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1. netdiva wrote:

   oh what a kneeslapper!

   (crickets)

   Posted 26 Nov 2007 at 12:08 pm ¶

2. brighstarr wrote:

   This is SO ironic. I was JUST on this site last night looking for funny t-shirts. I did notice and bookmark the bros before hos shirt thinking that was quite interesting for a future blog post. They definitely had more than a few racist tees, but it wasn’t all that surprising to me. What would be surprising would be for a punk @ss kid to wear the shirt thinking he’s cool. I feel sorry for the kid already, damn. Just to help my melanin deficient friends: Have fun reading the shirts - MAD FUNNY - but don’t get caught wearing that in front of the wrong person. I’m just sayin…

   Posted 26 Nov 2007 at 12:23 pm ¶

3. Lyonside wrote:

   Um… the pyramids, or at least one of them, wasn’t so much slave labor but paid (in the sense that food and shelter were provided) religious labor, done by the lower classes when the Nile was flooded and no farming could be done, much like how many of the European cathedrals were built. There was a recent archaeological dig proving as much.

   As for REAL slavery, past and the forms of it presently, way to trivialize human suffering.

   Posted 26 Nov 2007 at 12:33 pm ¶

4. Latoya Peterson wrote:

   At times like this, we really need some canned booing. Or maybe a booing chorus.

   Posted 26 Nov 2007 at 12:35 pm ¶

5. HighJive wrote:

   it would be ironic if the t-shirts were produced by slave children in foreign sweatshops.

   Posted 26 Nov 2007 at 1:17 pm ¶

6. Jim Raff wrote:

   Add to the Irony.

   Thy pyramids were not build by slave labor. In fact, they were built as a kind of national service project in about 2500 BCE. This seems to build on the myth that the isrealites slave labor built them. They were build about 1000 - 1500 years before the Isrealites were in Egypt.

   Idiocy builds idiocy.

   Posted 26 Nov 2007 at 3:01 pm ¶

7. Siva wrote:

   The designers of this shirt are typical products of the wretched American public school system. Those pyramids were erected by Egyptian conscripts, not slave labour.

   This humour is similiar to the kind you’ll see on sites like 4chan, 7chan, Encyclopedia Dramatica, etc. Just go there and click on /b/. Those communities of /b/tards are responsible for the “ironic” photoshopped image craze(cute stuff like lolcats and shocking stuff like goatse). This TSHIRTHELL douchebaggery is a tame version of the kind of stuff that is on those sites.

   In the 90’s I didn’t see such rampant racism and hate on the Internet. The comment sections on Youtube are so infested with this that many people just turn their video comments off. If you are black, turn on your cam and go on Stickam. Go from room to room and you will at some point see in the chat text, “look, its a nigger lol” or something to that effect. Others will then join in on the abuse or sit there, apathetic to it all.

   I was in a chat on Stickam and I gave out a link to the Philadelphia Homicide Map from the Inquirer, because we were talking about Philadelphia. One white teen clicked on it, looked at it for a minute and then wrote, “Lol, they’re all Niggers!” The white girl hosting the chat expressed happiness that the map showed no murders in her middle-class neighborhood. I got disgusted and left.

   Posted 26 Nov 2007 at 3:45 pm ¶

8. Jayla wrote:

   I think site was also home to gems like, “I like my women like my chicken: battered” and “It’s not rape if she’s not awake,” so yeah. I’m sure their crack team of white males is toiling away in their misguided ironic hipster lab creating a newer, more offensive t-shirt.

   Posted 26 Nov 2007 at 5:25 pm ¶

9. Mike wrote:

   Lyonside wrote:

   “Um… the pyramids, or at least one of them, wasn’t so much slave labor but paid (in the sense that food and shelter were provided) ”

   LOL YOU GOT TO BE PLAYING.

   Posted 26 Nov 2007 at 9:57 pm ¶

10. K. wrote:

    With the 4chan remarks, it’s because the kids responsible for that don’t feel as if there will be any consequence for what they do over the internet. And since they’re white, there will be no consequence for what they do in society. It’s all on the internet, and to them, they don’t have to worry about it.

    Basically, we’re in a culture now of people who think trying to be as offensive as possible as long as it doesn’t affect them is funny, but if you tell them that “It’s not funny,” you’re being PC and are missing the point.

    I love how white males can be blatantly racist, but the second you call them out on it, they so easily deny it and no consequence is to be had.

    Posted 26 Nov 2007 at 11:15 pm ¶

11. dnA wrote:

    “Dude, it wasn’t rape, I bought her Dinner!”

    Posted 27 Nov 2007 at 1:51 am ¶

12. dnA wrote:

    As a side note, anyone else feel like making a t shirt that says “Nat Turner Gets Shit Done?”

    Posted 27 Nov 2007 at 1:52 am ¶

13. rikyrah wrote:

    If you wear this, this is an invitation for a beatdown.

    That.is.all.

    Posted 27 Nov 2007 at 10:01 am ¶

14. bdsista wrote:

    Just coming back from Egypt, it is true that the pyramids were not build with slave labor. Recent digs indicate that it was paid,and entire villages existed to house workers and their families and if you were a manager it could potentially be a stepping stone to Vizier. It was religious in nature and many skills were used in building the pyramids, such as scribes who wrote the cartoches and stella on the front of the tombs. Artists and scribes who did the artwork and writing inside of the tombs as well as other artisans. So the T-shirt perpeturates old ignorant stereotypes and I give a big boooooo! with LaToya! I would like to watch the beatdown.

    Posted 27 Nov 2007 at 1:36 pm ¶

15. Lyonside wrote:

    Mike:

    It was a series of digs, starting in the 19th century into the 21st century, that has uncovered (in various stages) a bakery, some trades shops that would have supported the workers, artisans’ areas, and living quarters.

    “Then in 1888 the theory was finally confirmed, when British archaeologist Flinders Petrie started his investigation into the Middle Kingdom pyramid complex of Senwosert II at Ilahun. Here an associated walled settlement, Kahun, yielded a complete town plan whose neat rows of mud-brick terraced houses provided a wealth of papyri, pottery, tools, clothing and children’s toys - all the debris of day-to-day life that is usually missing from Egyptian sites.”

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/egyptians/pyramid_builders_01.shtml

    http://www7.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/data/2001/11/01/html/ft_20011101.5.html

    http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/08/0805_020805_giza.html

    http://guardians.net/hawass/buildtomb.htm

    But you must be right - National Geographic and the BBC must be just J/K LOL!!!11!!!

    Posted 27 Nov 2007 at 1:48 pm ¶

16. Lyonside wrote:

    Mike - upon re-reading, I’m guessing you think I’m trivializing slavery? Never in a million years, man.

    Did you miss the part where I compared it to RELIGIOUS DEVOTION like cathedral-building?

    Posted 27 Nov 2007 at 1:57 pm ¶

17. Mike wrote:

    dnA wrote:

    “Dude, it wasn’t rape, I bought her Dinner!”

    As a side note, anyone else feel like making a t shirt that says “Nat Turner Gets Shit Done?”

    LOL that was good.

    Lyonside

    I see what you are thinking but some how I do not believe it was as simple as that.

    But the Point is the T-shirts makers were not thinking about that. There point was very clear.

    Posted 27 Nov 2007 at 4:35 pm ¶

18. Fiqah wrote:

    dnA: Nat Turner. LMAO! You are just wrong.

    Posted 27 Nov 2007 at 4:48 pm ¶

19. Lyonside wrote:

    Mike: I’m not saying it was that simple, especially since at that time everyday transactions were part of a barter economy, and the ancient Egyptians saw little division among religious, political, and secular life - serving the Pharaoah also worked in your favor materially and in the afterlife. There’s a difference between socially sanctioned and supported labor, and forced labor. Were people likely “encouraged?” Or in lowly positions where physical labor was the only option for them? Almost certainly, as with any multitiered society. But there’s a gulf between that and “owning” human beings.

    I agree - the T shirt makers are using falsehoods to casually trivialize slavery. Under the guise of “humor.”

    For pyramid humor, though, I prefer this:
    http://www.despair.com/achievement.html

    Posted 27 Nov 2007 at 6:29 pm ¶

20. TheLostGirl wrote:

    Oh. Wow. That’s a corker. It’s not even just outrageous that people actually make this t-shirt. It’s the morons who think its funny wear that I’m worried about!

    Posted 27 Nov 2007 at 8:22 pm ¶

21. Curtis P wrote:

    On the one hand, in ancient times slavery didn’t have anything to do with race.

    On the other hand, in the last 400 years, slavery was heavily tied to race, is directly responsible for race relations today, and will be for the forseeable future.

    So I guess that while the shirt is not technically racist, it’s still damn insulting.

    Posted 27 Nov 2007 at 11:44 pm ¶

22. Weltschmerz wrote:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBQxPUBks_U

    Posted 28 Nov 2007 at 12:21 am ¶

23. deb wrote:

    As a side note, anyone else feel like making a t shirt that says “Nat Turner Gets Shit Done?”

    Good call!

    How about: “Nat Turner Did the Damn Thing!”

    Posted 28 Nov 2007 at 7:59 pm ¶

24. Carlos Gabanas wrote:

    Before hating on anyone for their expression, consider that it is the asshole behind the message that counts, not just the message! My circle of friends resembles the UN Assembly, and they thought the shirt was funny - once the pyramid background was taken into account. Had the same shirt had a field of cotton behind the words…..well that’d be beyond harsh!

    Posted 28 Jun 2008 at 3:09 pm ¶

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