But Bush Toilet Art is OK
Last I checked, the First Amendment applied to corporations (who are, after all, persons under the law).
Actually I exaggerate by calling this a First Amendment issue. Yes, the baby seal clubbers have a First Amendment right to print the shirts, and the Communists have the right to beg them to stop.
The Anti-Defamation League has asked retailer Urban Outfitters to stop selling a T-shirt that reads: "New Mexico, Cleaner than Regular Mexico."
"This is saying that the country of Mexico is a dirty place," said Barry Morrison, regional director of the civil rights group. "Dirty can be interpreted figuratively and literally."...
The retailer, which targets 18- to 30-year-olds, has run into similar controversy before.
Two years ago, it stopped selling a game called "Ghettopoly" after protests by black civil rights leaders. Last year, it halted sales of a T-shirt that read "Everyone Loves A Jewish Girl," surrounded by dollar signs, after the Anti-Defamation League objected.
A "Voting is for Old People" T-shirt angered pro-voting groups....
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