encyclopedia of racist products

Well, ILX/I got it from Professor Ann Bartow, who probably heard it from elsewhere - I mean, it took me a second, after which second I was like "are you guys serious? a burning cross on a lawn? for Christmas? you're joking, right?"

Let Your “Light” Shine For Christ This Christmas Season!

inappropriate roffles

LOL

what part of this is "burning"?

the AFA online store has been much blogged about in the last week and a half
the video they sell about the gays coming to your town to take it over was a popular topic as well

that site is hilarious

(fwiw I think this falls much more easily into the "tacky" bucket than the "racist" one)
(also everyone should be psyched when the gays take over, that's when your property values go up)

guys look at these racist frenchmen omg:
http://i33.tinypic.com/ajoz83.jpg

they don't seem to understand the concept of suggested donations

so sick of fucking justice

well stop fucking them, then

ps thanks to that site, today I have learned that women's gym Curves is run by scary God-bothers with horrible taste in music:

https://store.afa.net/pc-53-6-curves-freedom-fitness-cd-united-we-stand.aspx

Oh, I already knew that! It's one of the reasons I didn't renew my Curves membership when it lapsed. Although the music at our gym was better.

https://store.afa.net/pc-54-6-curves-freedom-fitness-cd-vol-2.aspx

Is the world ready for a handbag house version of "You Lift Me Up"?

https://store.afa.net/p-42-its-not-gay-dvd.aspx

waht

Falling into the tacky bucket:

http://kidshow.dcmemories.com/BozoWinner_230.jpg

Dan, you have a stronger stomach than I, to be browsing through that site. Make Laurel angry.

The one about the gays taking over Arkansas looks pretty fucking funny!

https://store.afa.net/pc-33-4-i-surrender-all-rebuilding-a-marriage-broken-by-pornography.aspx

hahahahaahahahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahhahahahahaha

https://store.afa.net/pc-10000134-2-i-was-wrong-dvd.aspx

oyce Zounis' choice of abortion, not once but seven times, nearly cost her life.

I think that maybe abortion isn't the problem here.

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i'm with Laurel on this one. site is making me feel ill.

what part of this is "burning"?

gosh you're right gabs, a lit cross on a lawn in no way recalls crosses burning on lawns, it's just a bottle opener after all

srsly would consider plunking down $82 for a 5.5 ft light-up combination cross/bottle opener

It'd be perfect for opening this:

http://www.wotif.com/webdata/image/promotion/big_bottle.jpg

John, I really do not disagree w you that this product should never have reached the market, but I think you're VASTLY overestimating the mental complexity of both the creators and their market. Even when it's punitive, racist, and evil, this religious belief/lifestyle set is IMMENSELY earnest. And not very sophisticated, nuanced, etc.

it's not just that it's a "light-up cross", the construction of it (ie lumpy lights) WOULD and DOES resemble fire. it's not purposeful but that doesn't stop it from being retarded and anyone who is saying otherwise is a disingenuous spoiled white brat OR a secret british. DEAL

xpost more directed at gabbneb and kerm than you, laurel, but i think it's pretty lame to pretend everyone purchasing this product is some kind of forrest gump.

I think it's pretty accurate to pretend everyone purchasing this product is some kind of Forrest Gump!

"Life is like a box of racist products."

Ned for win

I have no idea who's purchasing the thing, I don't know who's purchasing those propaganda videos either but they make my skin crawl. The cross strikes me as being as tacky as light-up Baby Jesuses for your lawn at Christmas, but if not for ILX I would have passed right over it! Maybe I'm just being naive/sheltered?

lolz Ned zing

I just have this strong feeling that the light-up cross is going to be hung from the pinnacle of garages as the "nativity star" in neon creche scenes for the holidays. I wouldn't put ANYTHING past those people.

I'm just trying to imagine the mindset of someone who sees a 5+ft light-up cross and thinks "IT'S PERFECT" but I am probably discounting the part where the person is earnestly browsing this site intending to make a purchase.

they're taking it back.

For instance: I'm kind of shocked there isn't one in this photo:

http://studio1seven.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/MWC/_DSC5234.JPG

the cross came later.

Then there's the institutional level example -- this is about five blocks away from me (sorry about the small photo size):

http://www.markdroberts.com/images/TBN-Xmas-lights-5.jpg

http://doesthisblogmakemybuttlookbig.com/wp-content/uploads/7_flogging.jpg

xxp Yeah, I mean, who the hell would crucify a newborn?

https://store.afa.net/pc-29-4-god-cannot-be-trusted-and-five-other-lies-of-satan.aspx

lol poor cover design
also, the prize should include a new car

J0hn, are you aware that
a) in America, there are vast numbers of people who like to put large collections of small lights with a Christmas holiday theme all over their lawns and houses
and
b) in the contemporary United States, there are vast numbers of people who have very little knowledge of history, and that the knowledge of religious fundamentalists in the interior West about the pre-civil rights era South might be more diminished than most?

what are these people saying - i'm going to burn my own house down? these might be dumb questions, but they're no dumber than the notion that a cross wrapped in holiday lights rather than with the lights fused to the cross is a vague, subtextual, public advertisement of the owner's enjoyment in appropriating racist symbols. or are you suggesting that someone would buy this for intimidation purposes. what are the mixed-race neighborhoods you imagine being the target market here?

Gabbneb, the idea of you schooling J0hn on these points is the best laugh I've had all day.

that's kind of the point here, Ned

sorry I'm not an itinerant OC/midwestern/Southerner, it's such a personal failing

Now I am SUPER doubting my take on this, because gabbneb is making sense to me. I wish it were coming from someone else, I really do, but...stopped clocks, once, etc.

fyi i'm a south carolinian born n raised who went to school with the kids of grand dragons and when i saw this i didnt think kkk

gabbneb is still a dick tho

what are the mixed-race neighborhoods you imagine being the target market here?

waht

oh nvr mind, I get it, at first it parsed like "mulattos be buyin' racist crosses!"