From: "myk zeitlin" <myk-AT-zeitlin.freeserve.co.uk>
Subject: AUT: Re: Re: Re: FW: Fwd: Biased comments by Tommy Hilfiger on "Oprah"
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 04:55:53 +0100


Wasn't there also the head of Newcastle Football Club who referred to their
female fans as "dogs" and said they's wear whatever crap was produced with
the Newcastle logo.
I think there is a difference between suggesting that people who buy the
crap are stupid and saying its too good for a particular group.

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From: Paul Bowman <paulbowman-AT-totalise.co.uk>
To: <aut-op-sy-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu>
Sent: Friday, July 28, 2000 1:02 AM
Subject: AUT: Re: Re: FW: Fwd: Biased comments by Tommy Hilfiger on "Oprah"


> > I really hate to stick up for Mr. Hilfiger (he needs MY help?) but this
is
> > an urban legend which has been denied many times and yet keeps coming
> > back. Besides everything else, would someone like Hilfiger ever say
> > something like this on Oprah? I mean come on. Even Eminem doesn't admit
he
> > is misogynist. What I want is some proof that any famous American
> > capitalist said he hates the people who buy his product.
> > terry
>
> I don't know about US examples. In Britain where the supersession of older
> class attitudes by modern capitalist values is perhaps less advanced among
> certain sections of the ruling class, there was such an example in the
late
> 80s. Gerard Ratner, the CE and main shareholder of a nationwide chain of
> "value" jewelry shops was famously reported at an after dinner speach as
> saying he would never dare buy any of his girlfriends jewelry from his
chain
> (Ratner's) as everbody knew they sold mostly "absolute rubbish". Despite
> desparate attempts at damage limitation including jettisoning Ratner
> himself, and a name change the chain nearly went under (I belive it
survives
> today as Hill Samuels, although it doesn't do much jewelry these days). It
> wasn't so much that people who used to shop at Ratner's didn't know they
> were cheap mass production jewellers, more their anger at the man's
> arrogance and cheek.
>
>
>
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