thedailywhat:

This Is All Kinds Of Wrong of the Day: At the encouragement of conservative “values promoting” organization Florida Family Association, the national home improvement chain Lowe’s has decided to pull their advertising from TLC’s groundbreaking reality show All-American Muslim.

In an email sent to Lowe’s and other advertisers, FFA refers to All-American Muslim —  a show which follows the members of five families as they deal with the everyday difficulties of being Muslim in America — as “propaganda that riskily hides the Islamic agenda’s clear and present danger to American liberties and traditional values.”

According to the Association’s website, Lowe’s responded to the e-mail by saying that the show does not “meet Lowe’s advertising guidelines,” and therefore the company “will no longer be advertising on that program.”

Reached for comment by The Hollywood Reporter, a spokewoman for Lowe’s said concerns and complaints were raised “from multiple sides of the viewer spectrum” on various news sites and blogs. “We based our decision to pull the advertising on this research and after hearing the concerns we received through emails, calls, through social media and in news reports.”

TLC said that, despite Lowe’s withdrawal, advertising support for the show remains strong.

Outrage over the move continues to grow, however. One Twitter user likely spoke for many when he asked, “will you next consider KKKs demands to pull ads from BET?”

It’s worth noting that The Home Depot, the largest home improvement retailer in the US, is still supporting the show with its ads.

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This may just be me having a false-consensus bias, but the companies pulling their advertising makes me not want to buy anything from those places ever again and I think many others feel the same way. 

Also, if I’m not mistaken, Christians have a VERY long and colorful (blood red) history of terrorizing for the sake of their own agenda (Crusades, Spanish Inquisition, Holocaust, etc.).

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Hell’s Angel dog being being frisked at one of the Occupy protests.

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I don’t know whether to laugh or cry fdhdjssjdf

The dog was found to be carrying three knives, two guns and a small baggie of the dankest weed the officer had ever came across.

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I’ve seen a lot of photos of Ryan Gosling but I’ve never seen this photo and oh god. Oh man oh god oh man. Get in me.

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I wish you and your family in this season, a happy and heartfelt end of the fiscal fourth quarter. [x]

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People say “Happy Holidays” because there are other holidays in December than just Christmas, and we like to practice a little thing I like to call respect.

Some people celebrate Hanukkah. Some people celebrate Kwanzaa. Some people celebrate the winter solstice. Most people celebrate the new…

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Jon Corzine told Congress yesterday that he has no idea where $1.2 billion disappeared to. Our Jillian Melchior was there to watch him stammer, and she says there’s a lesson to be learned about the limits of regulation. 

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New Because We Must shirt! Inspired by a picture taken at the Seattle Slut-Walk. Proceeds going to SARC in Portland, OR.

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I think the next time I have a discussion about rape culture and someone pulls the “but look at what she was wearing/drinking” argument - I might just ask them “so let me get ths straight - I take it you force yourself on every provocatively dressed/intoxicated person you see?”

The “people shouldn’t do certain things if they don’t want to get raped” crowd needs to stop and chat with the “we’re tired of feminists acting like all men are rapists” crowd and decide which message they would rather us listen to. Cause the shit literally makes no sense. Obviously men aren’t uncontrollable rape machines so… 

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Some of the biggest names in American retail have been linked to a Jordanian garment factory that allegedly rapes, tortures, and abuses its female workers, according to a report by the Institute of Global Labour and Human Rights, formerly known as the National Labor Committee. In a petition on Change.org, the human-rights organization accuses supervisors at Classic Factory, which supplies clothing to Walmart, Target, Macy’s, Kohl’s, Hanes, and Land’s End, of sexually assaulting dozens of migrant workers from Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, most of whom are virtually imprisoned in dilapidated surroundings. “We only went to Jordan to earn money to help our families,” says a young woman who goes by the name “Nazma” to protect her identity. “We had no idea that factory managers would rape so many of us young girls.”

I don’t like to reblog too often, but look at this.

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