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Ridiculous Tee shirt. I actually saw this on the news.
Win?
Not in a million years.
Fail on censorship
nice job Loui
O.O
Oh my gosh…
HOW COULD THEY???
LOL depends on what side you are on
it happens to be a very arabic-populated school in the most arab city in the USA
Detroit?
you betcha. this makes me so proud to live in michigan..
not
No, Dearborn.
there arent any arabs in detroit dude… only black people and white people.
o yea there are a few white people in detroit huh…..
so what, what does being arab have to do w it !?
everything
I used to play these guys in golf!! They were terrible just like my school, which made it really fun.
Something tells me this school isn’t in New York
Dearborn, MI. Nice isn’t it.
yeah im an edsel ford alumni, and unfourtuneatley, i must admit this is not all that suprising to me having gone to school with those kids. what makes me angry about this is, they were not punished.
Why should they punished? Who cares?
I’d wear it.
….. wow, that guy was hi when he created this shirt.
You really think people should be punished for poor taste?
I think you should be punished for ‘unfourtuneatley.’ <_<
wow. as a new yorker, i find this completely nauseating.
I don’t even live on the east coast and my stomach sunk on this one.
new york sucks
Your name does your intelligence justice.
I’m from NC, and this is in VERY bad taste to me as well.
Same. I live on a Marine corps base in NC and this is BS i mean my dad and a lot of people i know fight for this country and it’s BS how those people make jokes about it. Get a life and die.
ugly shirt + over sensitive people over an ugly shirt = fail
btw, I loved the part “get a life, and die”…..
I really don’t think this was intentional. It would only appear this way for the one sweatshirt that has the number 11 on it. for the other 99 numbers you wouldn’t even think twice about it.
The sweatshirt is for the class of 2011. All of them will have an 11 on them.
It’s obvious, and tacky. The history and civics teachers at the school should be ashamed they didn’t teach these kids any more about the events and consequences of 9/11 than that.
News is commonly viewed in American schools, if anyone doesn’t know much about the 9/11 attack besides the twin towers, then they haven’t been paying much attention.
Of course it was intentional. The numbers have windows on them, to signify buildings.
some of you guys are so stupid, you think that all arabs are like this??? arabs and alkita are completley different, its just a stupid cowinsidence that they are an arab group and they are a discrace to arabs everywher.(me being an arab and an edsel ford student)
and this was not intentional at all! they did not mean it like the way that all the racist judgmental idots think it did.
you totally spelled al-quaeda wrong . . .
i dont even know if i spelle dit right . . but i was close at least 
“cowinsidence”???
Whaaaaaatt
What? So you go to this school and you type like that? You’re not doing a good job of defending yourself.
REALLY?! Dumb-asses like you are the reason shit like 9-11 happens. ITWOULDNT WORK with 99 or 88 because the twin towers dont look like 9s and 8s . . . theyre STRAIGHT, so it looks like them when you use 11 . . . you F*CK. Dont act like you actually believe they didn tintend to raise some brows and cause controversy doing this, they knew exactly what they were doing. THey knew theyd get away with it cause people like you and thos ein charge have all turned into a bunch of scared PUSSIES.
u mad?
Agreed!
casprd –
You are a moron. You are to cease consuming oxygen at once.
That is all.
Not cool at all. This is sick and twisted. where was the Principal on when they came for approval for this?
They had the shirts done at a flea market for $25 each while on winter break.
you really think a principle would approve this?
the kids did not get this approved, when they showed up at school they were sent to the office.
I’m an American and it bothers me…
Censorship fail.
ex-ACTLy
This one goes to…
Took me a while but i finally got it..twin towers and the bird thingy is hitting it lol
how is it funny to you? that was a very sad day.
eeehm dude ? its now what? 9 years since ? . . . . get over it…. its a really nice joke
its almost as good as the danish mohammed-drawings xD!! love it !1
get over it? have you lost a loved one in a terrorist attack? has your city been ravaged and disgraced by strangers?
it’s not a joke. it’s not funny. it’s offensive.
“has your city been ravaged and disgraced by strangers?”
Tell that to people in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
So let’s put a giant mushroom cloud on a school jacket, that’ll make it all better…Dumjob is a good name for you. And read your history books, the Japanese were warned.
We gave them fair warning… so its okay to murder them wheras the people working in the twin towers weren’t warned… so its not ok? That’s retarded.
I love mushroom clouds, btw. i’d wear a shirt. Why not? Like, I don’t -get- why people are so angry over a drawing.. an iconic image… Like I can understand people being upset over a Nazi symbol or a burning cross–an image that has actually been adopted by a group of evil people to represent them… But in this particular case, I don’t even understand what’s derogatory. Its evil to even SHOW two towers with a projectile headed toward them? They’re not on fire, they’re just sitting there. The people who are upset about this are the same people who have had the twin towers removed from video covers and other types of media… as if its better to pretend they never existed than to spend any amount of time being “reminded” that such a terrible thing happened. I’m not trying to trivialize the actual event or the feelings of those involved, I simply do not understand -this level- of outrage over something so benign.
This was done to petition the anti-islamic news coverage of the almost terrorist attack on the plane headed to detroit.
You have absolutely no idea what you’re saying. You speak with no knowledge on the situation. Dont make such huge assumptions..umm..libel?.
I am from the community where this happened and i can say this is a patriotic sweatshirt..just have a white person, or at least non-arabamerican, wear it.
What do I, an AraB American, say to the 9/11 attacks that hurt us as a nation?: YOU CANT BRING US DOWN!
if it was a white person id be pissed too, just because youre arab-american sayin it doesnt make it better. It was distasteful and ignorant, you have to think about the s*it you say . . .even if you dont have bad intentions.
Wow. You are really grasping at a justification for your ignorance aren’t you?
Why don’t I just go ahead and point out the glaringly obvious: We were AT WAR with Japan because JAPAN attacked us. Call me silly, but I tend to think that adds some legitimacy to the act.
And US has been supporting the mass-murder state of Israel for decades. Just because “officially” US isn’t at war against the Palestinian state, that doesn’t mean that the US is not helping killing people.
And no, even if a country is at war, nothing justify the murder of civilians, like Hiroshima and 9/11. Both were terrible acts, both can be called war crimes, the only difference is that the nuclear attacks killed much more people.
Oh, one last thing: I don’t know what kind of history book americans prepare to themselves, but by the time of the bombings, the japanese navy was already defeated, and the negotiations of surrendering were in course. So it’s not like the US had the military need of attacking civilians: they did it arguably to show the world (and specially the USSR) their strengh. Do you think that justify?
YES SIR! . . . some intelligence in this post . . . hell yeah
The Japanese had over a million soldiers left and would have fought till the end. The bombings probably saved more japanese and american solider lives. But then again these people were all women and children and the effects of the radiation persist today. I will chose to not give an opinion on this really… = /
Must….avoid…9/11….argumenTHE BUSH ADMINISTRATION WAS WARNED TOO BUT THEY CHOSE TO DEVOTE ALL THEIR ON PUSHING TAX CUTS THROUGH CONGRESS INSTEAD God I hate myself
The truth hates you, too.
<3 ^^ that guy up there…
Perhaps you should read an non-american history book before writing those biased comments.
The nuclear attacks were made against civilians, and are recognized worldwide as the greatest single-event war crime ever. Much worse than 9/11. Actually, the only practical difference between these events are their magnitude: while the Japanese had 200.000+ civilians killed, the americans had “only” about 3.000.
But I’d like to see if the “democratic” US would censor a giant mushroom cloud on a school jacket. I doubt very much.
HA HA . .. that was AFTER they bombed us in PEARL HARBOR. AND . . ANDDD . . . they F*cking SURRENDERED DIDNT THEY!!!??? We need to do taht in the Middle east.
No, retarded. Pearl Harbor attacks were 5 YEARS before. A whole war happened after it, and the US convincingly defeated the Japanese. When the negotiations of surrendering were in course, the US decided to show their strength to the world and killed hundreds of thousands of civilians. It wasn’t a strategic attack during war, it was simply a war crime against civilians. Like 9/11, but many times bigger.
No. You’re an anti-American idiot.
Look up the Potsdam ultimatum. The Japanese were nowhere close to surrendering, despite the outcries from it’s citizens, despite it being spelled out in black and white for them. It was signed by the President of the US, the British Prime Minister, and the President of China.
Oh, and I didn’t get that from an American history book. I got it from a Japanese source.
Your argument is really beside the point. The Japanese would find it distasteful if their teens started wearing t-shirts that made light of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, just as many Americans find this shirt distasteful.
No one tried to claim that 9-11 was or wasn’t worse than other attacks in the world, just that it is wrong to make light of it. Just as it would be wrong to make light of Hiroshima or Nagasaki.
geez… i lost my father in the afghanistan-war, and i still find shirts with anti-war-prints funny… you americans have no sense of humour… its annoying…
A couple of self-righteous fools on the Internet does not represent the entire population of a country, thanks very much.
Good job, Capt. Self-Righteous.
Thousand of people die every day due to AIDS, malaria and other diseases. 9/11 is nothing compared to it, and I don’t see you sad about it.
Yes but 9/11 happened to Americans and these things just shouldn’t happen to Americans! Its the right of every American to be ignorant about what’s happening in the rest of the world yet still think they are better than everyone else.
Your comment doesn’t even make sense. If someone made a t-shirt mocking people who died of AIDS then that would be just as bad. No one is comparing how tragic one is versus the other.
In soviet russia, phone answers you!
In Soviet Russia, joke gets you.
In soviet Russia, the buildings crash into YOU!
haahhahahaha!
now taht one is true. i like russia
In Soviet Russia, people speak Russian?
*crickets*
In Soviet Russia, Russian speaks you!
And it doesn’t help that the numbers are eleven
He’ll go to jail.
He’ll go to fail
He’ll get the mail.
He’ll get nail’d!
YAY! I read these thing almost every day, and I was finally a part of “whatever the hell you call it”. A fail Round I guess.
C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER!!!!
TENSO!
ElvenO?
cheeri-Os~!
Daddy-o?
balls
Ballin?
BALLERINAS.
He’ll salt a snail.
Maybe I’m getting old — but I don’t recall the twin towers looking like numerals.
Help me — I got caught up in the looooooooooong thread.
Must … pull … myself … away!
ACK!!!! I’m caught in the vortex, too!
*squeezes DW and ns to keep them out the vortex*
*Gets sucked in the vortex*
NOOOOoooo….
I almost forgot to congratulate you on the Powered By.
Different twin towers. In NYC, it was the WTC.
In Dearborn, MI it is the WTF?
shoot yourself
What’s with the bad blur job? It’s either “Love” or “Loui”, I can’t quite decide… but either way… And why blur it in the first place?
It’s Lodi as in Lodi, CA.
see here: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_TWIN_TOWERS_SHIRTS?SITE=CALOD&SECTION=US&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2010-01-05-23-14-04
hmmm need to read the article first huh!
It’s “LOUI”, there’s an uncensored version here:
http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/22129881/detail.html
I suppose that must be the name of the student it belonged to, which kind of explains the censorship… but not why anyone would think that was good enough to hide it. If you’re going to do it at all, do it right.
It is blurred because it is probably the name of a student. These were made by members of the class of 2011 at Edsel Ford High… here: http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/22129881/detail.html
This is a ‘local’ (sort of) story for me, and I understand that the students who had these didn’t realize they were offending, cooperated, and gave up the t-shirts without incident.
this is a hoodie, not a t-shirt.
like it matters.
this is also a sort of local story to me. You can’t tell me thoes kids didn’t understand what they were doing. They knew enough to put windows and a projectile eagle on it. There were 15 students, all arab-american, the princapal who didnt even repremand them, also arab-american. Theres more here. No one is that ignorant.
I am so disgusted to say I went to this school… The worst part is it was Arab-American students wearing it… smh
Because we all know Arab’s support terrorism.
There is nothing wrong with this, we are Americans and we not afraid and I think this shirt is about that: ‘they’ can’t bring us down. So a win for Edsel Ford High.
You’d be afraid if a bunch of men in pretty non-American military fatigues came up to your doorstep and opened fire
At least, er, I would be. Heh? Heh.
lolwat
._.;
I should pull out my high school yearbook. Class song was supposed to be Van Halen-”Dreams” but the stupid cheerleader in charge wrote down Van Halen-”The Dream is Over”…..god I’m old…..
Hey, I maybe Indian (yes, I am really Indian
), but don’t look at me! I didn’t do anything . . .
I’ll take 4.
History Phail
the censor is a fail.. obviously it spells out LOUI
What’s even more of a coincidence is that the motto is “can’t bring us down” when the buildings literally got brung down.
I think thats the point?
“Got brung down”?
Grammar WIN!
This was just on the local news – it’s in Dearborn, MI. If anyone cares, the kids who made them were compliant with the school in not wearing them…but they’re idiots for making them in the first place.
BS, it’s in “Lodi”, CA. See link above!
no its dearborn michigan… I graduated from this school last year
its freakin loui! i saw the shirts with my own eyes!
this is terrible. whoever thought of this needs a swift kick in the pants.
By X-23 from X-Men.
Julia as a new yorker this offends you? well as a citizen of the world im more concerned that your gov’t blamed a dood in a cave for what they clearly did!
Go cut your neck with a steak knife and take a dirt nap.
Oh bye, I love steak and naps!
Does it really bother some of you. I mean come on…of all places people should laugh at the humor… I believe there are more things to be upset about then someone making light of a bad situation…win for courage
but..
but of ALL bad situations – 9/11?
REALLY?!?!?! D:
Yes, for it’s less significant then people are making it.
But what point is there to bring up bad memories by putting the allusion on the tshirt? There are so many more appropriate options that the students could have chosen. You can say “it’s less significant th[a]n people are making it”, but what about the people related to those who die? It’s certainly significant to them. Although it is not one of the worst disasters in our history, it is still in bad taste to unnecessarily put such rude material on a piece of attire that will be viewed by a vast amount of people (since it’s at a school.) I’m saying this as someone who is also in high school: Those students should have none better. There is absolutely no good reason to make such an offensive article.
*known better
666 may be the number of the beast. 420 is clearly the number of the idiot.
you laugh about hitler, we laugh about 9/11 … fair deal
ehm…i’m german (hitler wasn’t
) and i totally laugh about hitler at least once a month, for example calling someone hitler for doing something bad or so…i.e. you could say “hitler!” to a troll
but 9/11 jokes are hard to form…cant think of one…but since it would be a joke, i’d probably laugh about it ^^
9/11 joke
Wieviele Einwohner hat New York? 8 Millionen und ein paar Zerquetschte.
sorry, i don’t think this one works in english, but i can translate – although you won’t get the joke:
how many inhabitants does NY have? 8 Millions and some crushed ones.
in germany, we say “and some crushed ones” for “a little bit more than”.
Dude, that’s not even remotely funny. It’s ignorant and makes you look like a douche. Im not even remotely patriotic or sensitive about things like that, but come on…that’s just evil.
… Only because it hits home. we’re approaching 9 years out from the incident and we’re probably still recovering from it. I’d even go so far as to say that a lot of the best people we had, who would have been able to anticipate our current economic situation got lost there. We’ll recover, but the people who are handling the fallout know that people will be people, and the kind of people for whom high school prom was the most meaningful event in their lives, they aren’t. We also need to realize that the class of 2011 were about 6 to 8 years old when it happened. Expect a more irreverent view the farther out it gets.
Dave,
Yeah I totally agree…but I was commenting on what “german” said (above my post). His little joke about NY inhabitants being crushed…I thought that was tasteless and innappropriate.
I didn’t.
Long live jokes about minorities!
You have it ass-backwards, friend. We laugh AT Hitler for being one of the biggest pieces of shit to walk the earth, so you should be laughing AT Bin Laden, the scumbag who took responsibility, not the victims. Your analogy like I said, is ass-backwards. Makes no sense.
well, yea…i laugh at bin laden!
I would say that just because I can have a sense of humor about a situation you cannot does not make me an idiot. If anything in this case it would make me heartless. But anyway I still stand by my original point laughter helps. And I will admit it might be harder for someone who has lost someone or someone who was in the panic.
Yes, from a bunch of losers from a high school named after the guy who name is pinned forever to the worst car line ever…hope their year crashes like an Edsel.
Tools!
Worst car line ever? They go to Yugo High School?
While I get the school pride involved, a little tactless. People were in the towers that unfortunately did come down and that shouldn’t be made light of.
at a glance, i thought they were referring to the fact that 11 can’t be divided into a smaller number.
oh god. |:
Nerdtastic win!
A prime example of the importance of education.
Haha… Double nerdtastic win!
DRINKS ALL AROUND.
Except if divided by itself ofcourse.
Or divided by a plane.
What do you get when you divide 11 by 737?
Shit load of rubble
YAAAY!
Dearborn, MI has one of the highest muslim populations in America. This design is no coincidence.
What r u trying to say PJMN?
That this design is no coincidence. I was born in Detroit, PJMN is absolutely right. At best, it was stupid teenagers out for attention, not caring what kind of attention. But FAR more likely is, it was intentionally a direct reference to the 9/11 terrorist attack and an insult to mainstream America. That attitude is VERY common in Dearborn.
Yeah, sorry. Have you been to Dearborn? Are you Muslim? I’m thinking not. Try again.
Man i think this is no fail, this is a fucĸing big win
If you’re an immature idiot who thinks causing other people pain makes you look cool and edgy, because hey the universe revolves around you and you alone.
Real human beings with compassion would find this a fail.
coque sukker!!!
See jokes: “Celebrities, diseases, and Popular crimes”. We sure don’t make fun of those, no sir.
SOMEone’s getting fired…..
It’s taken humanity until recent years to be able make Hitler and Holocaust jokes, and even then it’s not always okay. That happened in the early 1900s, so I think it might be a few more years until we can laugh at 9/11.
Too soon. Still, way too soon.
your mother is too soon
Troll Fail.
No kidding.
Scope fail!
9/11 death toll: 2,752
Holocaust death toll:
# 5.1–6.0 million Jews, including 3.0–3.5 million Polish Jews
# 2.5–3.5 million Gentile Poles
# 200,000–800,000 Roma & Sinti
# 200,000–300,000 people with disabilities
# 10,000–25,000 gay men
# 2,000 Jehovah’s Witnesses
# 3.5–6 million other Slavic civilians
# 2.5–4 million Soviet POWs
# 1–1.5 million political dissidents
Annual world poverty death toll: 18 million.
That’s great and all, but this shirt isn’t mocking any of those other unfortunate deaths, so those stats have nothing to do with this. 9-11 is the biggest joke target because certain people are spoonfed through their media that they’re supposed to hate 300 million people that live in the most diverse country in the world just “because”. Sure, we make cracks about the Canadian’s overuse of “Eh?”, the Brit’s lack of dental hygiene, and the French’s lack of… well, any hygiene. We don’t celebrate their national tragedies like a bunch of sheep though.
The stats were in reply to people saying its okay to make jokes about holocaust because it was 60 years ago, but not about 9/11 cos it was only 9 years ago. They are in a completely different ballpark.
I find it extremely offensive that you suggest that i would celebrate death though. Its just that Americans will happily cause mass deaths in other countries with a clear conscience, but when there is a few deaths in their own then they expect the whole world to stop to pay them tribute.
I will stop and pay every death a tribute equally.
Would you like some more stats, such as the death toll from the Iraqi war (which, lets face it, was a grab for oil). Or how about the death toll of Hiroshima & Nagasaki bombings.
Perhaps if Americans felt a little more compassion for the rest of the world, then the rest of the world might feel a little more compassion for you.
Dude, the fact is that time shouldn’t matter to the event. If you’re going to refer to 9/11 jokes as “Too soon” then you shouldn’t have a different attitude towards other sadistic events.
If Americans had felt a little less compassion for the rest of the world, Hitler could have won WWII.
America didn’t feel compassion for the rest of the world. Which is why they refused to get involved up until the last minute and while they were selling arms to BOTH sides of the conflict. The only reason they got involved was because of Pearl Harbour.
EXACTLY! thanks! finally someone touches on that point. the design is targeting that specifically. if the design had a reference to a terrible disease, or genocide, or anything else, people would be just as outraged.
we’re not saying 9/11 makes this the worst thing ever, it’s the insensitivity of those who made it (and those who think it’s funny/OK) that outrages us.
Haha! Sweet! I want one!
not really my cup of tea to be honest…
Tea IS better with taste.
what?
lololol.
Loui won’t be amused
This is a win for me
Stay away from our border, Paco!
LOL!!!
Sure people can laugh about hitler, that was nearly 60 years ago but 9/11 is still to recent to have jokes made about it. There are still families torn apart by the deaths on 9/11.
So what ? Every tragic event tears families apart. You’re saying, that we can laugh at people who died 5 years ago, but laughing at someone who died one year ago is terribly wrong. What’s the difference, ffs ?
It’s only Yanks complaining because they were affected themselves. They don’t care at all when non-Yanks are involved.
Not true. It’s not OK to make holocaust jokes or Hiroshima jokes either, but this shirt does not reference those tragedies so the point is moot
Why the f* is this a fail ? It’s a win. Just because it resebles the oh so sensitive 9/11 it doesn’t make it a fail. Who gives a shit about it.
Actually since the shirt was done by a bunch of muslim scumbags making fun of the fact that their people successfully carried out the 9/11 plot, then yeah, it’s a fail. Look at the sweatshirt again, the numbers have windows in them, like buildings, it was in intentional slap in the face. From the article linked above: “About 15 Arab-American students at Edsel Ford High School are in trouble over a class sweatshirt they had made over the holiday break.” This wasn’t a sweatshirt created by the school, or even the entire class of 2011. These sweatshirts were made by 15 muslim scumbags laughing at us on our own soil over something that their people did.
If you don’t like mushrooms, maybe you should relocate from the rock under which you’ve been living. Or, y’know, stay there. I much prefer walking around in a world not populated by ignorant asses. Which is to say that it sucks to be walking around in this world.
I suppose one could argue that it was, in fact, your people who demolished your buildings with their disappearing jumbo jets (that’s referring to the Pentagon, just to clarify). Furthermore, your people are laughing at the American public, on their soil, for getting you all to believe that someone a world away orchestrated a massive attack without any warning whatsoever. There’s a reason American intelligence agencies are well known throughout the world; mostly because they tend to figure shit out. Or they used to. They missed this one. This massive one. The one that took a lot of planning. And magical planes. And indestructible passports. And all that other evidence of who the attackers were that made it down from the towers whole enough to be useful.
But hey! You guys got another meaningless war out of it. It’s ok. You guys got the guy who had absolutely nothing to do with the initial reason for the war. Congratulations on steamrolling countries who didn’t ask for your help. Also, thank you for clarifying the mix up about whether or not countries are actually supposed to follow the UN’s rules. It was a pretty well hidden fact that we can just ignore them.
In conclusion, get your head out of your ass.
In another conclusion, I do find this shirt to be rather tasteless. Regardless of who planned and carried out the attacks, a lot of people died, and in ways that many of people can only imagine in their nightmares. And a lot more people have died since, and as a result of, 9/11.
That is not to say that I don’t enjoy a good bad joke in reference to pretty much any horrible event ever.
I won’t be sad if you choose to forget everything you just read. Or if you forget it because it’s not worth remembering.
Cheers.
A mostly agree with some of what you have said. However I think you may have confused Muslims with mushrooms, they are infact 2 different things. One is a small fungus that grows from the ground, the other is your average religious group. However there have been known to be a few more radical Muslims that briefly turn into a mushroom shaped cloud.
Shit. I knew I should have proofread.
Yea they are you dipshit, that is why we should kill them all and spare none so we don’t recreate it
So you’re saying we should start prosecuting all the Muslims and just start another sort of Holocaust?
And after killing off all the Muslims, we should kill off all the Jews.
Also dont forget to kill off the Jehovah’s Witnesses, they wake me up knocking on my door.
Also lets kill off all the Christians, as they are just too stupid to be allowed to live.
Yay for Genocide!
hell yes, we should kill them all!! especially Beaners, blacks are ok
Well if we start killing. I guess you shall be our first victim. We never said what group we were going to kill.
Uh… it’s a fail. Only an idiot would think otherwise.
The real FAIL is the attempt at blurring the name. Hi LOUI, better luck next time.
Genius. Now you have this classified information what are you going to do with it?
It is OK to joke about this now right?
… or is it still too soon?
now if only I had a joke…
People who complain about this also think that it’s funny to write on a humvee-MG “Iraqi photos: look here, smile and wait for the flash”.
Only in america..
Terrorist are a critical part of our society…we need them to tell people another way they could die besides old age.
‘I’m afraid so’, says the millitants.
This is in Dearborn MI. These shirts were purchased at a local “shopping center” by about 15 Arab students. http://www.clickondetroit.com/education/22141652/detail.html There’s the link to the news website.
Disgusting human beings, these kids.
Birds often crash into buildings, especially glass buildings. Thats why people often paint silhouettes of birds on windows to warn them. Ive never heard about a bord bringing a house down, though.
Holy insensitivity, Batman!
Yeah, i’m from this area. It made the news here around Detroit. One thing I didn’t see in the comments above is what makes this look particularly bad. The high-school in question is primarily arab-american. Dearborn has the highest concentration of arab americans in the country, and most (not all!) are rather unfriendly to non-arabs around here. The students say it was a coincidence and not meant to look like the towers. I call giant effing bullshit on that. I’ve overheard people around here saying the attacks were justified, that we more or less ” got what was coming to us”
I would’ve like to see a “School Beat-down” fail along with the shirt.
Unforgivably disgusting. Those kids should be keel hauled and corn holed.
People are killed by terrorists all over the world, but yet I don’t see the outcry of condolences over anything but 9/11. Why is that?
Because you don’t read the news enough
THAT SWEATER IS AWESOME!!!!!!!!! 911, was a government operation, they deserve this ridicule!!
That shirt is also available in silver, so it can match your tin-foil hat.
i don’t even have words for this.
o wow… i just realized what the 11 was after like 4 mins lol, i feel “special”
Fail.
Knock Knock…
Who’s there?…
Trojan man’s brain.
Although if you think about it, going to Edsel Ford High School is already pretty much a FAIL…
All those Americans that say that this joke is too soon… give it a break… Germany and Austria can already joke about the Holocaust.
Which one is worse?
But the Germans were the ones RESPONSIBLE for the Holocaust, so of course they’ll joke about it, as pathetic as that may be. I doubt Jerusalem’s whooping it up though.
It has been like what 4 or 5 years? maybe more, he makes a good point… give it a break
my friend just told me it was like 9 years ago… thats a bad on my part, i don’t remember crap that long ago
This is total win.
Why? Because it is what the extremists want you to do. To live in fear, to attack their home lands and to drive the simple people there even further into the hands of the already really mighty warlords financing more terror.
So, keep on shivering, America.
Regards,
a guy, who does not give a f*ck. (:
It’s been almost ten years and they’ve failed to do any more damage like they promised though. Not a damn thing. Teflon.
@PRO – Couldn’t agree more!!!
freedom of speech, stop trying to take it away. they were only exercising their 1st amendment rights and were contributing to the marketplace of ideas. This serves as an example of the crazy ideas you see in the marketplace of ideas. This serves as example of what ideas to avoid.
If its about freedom of speec how come if i were to yell something like “white power!” i’d get called racist. They can say w/e they want and we as americans just shy away with our tails between our leg. we dont want to offend anyone else but they can do w/e they want to us.
also the people on here comparing stuff to hitler, you’ve all invoked Godwin’s Law : A term that originated on Usenet, Godwin’s Law states that as an online argument grows longer and more heated, it becomes increasingly likely that somebody will bring up Adolf Hitler or the Nazis. When such an event occurs, the person guilty of invoking Godwin’s Law has effectively forfieted the argument.
Initially I also thought that Americans are overreacting. However in Poland there are no jokes about Warsaw Uprising (a small episode of WWII, and one of two uprisings in Warsaw of that time).
The daily casualties count was equal to that of WTC, and it lasted for *three months*.
wear it in a plane or
I went to Edsel and live in the area. It didn’t help that these shirts were worn exclusively by male arab teens…
And I agree with the censorship fail, that totally says LOUI… XD
Also, what do you expect from a school named after the biggest failure in American history? So full of FAIL.
I went there for a year…. Generation fail
Not a Fail: “Failure refers to the state or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective.”
Their objective was to portray a plane hitting the WTC. Success.
this is awesome!
No, it isn’t.
For somthing so distasteful, that sweater sure tastes good. mmmm.
I like it, I want one!
Is it possible that the shirts weren’t supposed to be a joke? They brought down the towers, but they didn’t bring down America? I don’t know…
Regardless, I personally wasn’t offended and I think it’s kind of wrong that people can joke about stuff like concentration camps and slave jokes but not jokes about 9/11. But I can see why some people would be offended.
you have a point there
I understand why everyone is so sensitive…but why so serious? This is FACKING FAIL BLOG! Anything goes!!!
*farts*
I think its a little silly, like most bad puns, but not very fail-worthy.
Hah, funny, but in bad taste.
Way to respect the those who died on 9-11, douches!
Why is this a fail?
I actually go to Edsel Ford Highschool and I know those who wore the shirt.
They were just a few immature under 2.0 students who don’t get laid and stuff.
Besides, what is wrong with 15-year olds making crude jokes :p
We do it all the time on the internet.
HITLER!
omg its in Detroit, even better the guys who designed the shirt are arab-americans so is half the school. i seriously can not quit laughing at the irony
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,582116,00.html?mep
It doesn’t surprise me this happened in Dearborn, MI.
I know kids that go here, and apparently the kids who did this (after they got caught) thought it was a big joke and were laughing about it. They said they hadn’t made them in distaste, but even a complete idiot would see some resemblance. Also, the administration had nothing to do with this. They made the hoodies at Gibraltar trade center over Christmas break.
Which by the way, to the kids who did this: don’t get mad and call people racist, when you know there’s a huge stereotype against Muslims, especially after 9/11. The way to fight that stereotype would NOT be doing something like this.
I doubt it was a coincidence that there are 20 windows on each, to mark (commemorate?) the 20 hijackers.
There were only 19 hijackers.
This is not fail, this is paranoia.
Thank you!!!
omg what you little dumb loser that is so rude !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I don’t get it…
WIN!
Buh Bye first amendment.
Every kludge has a lifetime
First Amendment does not equal “Be a Jackass.” Read it again.
WeirdFish is right. there is an extent.for example, you would be
arrested if you shouted “FIRE!!” in a crowed theater
ohoh all stay clam… ur not bettern all those fanatics with ur blaming comments! its a joke.. black and perhaps funny… but the point is they exactly reached what the wanted! eh?! think about it
You guys honestly are blowing this way out of proportion! Its a joke, ya its a bad joke. But at the end of the day its a joke. How many of you non- arabs have cracked jokes on arabs?
Well i always knew Australia was a lil behind the times but i didnt realise we were a year behind. Who organises jumpers the year before the jumper has the be worn…?
My high school does…
yep, i go to edsel as we speak.
fails about controversy are like a calling card for trolls
So because of what some people THINK it meant, this is horrible and evil.
So because the kids wearing them we not white, they must have been out to piss everyone off.
Connotation, Denotation.
September 11 was a tragedy, but lets get some perspective.
More people die in drunk driving accidents EVERY YEAR.
Why have we not banned all alcohol?
More people have died fighting the war on terror, and we get fewer freedoms and have to suspect everyone who is non-white of evil intent.
You have a 1 in 10 million plus chance of dying on an airplane from a terrorist attack. You have a 1 in 500,000 chance of being struck by lighting, why do we not have greater precautions in place for the more likely event?
Terrorism is a horrible thing, but we have let them win. We are afraid every day. We treat them like they are this giant shadow organization that can somehow completely destroy the United States. They want us scared, worried, fearful. They seem to have won, and every bit of freedom you hand over in the name of being secure gives them another win.
If you lost someone in the terrorist attack, my sympathies.
But where are you when a solider dies protecting your freedom?
Does each fallen solider get a giant memorial?
Should we tread on eggshells for fear of offending their survivors?
Should we compensate their families as much?
Should we worry and fret that something taken in an unintended context will reopen their emotional wounds and triple think everything?
Some kids, KIDS under the age of 18, made some hoodies.
They had an ADULT make them.
No one said anything until someone at the school got offended by what they THOUGHT it meant.
You all pillage the kids for being ignorant, because if you came out and said they were stupid middle-eastern kids you’d been seen as the racist idiots you are.
If the kids were white, it would have been a non-story. It would have been called a misunderstanding.
Not everyone with brown skin is a Muslim.
Not every Muslim is an extremist.
Not every extremist is a terrorist.
If that were true they would be rounding up PETA and Operation Rescue people for the stupidity they do in the name of their cause.
But most of them are white, so they can’t be terrorists.
You make me sad.
Timothy McVeigh was a terrorist, and he was white as a snowflake. And PETA is an attention whore.
Where am I when a soldier dies? Writing to his family on his memorial page.
I do not believe this was taken in an unintended context. I believe it was taken EXACTLY as it was meant. And no, it is not all Muslims who are terrorists, not by a long shot. This was an act of young ignorant kids with racist attitudes toward white people. Yes, white people can be victims of racism *gasp*.
BULL CRAP if this had been white kids it would have been a non story. Tell that to Don Imus, whose entire CAREER is over because of one stupid immature racist joke.
Final point: Telling someone there are greater problems in this world than what they are going through, does not lessen their problems in the least. The fact that more people died elsewhere does not change the depth of the hurt and sorrow we suffered on 9/11. It’s not a contest to see who’s been hurt the most.
I actually graduated from this school and have seen first hand what this group of kids were like.
To start off, where were you going with the drunk driving by year deaths and war on terror? They’re both horrible things that should be taken care of that cause thousands of deaths a year, but you’re comparing a yearly death count to a one-time terrorist attack. Your solution to solving the drunk driving problem is to ban alcohol. I’m surprised you didn’t have a reaction after 9-11 to ban planes.
Let’s point out the obvious, it was a shirt clearly intended to look like the Twin Towers. The shirts were worn by people hailing from the countries that attacked the twin towers that were going to be graduating 10 years from 9-11. These are the same people that wore propaganda shirts during the Israel Palestine conflict supporting the people of Palestine and wearing shirts saying things implying death to Israel.
The fact of the matter is that the shirts were made entirely by Arabic people. Is that to say that shirts made by Arabic people are bad? Absolutely not. When Arabic people, however, make a shirt that implies an attack on the twin towers, there is only one context that the shirt should, and could, be taken in.
The bottom line is that these people did something completely intolerable and should not receive any sympathy from anybody. They realized that their people, not necessarily them themselves, followed through with a terrorist attack and decided that it would be funny to rub it in the faces of non-Arab Americans. You seem to believe that these people did nothing wrong and that it should be tolerated because you think that white people can get away with anything.
As for claiming that America doesn’t consider any white people terrorists, what about Ted Kaczynski? He was a white, pure-American terrorist who lived in a shack. What about the North Hollywood shooters? They were white and are also well recognized as terrorists.
I’m not claiming that people don’t stereotype based on skin color, but from your claim, the American government is run entirely by white people who would never consider another white person to be a terrorist. You’ve essentially taken what you said was wrong with the situation and reversed it. But the truth is that American government, from small to large, city to national, are run by a wide array of people from many different backgrounds.
In short, this group of kids did something completely intolerable that you seem to believe a group of white kids in the same situation could have gotten away with when it would also not be tolerated. What you’re claiming is wrong with America is exactly what you’re doing. You’re stereotyping one group of people because you believe that they all stereotype another group of people and don’t think their own people could do anything wrong. How very wrong you are.
You can’t make friends with someone who’s trying to kill you
And you can’t hug your friends with nuclear arms!
Pun WIN!
Good God people, grow up. Some of you are laughing at this. I guess you’ve sunk to new lows on the internet…….that’s not entirely humanly possible. Congratulations.
Though this shirt is in bad taste, I dont think its intent is really that malace. It’s a bad joke that is funny to some kids. Meh…
too soon.
I want to buy one of those!!!!!
Sure, like you’ll actually graduate someday.
You know whats worse than a terrorist. A wannabe terrorist. and thats what these guys are
WIN
What would be the reaction, in 1950,
if a “Pearl High School” had some poster, cartoon, or t-shirt refering to December 7, 1941, and boasting of strength and survival.
I don’t think there would be a problem, and I don’t see one here.
We were attacked, we responded, and continue to fight this enemy.
The 3rd graders that witnessed the Attack (not ‘tragedy’) on 9/11/01 are graduating high school next year.
Can America stop the pansy hand wringing and rebuild a Tower or two before they are drawing Social Security?
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Just not a very clever logo, proclaiming invulnerability from an attack by their own mascot. Maybe they could change their mascot to “The Fighting Whities” http://www.t-shirtjunkies.com/comments/23_0_1_0_C/
iwanna buy that sweat shirt lol….
I’ve seen pictures and such representing the twin towers silhouette with an american flag and messages along the lines of “You can destroy our towers, but you can’t destroy America.” No one threw a fit over them. When I first heard about these shirts, I interpreted the message in the same way. Now I’m being told I’m wrong because the shirts were made by arabs in a predominantly arab school. Hypocrisy like this really pisses me off and makes me ashamed to be american.
AMEN!!
WIN
WIN
WIN
FREEDOM OF SPEECH WIN
Oh yeah, they look TOTALLY like the twin towers. (Maybe to blind people.) Talk about desperately looking for things to get upset about…
I really don’t think these look like the Twin Towers. I think most of the time in these situation people just see what they want to and make assumptions, kinda like seeing Jesus in your toast. Also, sadly some people just want an excuse to bash Muslims and try to not look like a bigot.
I think this is more of a Patriotic WIN than a fail. Just sayin…
This shirt was made with 100% full intention of mocking 9/11. Those kids were talking about it during class, but when the news got involved they played stupid.
When the Twin Towers were first built, there was a New York television station, WPIX, that had Channel 11 as their place on the dial [yes, there were dials then].
Sometime after the Towers were completed [and those took a while], WPIX rebranded itself, with a new logo and version of their slogan “Eleven Alive!”. To show off the change, they had a commercial with a man wandering around the area, trying to find a symbol, something big enough and grand enough to associate with the new Channel 11, and eventually the Towers come into view. The logo was pretty much the Towers, in a circle, with a slight angle on the top of each to evoke “11″.
The fact that it was the eleventh day of the month when the Towers fell was a rather unpleasant coincidence, on top of all the tragedy and loss.
Good job, I didn’t know that.
:O
i’m australian. i find this offensive.
whether you believe that it’s ‘just an image’ and people shouldn’t get upset, the point is, it still upsets people.
and it’s irrelevant if it was 3,000, 20,000 or 1 that died. it’s not a competition of ‘which disaster killed the most’. point is, people did die, and as a result, thousands of people were affected. it’s not ‘ok’ to do something like this, and say ‘its funny’ or ‘get over it’. there’s no way to comprehend what those involved suffered.
its called respect and being socially aware and considerate.
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REDRUM!
Hmm…I don’t think they were trying to insult anyone. I think they were trying to show their moral support by adding the slogan, “you can’t bring us down”, implying that regardless of the 9/11 events, America still stands tall.
Oh blurry Loui, whoa-oh-oh-oh,
You gotta’ go
Yeah yeah yeah yeah
Yeah blurry Loui, whoa–oh-oh-oh,
Gotta go right now…
Packers Lost
worst fail everrr!
”that little rat looking thing just got ate!! damn nature, you scary!”
I know what school this is, I live by it.
Man this conversation is more fail
I don’t see what’s so bad about this one. I actually like the slogan. It could’ve be much worse. It could’ve said “you’re going down like the Twin Towers.” Now that would’ve been bad.
How about “She went down on me like the Twin Towers”.
Now, THAT I like.
lol, itsme_crazydad,
that is brilliant
oh my god this is brilliant. I WANT ONE NOW
)))))
gimme gimme gimme.
I wanna be a t3rrori5t and i wanna get ston3d on mari- marijuana!
whats fail about this? i don’t get it.
It was 9 years ago get over it.
9/11 is not something people are likely going to get over. Having said that, there comes a time when some need to lighten up, just a little. Yes, this was in terrible taste, but face it: you’re on the internet. Most people here don’t care about your feelings.
And wherever it was that I read that this has more to do with paranoia than anything else, is definitely on to something.
How how how!!! LOL
The classic international community joke!!!
aww… so funny
Ok so the two ones are actually the twin towers because they have windows? and the eagle is actually a plane? americans can actually twist anything they want into something horrible i can’t see the fail in this
I was reading the comments and i hit something.
“you cant bring us down” means that we didnt fall completely apart from 9/11.
well, at least i THINK thats the meaning.
it would be patriotic like 50 years from now, but right now it’s just too soon
I actually went to this high school. It is in Dearborn, MI which has the highest density of Arabic people in the world other than the Middle East. What makes this hilarious is that it was not a school sanctioned shirt and was made entirely by the school’s Arab population.
In Soviet Russia, they make T-shirts of disasters!
you betcha. this makes me so proud to live in michigan..
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