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Join Date: Sep 2007
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Not to get PARFy about it, but the tag on these include something of historical significance, something that the company recently made a statement about, saying something like: "We always strive to be an inclusive company, but sometimes in our history we didn't always succeed."
The inside label reads: “The only kind made by white labor,” which dates the pair to the late 1800s, in reference to the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, which forbid Chinese workers from the US. The slogan was dropped in the 1890s, said The Wall Street Journal.
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