I think it is pretty obvious the students are trying to warn us of a terrorist plot by the rulers of their school. Note that in the diagram the school mascot is about to destroy the towers. Isn’t it possible that the diagram was discovered by the students, and printing it on shirts was the only way they could get the information out while under the constant observation of the terrorists?
Of course the president of the “Edsel Ford Parent Teacher Student Association” (a codename for a terrorist cell if I ever heard one) is going to say it didn’t mean anything.
Meanwhile, these students have mysteriously vanished. All I know is, when giant birds start attacking, don’t say nobody warned you.
I’m not sure which “some dopers” you’re referring to. I fully believe that they’re talking about themselves, the class of 2011. I also believe that they’re talking about themselves by referring to 9/11. It is possible for an image to have multiple layers of meaning, after all.
I’m absolutely willing to accept that it was meant completely innocently, but ‘innocent’ doesn’t automatically mean ‘not referring to 9/11’.
Then the design is incompetent all around since the Twin Towers they’re identifying with were brought down.
I don’t believe the kids who did this identify with the 9/11 hijackers, but this shirt **can **be interpreted that way. I don’t believe they put this much thought (if they put any thought at all) into this design. But they must’ve known it would be offensive. That’s what they were really going for.
Not at all. There were at least a dozen Australian posters who participated in that thread, and none of them had any clue what the black people/fried chicken thing was about, except the OP, who I’m guessing only knew about it because he heard about the brouhaha.
There are hardly any black people in Australia (>.5%), for one thing, unless you count Aborigines.
