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Designer Tweets Egyptian Riots Due to His New Line Coming Out

Posted by samzenpus on from the foot-in-mouth dept.

Famous shoe designer Kenneth Cole stuck his fabulously shod foot into his mouth by tweeting, "Millions are in uproar in #Cairo. Rumor is they heard our new spring collection is now available online..." After an uproar from people who don't think revolution jokes are funny, he issued the following tweet: "we weren't intending to make light of a serious situation. We understand the sensitivity of this historic moment."

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  1. The /. crowd is no better by mr100percent · · Score: 5, Insightful

    People will always be idiots. If you go back and read the slashdot stories on 9/11/2001 there were morons who were posting "Someone set up us the bomb!"

    I suppose this one is more newsworthy by the fact that he put his real name on it and it's unusually tacky for someone considered so professional.

    1. Re:The /. crowd is no better by Zironic · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Fuck political correctness, if people want to joke about the revolution let them.

  2. Well done, enraged folks by fridaynightsmoke · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Congratulations. By retweeting and posting news stories about this, you've given this designer guy undreamed of publicity. I'm sure he's gutted.

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  3. Lol by scubamage · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I personally think its funny. In poor taste yes, but still funny.

  4. We need to laugh sometimes by Crag · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Two hypothetical 9/11inspried scenarios:

    1) 3000 people die at the hands of random extremists and nobody makes any jokes.

    2) 3000 people die at the hands of random extremists and someone references AYBABTU.

    I like the second scenario better. I probably won't laugh if I know a victim, but other people's laughter doesn't hurt me.

    Not laughing at tragedy doesn't make it less tragic. Laughing is one of the ways people cope. There is no harm in growing a thicker skin. We can still have feelings and care about life without revering life. Death happens.

    Life is for the living. Cry until you laugh, laugh until you can't breath then sleep it off and move on.