine. I think the American Thinker article correctly interprets Obama's visit as an election year campaign to garner Jewish votes and sympathy. Even his "escort" Elie Wiesel, who also spoke at the event, said that Obama hasn't done enough to mitigate anti-Jewish forces and sentiments around the world. From the American Thinker article linked above:
During the last three years, President Obama did not visit the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. But today, he did; and promptly gave a self-serving campaign speech for Jewish votes...I suppose Urban Outfitters was "getting ready" for the Holocaust Remembrance Day that was duly, but perversely, remembered by Obama.
The president had with him as escort and introducer Elie Wiesel and lavishly praised the Nobel Laureate and Holocaust survivor for his unrelenting campaign to keep the memory of the Holocaust front and center.
But Wiesel did not reciprocate. Instead, determined to tell truth to power, he admonished Obama for not doing nearly enough to confront Assad's atrocities in Syria and Iranian President Ahmadinejad's development of nuclear weapons and threats to wipe Israel off the map...
Since the Holocaust Museum is a national undertaking, it is fitting for a U.S. president to pay an occasional visit and call its lessons to public attention. But by waiting until 2012, an election year, and in the substance of his speech, Obama turned his visit into a political event, just as the presidential-election campaigns move into high gear. It leaves a stain on the museum and the Holocaust to exploit it for political purposes
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[Image above from the Washington Post's photo gallery]
Wiesel's suffering, wrinkled face is in contrast to Obama's defiant and arrogant (with the "Mussolini" chin lift) expression. Yet, there is the vacant, frightened look in Obama's eyes on the picture on the left that I've often observed. When intent and action don't jive, something shows, somewhere.
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