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Fan shirts of a rap group featuring two middle aged white guys have been banned from a local shopping mall…

January 10, 2008 · 2 Comments

No, I’m not joking

Reason being…the Reno Police Department has designated Insane Clown Posse as a gang.

Yep, these guys…

insane-clown-posse

I’m getting more than a little annoyed about how these concerns of people needing to feel safe in a public environment constitutes trampling on the free speech rights of others.  Sure, one could argue that Meadowood Mall is, in fact, private property, and that the right to pass is up to the will of the owners (or the overtly paranoid security guards, who’s ever bug you scare up first).   But in a place as large as a shopping mall, wouldn’t you normally spend your time doing something OTHER than looking for something to feel threatened by?   I mean, a t-shirt isn’t going to shoot you, is it?

This was why I never jumped on the “ban sexist rap videos” bandwagon.  I don’t like them, but they were not made for me.  I am not part of the target audience for these things, and that’s ok by me.  If, god forbid, I’m morbidly offended by something I see on MTV, what’s to stop me from…

just…changing…the…channel??!?!??!?

That’s how I vote.  

Instigating a banning of a type of music, or video, because you don’t like it just makes you look like a fascist, elitist moron.

Hence, if you don’t like what a T-shirt says…

DON’T…FUCKING…LOOK

AT IT!!!!!

That is all…

In other news…

Sir Edmund Hillary, most famous for climbing a mountain (yes, I know he did much more than that) has died. 

RIP

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