Boycott Spencer Gifts - Racist "Asian" Shirts
Sign Now
To Spencer Gifts:
You obviously learned nothing from the Abercrombie & Fitch debacle. We are appalled and disgusted by your line of Asian-themed t-shirts featuring stereotyped Asian caricatures and offensive text. The shirt that reads SUK MAI COCK POULTRY FARM is an obvious mockery of the Chinese language and sophomoric jab at Asians and their supposed difficulty with English spelling and comprehension. The shirt featuring the likeness of Buddha, which reads I MAY BE FAT BUT MY COCK IS HUGE, demonstrates blatant disrespect for a religious deity and the religions followers. One need only replace the image of Buddha with that of Jesus Christ and swap fat with skinny to see how offensive this would be to the Christian majority. Finally, the shirt that reads HANG OUT WITH YOUR WANG OUT features a caricature of a slanted-eyed, buck-toothed Chinese man wearing a queue and rice paddy hat and childishly holding his penis. This image is demeaning and painfully reminiscent of racist images in popular culture in the early 1900s.
Whether you intended to offend or to be funny and irreverent is not the issue. The issue is that the shirts are plainly offensive. Images like those on shirts sold by Spencer Gifts serve to promote the misleading notion that Asians are exotic foreigners to be insulted and ridiculed without consequence.
The shirts are not funny, innovative, novel, or edgy. They are racist and degrading and we demand an official public apology and a recall of the aforementioned shirts. Until then, we vow to boycott Spencer Online and all Spencer Gifts stores and encourage others to do the same.
You obviously learned nothing from the Abercrombie & Fitch debacle. We are appalled and disgusted by your line of Asian-themed t-shirts featuring stereotyped Asian caricatures and offensive text. The shirt that reads SUK MAI COCK POULTRY FARM is an obvious mockery of the Chinese language and sophomoric jab at Asians and their supposed difficulty with English spelling and comprehension. The shirt featuring the likeness of Buddha, which reads I MAY BE FAT BUT MY COCK IS HUGE, demonstrates blatant disrespect for a religious deity and the religions followers. One need only replace the image of Buddha with that of Jesus Christ and swap fat with skinny to see how offensive this would be to the Christian majority. Finally, the shirt that reads HANG OUT WITH YOUR WANG OUT features a caricature of a slanted-eyed, buck-toothed Chinese man wearing a queue and rice paddy hat and childishly holding his penis. This image is demeaning and painfully reminiscent of racist images in popular culture in the early 1900s.
Whether you intended to offend or to be funny and irreverent is not the issue. The issue is that the shirts are plainly offensive. Images like those on shirts sold by Spencer Gifts serve to promote the misleading notion that Asians are exotic foreigners to be insulted and ridiculed without consequence.
The shirts are not funny, innovative, novel, or edgy. They are racist and degrading and we demand an official public apology and a recall of the aforementioned shirts. Until then, we vow to boycott Spencer Online and all Spencer Gifts stores and encourage others to do the same.
Sign The Petition
Continue with Google
OR
If you already have an account please sign in, otherwise register an account for free then sign the petition filling the fields below.
Email and password will be your account data, you will be able to sign other petitions after logging in.
Shoutbox
Goal
1,000 signatures
Goal: 1,000
Latest Signatures
19 February 2016
15 February 2016
999.
Jeffrey C
|
City, State/Province
newport Beach, CA
Personal Statement/
Whoever takes the liberty to make fun of the Asian Culture and their people are obviously ignorant, and have no respect for others. If they're Christian, I hope God does his worst on them.
9 February 2016
998.
Brian Garcia
|
City, State/Province
Franklin Square, NY
Personal Statement/
Any offensive remarks printed on anything are not funny materials and should not be on display
8 February 2016
7 February 2016
26 January 2016
21 January 2016
21 January 2016
20 January 2016
992.
Denise Z
|
City, State/Province
Hanover, NH
Personal Statement/
How would YOU like it if someone sold T-shirts making fun of WASPs?
10 January 2016
8 January 2016
7 January 2016
7 January 2016
7 January 2016
6 January 2016
3 January 2016
31 December 2015
31 December 2015
31 December 2015
982.
Joey Y
|
City, State/Province
SLC, UT
Personal Statement/
Freedom to speech is not equal to discriminate
20 December 2015
16 December 2015
12 December 2015
979.
Ff Moon
|
City, State/Province
New Jersey
Personal Statement/
Disgusting. Asians are the only race that ignorant white ppl can make fun of without getting into "trouble". You never see any African Americans or jewish ppl being targeted because those are too "contro
12 December 2015
12 December 2015
7 December 2015
Tags
No tags
Embed Codes
direct link
link for html
link for forum without title
link for forum with title
