Urban Outfitters In Hot Water For Selling This “Auschwitz Chic” T Shirt
This Urban Outfitters T-shirt has been labeled ‘Auschwitz chic’ and retails for $100.
Times Of Israel - American clothing company Urban Outfitters is courting controversy over a T-shirt bearing a six-pointed star resembling the one Jews were forced to wear by the Nazis. The “patchwork Star of David on the left breast pocket… harkens back to 1930s and 40s Europe,” the Canada Free Press suggested, sarcastically describing the look as “Auschwitz chic.” While the star itself is blue, the “vintage yellow color” of the rest of the shirt will look familiar to students of Nazi Germany, the article notes. The shirt, which has already been denounced by the Anti-Defamation League, is hardly the first Urban Outfitters item to earn objections. Previous pieces sold by the chain have offended Navajos and African-Americans, among others. 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.
Well this is just downright disgusting. How could anyone at Urban Outfitters think this was a good idea?
Everyone knows Auschwitz swag isn’t worth a penny more than 75 bucks! I mean, a hundred dollars for this piece of shit t shirt is a little outrageous no? And not to be insensitive here, but does Urban Outfitters realize who their target market is with this shirt? Good luck getting Schmuel Lebowitz to drop a hundred bucks on a T.
Also I’m not sure designing your t shirts with Nazi brands is a good marketing tactic either, but lets call a spade a spade the price point is out of control. Might as well sell $200 henna tattoos of serial numbers too you morons.
I think it’s 100 Canadian dollars which is only like $5 in the U.S.
100 Canadian is roughly $99 US dollars you bozo. Check googlefinance.com.
they had some news about some shirts that were deemed racist last week, could care less about urban outfitters bro
can you please ban the dude promoting knockedthefuckout.com… his blogs all use the same fucking phrase as all of these..
Heebs, too many of them,
@Martian No need to check with Google. You’d have to be a moron if you can’t detect the sarcasm or humor implied in my previous statement
The whole ‘holocaust thing’ is so long ago it’s time we just get over it. Like putting these 80 year old guys into jail because they are ‘war criminals.’ Please, let’s just move on.
Be much nicer if it was long sleeved with an individual number stitched on one sleeve
“The whole ‘holocaust thing’ is so long ago it’s time we just get over it.”. What the hell???? 11 million innocent people died in mass killings. Gas chambers, starvation, shootings just to name a few of the methods. google image it and you wont be able to sleep for weeks. It’s people like you that will allow for something like this to happen again.