Fireworks, racist or not RULE! I used to love bottle rocket fights when I was a teenager. And I'd buy these just to spite the people who take it too seriously. No I wouldn't buy anything out of spite. That just sounds stupid and petty. But my point is just because someone may find something offensive doesn't mean a product should be removed from the shelves and it doesn't mean that some stupid kid somewhere is going to form an opinion about Muslims based upon some caricature on a box of fireworks.
Yeah, you wouldn't buy
anything out of spite, just these moronic fireworks.
I think you were
almost reflective there for a moment, weren't you?
But not quite.
Anyway, these are awful. This is making the bonehead-warrior crusade aspect of the war akin to backyard child's play. Just what we need - kids and their "parents" (for those who actually bother to monitor the fireworks usage) play-acting G.I. Joe kicking some Iraqi/terrorist/"Mozlem"/towelhead/diaperhead/Ay-rab/Afganny/sand-****** (etc) ass! Pathetic.
The soldiers and private contractors-with-guns who do the "Run, Hadji, run!" schtick before, say, indiscriminately mowing a group of people down or stacking up piles of naked prisoners are precisely the ones who are adding fuel to the fire of Arabic and Muslim hatred of Americans, and they're provoking further terrorist attacks.
Aside from the bigoted nature of the packaging, it's just plain stupid and counterproductive. It trivializes war and also promotes the sickest (but perhaps truest) interpretation of the purpose of the war.