Kenneth Cole and Our Intelligent Designs
As if we didn’t already have presidents, mayors, congress members, lobbyists, media members, ex- and current schools chancellors, district leaders, and celebrities come for the heads of teachers under the guise of “student rights,” Kenneth Cole, clothing designer by day, has decided to throw his expensive threads into the discussion with a salacious billboard (removed thanks to the likes of Sabrina Stevens Shupe and others) and a multimedia dedication to this issue on WhereDoYouStand.com (taken down and seemingly scrubbed off the website). Via Kenneth Cole’s Twitter account, his people wrote that they had “misrepresented the issue” and would take it down as soon as possible.
Too bad I’m still going to remember it happened.
I don’t have a problem with people who want to provoke a conversation with scandalous questions. Where my problem lies is in the way that Cole’s public relations folk framed the question. In stating the question as