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Posted on 01-26-11 04:10:31 PM

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Are we sure this is store policy? Maybe someone just screwed up the filing...

But yeah, finding that image of all things offensive is kind of screwed up.

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Posted on 01-26-11 04:11:39 PM

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And the mythical belief that children's eyeballs will melt if they're exposed to any relationship that's not a traditional opposite-sex marriage continues. All this shit accomplishes is it makes people hate LGBT individuals and partnerships more because they think they are to be hated and feared. Which was probably the intent

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Posted on 01-26-11 04:19:45 PM (last edited by Orlandu at 01-26-11 01:25 PM)

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	I'm guessing that's where Us Weekly typically goes on their shelves. With covers such as: Its understandable. I doubt this was done just for that week's issue. Everyone jumps to conclusions. ____________________

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Posted on 01-26-11 08:49:47 PM (last edited by Shadic at 01-26-11 05:50 PM)

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I spoke with Harps Corporate Executive Assistant Marty Yarborough, who told me that every Harps store is equipped with these shields and that they get put up whenever customers complain about the content of a magazine cover. She said the word from the store about this particular cover was that “several” customers had complained, so the shield went up. She also confirmed that these shields are utilized on a store-by-store basis, so the magazine would not have been covered up at any of the other Harps locations, unless customers complained there as well. She also told me that the usage of the shield on this particular cover is “in no way our opinion on this issue.” She quickly added, ”we do not have an opinion on this issue.”

Ta-da. It's not the bigotry of the company, it's the bigotry of the consumers! :specialed:

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Posted on 01-26-11 10:58:17 PM

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A store should just say "fuck you, bigots" and not shield this ZOMG OFFENSIVE cover anyway.

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Posted on 01-26-11 11:44:26 PM

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Solution: Complain about socially conservative publications, get their 'offensive' content shielded from impressionable young viewers.

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Posted on 01-27-11 01:14:36 AM (last edited by Skreeny at 01-26-11 10:16 PM)

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Originally posted by Gabu
A store should just say "fuck you, bigots" and not shield this ZOMG OFFENSIVE cover anyway.

Money talks, especially when the official opinion is "we have no opinion". The question just becomes "which group is more likely to get offended into not buying here?", and considering the noise from that side of the aisle (3 words: War on Christmas), it's unfortunately likely to be them.

That said,

Originally posted by Metal_Man88
Solution: Complain about socially conservative publications, get their 'offensive' content shielded from impressionable young viewers.

This.

(Granted, then they'll just respond with zOMGTEHPERSECUTION, but... ehh. I have trouble pitying a majority for not being able to forcibly tell minorities that they ~~suck~~ ~~shouldn't exist~~ ~~aren't american~~ are minorities.)

EDIT: Derp conflation. Majority in this case being "nominally christian and straight" (if you don't look too closely at how "christian" is defined, otherwise you run into issues with catholic/methodist/baptist/pentacostal/mormon/lutheran/etc), not people who use religion to beat people down (I hope).

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Posted on 02-06-11 01:16:02 AM

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It's the South. I'm not surprised at any ridiculous act of censorship they do. I don't like it, but I'm not surprised one bit by it.

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