Friday, October 25, 2019



Blackface pumpkins!



In a bold move which will forever remove from mankind the stain of racism -- and probably also cure poverty, disease, and war -- home retailer Bed Bath & Beyond has pulled certain jack-o'-lanterns off its store shelves. Reports don't make it quite clear whether the move was nationwide or just at the one particular location, but your Friendly Neighborhood VodkaPundit was unable to find them for sale on the company's website.

See, these particular jack-o'-lanterns are painted black on the outside, in order to better contrast and show off a very cool orange glow from the inside when lit. And since we live in a deeply stupid age, someone decided that the glowing fake pumpkin carvings must be racist. This is an easy mistake to make if you happen to be brain damaged, or are a perennially pissed-off progressive permanently on the lookout for something to be peeved about. But I repeat myself.

The whole ball of stupid got rolling in Nyack, New York, where someone from a local law firm picked up a few of the nasty-evil-vile-racist-hater plastic pumpkins for office Halloween decorations. Local Westchester News 12 reported that "the jack-o'-lanterns upset some community members," and so the law firm of Feerick, Nugent, MacCartney got rid of them. Then, following a vital news investigation into this horrific act of pure ... [checks notes] holiday charm... Bed Bath & Beyond decided to stop selling them.

News 12 also reports, "Though they have been removed, both attorneys say they wonder why the decorations didn’t raise flags at Bed Bath & Beyond." I dunno, because there's nothing possibly racist about pretend light-up gourds?

Local NAACP Director Wilbur Aldridge, apparently never one to let a crisis go to waste, claimed that the brightly lit pumpkins showed an "extreme lack of sensitivity." To what, law firms that didn't try and cheer up the place during the depths of autumn?

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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

All of this "politically correct" and "racist" bull is way over the top. I'm 75 and probably won't be around to see much more of this type of capitulation to the permanently offended, but I worry about what kind of world my kids and grandkids are facing.

AIB/44

Anonymous said...

To be fair, if one goes to the news station site that first reported on the issue, the pumpkins shown there are not the same ones that are shown on the PJ Media site or the graphic associated with this post.

http://westchester.news12.com/story/41211141/bed-bath-and-beyond-pulls-black-jackolanterns-after-complaints-in-nyack

When you look at them, you can somewhat see a blackface simiilarity.

The lawyers with the items on their porch removed them "once they found out about it" which means that complaint took the long way to get to them rather than some one who was offended walking into their office and saying something.

That's a problem as well as people would rather post on social media than deal with issues directly and professionally.



Anonymous said...

This is an easy mistake to make if you happen to be brain damaged, or are a perennially pissed-off progressive permanently on the lookout for something to be peeved about. But I repeat myself.

You have got that right Jon !