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Lego Jabba's Palace Offends Muslim Community; Lego Ceases Production
Buy your set today, because it'll cost a small fortune a year from now.
This thread is devoted to collecting and discussing apparently offensive items.
Is the complaint about the Lego set legit, or hypersensitive political correctness at its best?
I'm a Western rational secularist, so I don't see it at all. Personally, I think it's more a matter of hypersensitive activists insecure in their own standing, likely looking, deliberately, for offense in and from everything around them.
What do you think?
According to LEGO, the complaints were not a factor in the set's discontinuation, as it was scheduled from the get-go to be discontinued in 2013. I would be surprised if this wasn't the truth. A fringe complaint from a small group in Turkey doesn't strike me as the sort of thing to spur a company as large as LEGO to discontinue such an obviously benign product.
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That's good news (I swear that article addendum wasn't there when I posted the link this morning) and lines up with how they usually execute product runs--retiring sets every couple years or sooner.
Unfortunately, a small but very vocal group has stolen the truth, disassembled it, and inveigled a too-willing public to support their agenda, even if that support is a bit indirect.
It's odd to me on another count--Star Wars has historically been viewed as so universally popular in part due to its amalgamation of worldwide cultures.
If anyone sees the offense, I'm very open to reading the why and wherefore. While I'm a bit incredulous, I'm also curious.
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It doesn't matter. At all. Whatever you write or say, someone can claim you are being offensive for something you did say, something someone else MAY be offended by, or for something you did NOT say. There is no "safe zone" offered by "being PC", and so more and more people are feeling it is no longer relevant. If everything brings hysterical criticism, why worry about it? I can't say that's wrong, really.
I don't really see anything directly offensive.
Then again, I'm a Catholic from Chile, so perhaps there is something I'm missing or interpreting in a different manner. I'd need further information regarding the viewpoints of those who complained in order to better gauge the situation.
Perhaps the guys who complained had never seen Star Wars before and, with how sensitive things are right now, thought the figurines were a mockery on their culture.
After all, from seeing the whole ordeal with the islamic cartoons and the burning of qur'ans of the past two years, I'm sure some muslim communities might be interpreting things like these with a negative predisposition.
Anyone who collects action figures, Logo sets or any kind of collectibles knows they dont produce and sell them forever.
The current wave of toys eventually goes out of production and new ones take their place.
The funniest part of the article is how when Jabbas Palace finally stoped being produced this Muslim group declared victory like it was them who stopped this Lego set from being made.
Everything is offensive, just look at peoples reaction to damn near every word spoken here that is one speck less than PC
There's a difference between "offensive" and "laughable".