After a global campaign was launched to boycott Dunkin’ Donuts for its bigotted removal of a commercial featuring one Rachael Ray wearing a scarf that looked a little too Arab (see: “Dunkin’ Zionuts“) the reaction from the UAE’s Dunkin’ Donuts regional offices is not surprising in the least. If they would have supported the boycott I think I would have had real hope that Palestine would be free within my lifetime. Or, at the very least, that the Israelis would let Fadi’s ass back in sometime this decade.
Instead (of course), the UAE’s Dunkin’ Donuts regional offices justify their support of dropping the ad with a delicious, “From a business point of view… It’s the smart thing to do.”
Gotta love them over at the United ARAB Emirates. But another example of how capitalism stopped being just about money a long time ago. Capitalism is not about selling things or buying things; it’s about how we treat each other. Its logic — the logic of greed, individualism and excess — defines our everyday morality, and in turn, eats our spines until there’s nothing left to take a stand with.
US chain in region ‘not to blame’
DUBAI: Boycotting Dunkin’ Donuts in the region would amount to punishing a blameless party, said a representative of the doughnut chain following calls for a global boycott due to its perceived succumbing to anti-Arab sentiments in the US.
Dunkin’ Donuts has been at the centre of a heated controversy for withdrawing an advertisement featuring celebrity chef Rachael Ray wearing a scarf that looks like the Arab ghutra, known in Palestine as the kafiyyah.
The decision to withdraw the advertisement came after right-wing bloggers in the US criticised the chain for “supporting terrorism” by dressing Ray in the scarf, which one blogger called “jihad chic”.
Following the removal, US-based anti-war group Answer launched a global boycott campaign against Dunkin’ Donuts.
While defending the decision by Dunkin’ Donuts to withdraw the advertisement, David Rogers, general manager of Dunkin’ Donuts for the UAE and Kuwait, said the chain’s regional offices have no say over what the head office in the United States does.
“We support their decision [to withdraw the advertisement] from a business point of view … any business would do it. It’s the smart thing to do,” said Rogers. “We would be penalised for something we have no say over.”
The group Answer said in a statement that the global boycott would “send a powerful message to Dunkin’ Donuts and other corporations who engage in racism or pandering to anti-Arab and anti-Muslim racists”.
From GulfNews.com
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Wow, I haven’t been here a while since I boycott this site like I boycott Rachel Ray, not because of the Kaffiyahs, but because I have good taste. And man, after reading QuiQui, I can totally understand why there won’t be a Palestine in her lifetime. If everyone fighting for your cause is as stupid and naive as QuiQui, it makes perfect sense. God, is she dumb. And Marx was a Joo by the way. Damn, you all just can’t get away from those damned Joos any way you try.
Posted by Anonymous | June 3, 2008, 8:38 amSorry for taking too long to respond to how ridiculous this post is! But fear not, KABOBfestWATCH ripps Quiqui a new one!
PLEASE FOLKS! READ KABOBfestWATCH!
LET’S BRING KABOBfest DOWN TOGETHER!
Posted by Programmer Buydatti | June 3, 2008, 9:28 amhi quiqui, i think you may be confusing the above anonymous with me (lebanese anonymous), unless there are two of us. (btw – since you have admin privileges, shouldn’t you be able to check our IP addresses and figure this out?)
anyways, dear, you should really try to stay in your own league, intellectually — there are some very solid arguments out there for alternate economic systems, but when people like you try without the necessary knowledge base, you only damage your cause and your credibility. i enjoyed the laughs, but aren’t you just a little embarrassed?
btw, i wouldn’t be bragging about all those econ/business degrees you’ve got in this context. based on what you’ve written here, those few people who actually believe you will simply assume you either 1) slept your way up through uni; or 2) have smoked so much hash in the interim, you’ve forgotten everything you learned.
Posted by Anonymous | June 3, 2008, 12:31 pmKabobfestwatch hurts my head.
And to the anonymous above me: Uh, a bit sexist to say people will “think she slept her way up through uni” (like that’s some common thing people do?), based on nothing except the fact that she’s a woman who disagrees with your opinion (and mine)?
Posted by Joe | June 3, 2008, 1:02 pmHaha, KabobfestWatch is Tyte! I will definitely blogroll and RSS it. Now I can see what junk the Kaboomfesters are spewing without actually giving them any traffic.
Posted by Anonymous | June 3, 2008, 7:29 pmUh…
1) You’ll still be giving them traffic. KabobFestWatch is just links to KabobFest articles with ‘jokes’ that wouldn’t even have counted as funny at my Jewish summer camp back in middle school.
2) Generally speaking, traffic costs money (bandwidth) — if you disagree with them, wouldn’t you *want* to give them traffic, then?
3) ‘Tyte’? …really?
Posted by Joe | June 3, 2008, 10:34 pmfuck you. kabobfestwatch is the greatest thing go have ever happened to this good for nothing piece of shit.
Posted by Anonymous | June 4, 2008, 7:19 amJoe,
1. Well, they were funny at my Jewish day camp. I don’t follow the links back here.
2. You have a poor understanding of hosting. You prepay for bandwidth, and only pay more when you have a traffic burst, say from a link from the drudge-report or something. With the depraved idiots and content here, I highly doubt that will happen soon. Secondly, they have ads for generating profit here on this anti-capitalist site (haha), so less traffic equals less clicks on the ads and a lower google ranking.
3. You have a problem with Ebonics Joe? Are you a racist?
Posted by Anonymous | June 4, 2008, 8:49 amYay capitalism. Yay Buydatti. Programmer Buydatti is a capitalist just like Ariel Sharon is a Zionist. Kabobfestwatch rulez.
Posted by Anonymous | June 4, 2008, 10:49 amif you dont like capitalism, give up everything you own and swim to the nearest jungle. live there and shut up.
kabobfestwatch is the only reason i visit this shit blog. if it weren’t for them, i’d have nothing interesting to read.
Posted by Anonymous | June 4, 2008, 11:03 amshou joe, guys can’t sleep their way to passing grades?
my comment was simply based on the fact that, if quiqui got the degrees she claims with the knowledge she displays, she either didn’t “earn” them properly in the first place, or has forgotten a shocking amount since then.
Posted by Anonymous | June 4, 2008, 1:45 pm“”3. You have a problem with Ebonics Joe? Are you a racist?”"
No, I have a problem with hilariously bad usages of ebonics. And yes, “Kabobfestwatch is Tyte!” qualifies as ‘hilariously bad usage’. Not to mention that like certain phrases like ‘da bomb’, ‘tyte’ has probably been used in enough bowling allies by middle-aged white guys with beer-bellies and Richard Karn facial hair that it has become a sort of ‘anti-ebonics’, like matter to anti-matter.
“”shou joe, guys can’t sleep their way to passing grades?”"
I don’t think *anybody* can sleep their way to ‘passing grades’, really? You’d have to literally get all your professors to sleep with you, male and female, and be willing to risk their entire careers to do so?
Also, last I checked, women are routinely accused without any evidence of having used sex or sexuality to get where they are in life, whereas the same baseless accusations are never leveled at men. In other words, blatant sexism.
“”
my comment was simply based on the fact that, if quiqui got the degrees she claims with the knowledge she displays, she either didn’t “earn” them properly in the first place, or has forgotten a shocking amount since then.”"
Okay, Occam’s razor time. Explain how the following options:
1) Degrees are just plain really easy to get these days. Grade inflation, lowered expectations and whatnot.
2) She earned her degree like anyone else, and she just so happens to disagree with you.
3) The things she studied were a specialty (degree programs have become increasingly specialized over time) that didn’t really require her to have the basic knowledge you consider relevant to the debate here.
…are all unworthy of mention, but “you probably slept your way to a degree” is totally likely enough to mention?
Your comment was blatantly sexist, plain and simple. It takes a lack of balls to make sexist comments, but it takes an especial lack of balls to be a little weasel about it when you’re called on it.
(As for the roots of QuiQui’s opinions on this topic, my best guess is option #2 above, tempered with a bit of #3.)
Posted by Joe | June 4, 2008, 4:23 pmum, how do you even know i disagree with quiqui? i never said as much. my complaint isn’t with her position, it’s that she can’t make it properly.
and listen, i’m sorry i apparently offended you, joe, but it wasn’t a sexist comment. i’d say the same thing to a guy who made an argument so poorly in a subject he claimed to have a degree in.
maybe you’re the sexist one for jumping to the conclusion that my comment was sexist?
this could get exhausting, so cut it out.
Posted by Anonymous | June 5, 2008, 1:50 pm“”
and listen, i’m sorry i apparently offended you, joe, but it wasn’t a sexist comment. i’d say the same thing to a guy who made an argument so poorly in a subject he claimed to have a degree in.”"
And yet, in the real world, the “you probably slept your way to a degree” comments always seem to be made against women.
But yeah, you claim you didn’t mean it as such, we’re not getting anywhere and QuiQui isn’t responding to either of our requests for more information on her position, so we’ll leave it at that.
Posted by Joe | June 5, 2008, 2:43 pm“Oh my god, she’s so hot
She’s so fucking hot, she’s like a curry
I gotta tell her how hot she is
But if I tell her how hot she is she’ll think I’m being sexist
She’s so hot, she’s making me sexist…bitch”
Posted by Amabo !80 | June 6, 2008, 2:27 pm