PSU T-Shirt: Stupidest Controversy Ever
By Wyatt Earp | October 27, 2009
See the shirt on the right? Yeah, that one. Well, it is the subject of a huge controversy on the Penn State campus. Apparently, six people out of 30,000 complained about it. Why? Because they think the logo looks like a Christian cross.
Six people out of 30,000 who purchased the shirt. Watch the morons at PSU change the logo to pacify the six. Like I need another reason to hate that school.
A blue, cross-like design emblazoned on T-shirts at Penn State University has some critics seeing red.
The shirts — intended to foster school spirit — sport a vertical blue line down the center with the words “Penn State White Out” emblazoned across the chest, forming a design that some say resembles a cross. The back of the shirt depicts the same blue line obscured by the words, “Don’t be intimated … It’s just me and 110,000 of my friends.” Roughly 30,000 of the shirts have been sold.
The vertical blue line is similar to the one that is on the helmets, idiots! Not that that matters to the six troublemakers. Personally, I think that’s not the offensive part of the shirt. It’s the “White Out” phrase on the front. That’s racist!
Penn State says it has received six complaints about the shirt, including one from the Anti-Defamation League’s Philadelphia branch, from people who say it connotes a Christian cross. The logo design also has become the focus of controversy in the student newspaper, “The Daily Collegian,” which has received several letters to the editor on both sides of the issue.
How did I know that Philly numbskulls would be involved in this nonsense. Hey jackasses, if this were such a problem, PSU alums would stop saying “The sky is blue because God’s favorite team is Penn State.” Besides, don’t you think 200-year old coach Joe Paterno should be paying homage to God for letting him live so long?
Michal Berns, a junior majoring in media law and policy, said she refused to buy the $15 shirt because of its religious connotations.
“At first glance, you don’t necessarily think that’s what it looks like, but when you look at it more, it does look like a cross,” Berns told Foxnews.com. “That’s the reason I didn’t purchase it.” (H/T – FOXNews)
And you, sir, are a dope. Forget the shirt: it’s a non-issue. Change the stadium’s name, because “Beaver Stadium” is sexist and profane!
Topics: Snarkasm | 17 Comments »
October 27th, 2009 at 8:44 am
Wow! Six people out of 30,000 yeilds 0.02%, a truly signifigant portion that must be appeased. We can’t have something liked by 99.98% and let them get away with it. Get out the pitchforks..light the torches..blow the trumpets..sound the charge! (Mounting camel and drawing the simitar)……”Tonight we sleep in Akaba!”
October 27th, 2009 at 9:06 am
Jon – I’m in! Let’s ride!
October 27th, 2009 at 9:15 am
For all the indignation expressed by all of these people (all six of them), you’d think that the shirt had a swastika on it or something.
October 27th, 2009 at 9:24 am
We’ve got to be careful Wyatt. Even though we outnumber them by 5000 to 1, this could be a long drawn out campaign. One of our spotters saw an Armani suited lawyer behind their lines so I think we should flank em hitting their supply line first and seizing all their Guiness Stout. That should take the fight out of ‘em.
October 27th, 2009 at 9:27 am
Have people lost all perspective? Someone or rather 6 someones need to get a grip! There must be more important things, as a university student, for them to worry about. Perhaps, midterms. I’m just sayin’
October 27th, 2009 at 10:03 am
I’m offended by the shirt because it says Penn State on it.
October 27th, 2009 at 10:13 am
200 YEAR OLD JOE PA! GOOD ONE WYATT!
October 27th, 2009 at 10:47 am
You should see the stink because Washburn University used the same W as Wisconsin. It was a blue W and they thought people would get it confused with the red W that Wisconsin uses. Stupid people do stupid things. MUD
October 27th, 2009 at 12:30 pm
What idiots. The marketing genius that did not buy it has that has his choice. If you don’t like it then do not wear it dumb ass. I did not read anywhere in the story that students were required to wear the shirt. It is not like it is a burqa.
I too am offended that it says White Out. Does that mean white people are not welcome at Penn? Any reference to color should be eliminated from our vocabulary.
October 27th, 2009 at 12:58 pm
Yeah yeah, everyone hates Penn State, haha. Fair enough.
Having graduated from Penn State 2 years ago, I can tell you that this kind of crap happened every year I was up there…Everything from accusing the University of using child labor for clothing to something like this.
There’s a huge Christian presence on the campus – a lot of local churches actually pay people to preach to students. They stand in the most crowded parts of the campus, bible in one hand, the other raised to the sky, and just yell at students walking by about how their lives are worthless without their brand of religion.
So, this doesn’t surprise me. All kinds of asinine protests went on every semester.
October 27th, 2009 at 2:04 pm
GO BUCKEYES!!!
October 27th, 2009 at 2:28 pm
John D – No, this is worse. It’s a CATHOLIC CROSS!!!
Jon Brooks – I hereby volunteer to go behind enemy lines for the Guinness.
MeToo – Exams? What are those?
Randal – Agreed. Spoken like a true Drexel Dragon.
AJ – Okay, I rounded down for him, but you get the idea.
MUD – Well, if the people are color blind . . .
Ingineer66 – Just like when I’m at work and use “correction fluid.”
Andrew – And events. My wife dragged me to Arts Fest one year. *gag* Terrible hippie event, in my opinion.
GroovyVic – Shut. Up!!! And that’s not just because Michigan stinks this year.
October 27th, 2009 at 9:59 pm
There’s a huge Christian presence on the campus – a lot of local churches actually pay people to preach to students. They stand in the most crowded parts of the campus, bible in one hand, the other raised to the sky, and just yell at students walking by about how their lives are worthless without their brand of religion.
A lot of good that does. Isn’t Penn State one of the biggest party schools, now?
It is so obviously not a cross. Idiots.
October 27th, 2009 at 10:03 pm
Never a Penn State fan, it took me a while, and maybe more, to figure out what White Out meant, but I finally figured it meant the team was like an avalanche – right? Not that they were secretarial school graduates that could correct typos with liquid paper…. I do think it is all about nothing, like there aren’t life and death things going on elsewhere that the press could cover.
October 28th, 2009 at 12:19 pm
Ha ha ha ha ha ha HA!
October 28th, 2009 at 6:36 pm
Having a swastika on it would be OK. Those 5,000 Jews complaining about the swastika are just islamophobic Zionist’s so we’ll keep the shirt. They just need to embrace the multi-culturalism of our society.
Six people complaining that, if you squint a little and tilt your head to the left it looks like a Christian Cross? Recall and burn the entire print run. Can’t have anyone feel offended by Christianity now, can we?
October 29th, 2009 at 8:59 pm
Joe Paterno’s first team, the Palestine State Nutless Lions, went 0-10 and got crucified in the Rome Dome by Julius Caesar’s undefeated Praetorian State Centurions. The Centurions went on to be voted Imperial Champions by a unanimous vote among all of the major polls and their multi-talented QB, Schlongus Maximus, was named the MVP. (Most Veinous Penis)
The Centurions continued their complete dominance of the ancient world’s football scene until the Savage Eastern Conference (SEC) Barbarians, led by all-world QB, Timmius Tebowian, literally kicked down the gates of the Imperial stadiums and began a ruthless campaign of complete and utter mayhem that lasted for centuries and forever ended the stranglehold of football power that the elitist powerhouses of the Big X had held over everyone’s heads for nearly a millenium.