Posted on 06/17/2019 7:13:13 PM PDT by marshmallow
Kmart has come under fire after certain religious words including “Jesus,” “church,” and “Bible” were banned at photo printing kiosks while the words “mosque,” “Islam,” and “Koran” were not.
While attempting to print photographs for a church group, Australian Kmart customers Anthony Dorsett and his wife, Marelynda, found that certain Christian-related words — including “God,” “church,” “Jesus,” “Jewish” and “Bible” — were deemed to be profanity and replaced by asterisks, The Daily Telegraph reports. However, “mosque,” “Islam” and “Koran” were found to be acceptable.
Anthony Dorsett told the news publication that his wife was “offended” and she “thought it was disgusting.”
“She is not a snowflake or anything, she doesn’t get offended by much but this offended her,” he said.
Amid backlash, Kmart issued a statement saying that a software error at the Kodak kiosks had led to “offensive” words being replaced and was not specific to Christianity.
“This is a system error and it will be updated overnight. It in no way reflects our views as a business,” the spokesman told The Daily Telegraph.
(Excerpt) Read more at christianpost.com ...
Christians don’t react with violence.
Liberals are cowards.
Can anyone remember Dustin Hoffman’s famous line from Rainman?
K-mart is still in business?
Who knew?
The Christian Post is not making a good analogy here. Words like Bible, church and Jesus are holy religious terms.
Islam and the Koran are pseudo-religious. They speak more to a theocratic type of autocracy that is not holy but profane.
Gosh wonder why Sears is flushing itself down the toilet.
“This is a system error and it will be updated overnight. It in no way reflects our views as a business,”
Somehow I don’t believe that...
Ah, a human 'system' got caught.
Western countries are falling to the warring, terrorist, political cult of Islam.
Funny how Islam is never impacted by these anti-Christ computer programmers.
A great grandson of SS Kresge attended my alma mater. During founders week in 1976, a $250,000. organ had been rented for the convocations. The father of that student told the president to keep the organ at the school for student studies. He wrote the check for the organ that night.
“This is a system error”
Sure.
Bullshiite it was just an error.
Error my ass. They pushing how far they can go
There is a system error in the human race. It’s called sin and it seems to be multiplying at a rate which will cause a complete system collapse. Maranatha
Yeah, I thought the fat lady had stuck a fork in ‘em a long time ago
What I expect to happen if something like that is encountered: Go somewhere else, maybe also let others know so they too can go somewhere else.
What probably will happen: Tempest in a teapot followed by the words being unbanned for a week, followed by few even knowing.
As a matter of fact, I can remember several of Dustin Hoffman's famous lines from Rainman.
Which one, specifically, are you referencing?
Regards,
It was in Australia. I think the majority of US stores are gone though.
Not around my house they ain’t.
CC
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