White

Who would have thought back in 2007 when HM the King prophetically sparked a new fashion craze by wearing colorful blazers that colors would soon be at the center of it all. First there was the pink shirt craze.

Factories couldn’t produce enough pink shirts. Then the king was seen alternately wearing green and blue jackets – sellers started stockpiling them, even though they were caught off guard by the new colors. Pink was not yet sold out.

On the political front, after facing the yellows’ craze and the reds’ rebellion we got a short taste of the blue shirts – only to learn that now there are also the white shirts who just launched the campaign “Stop Hurting Thailand.”

“Thousands of professional media organisations, government agencies, the military, civic groups and business people have joined the “Stop hurting Thailand” campaign,” reports the Bangkok Post, “urging political groups to end bickering that is causing social divisions.”

“Bangkok Bank president Chartsiri Sophonpanich joined the crowd when the parade reached his bank’s headquarters.” A campaign statement was read “asking all political groups to end their incitement of violent clashes between different groups and stop insulting the monarchy or claiming connections to the monarchy for political reasons.”

Looks like some opportunistic reds and yellows are in there already. Call me a white shirt.




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May 5, 2009 | Filed Under News & Media, Politics, Society 

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2 Responses to “White”

  1. JJ on May 5th, 2009 11.22 am

    Another “whitie” here!

    Maybe the end of the color spectrum is all that’s left. I have the feeling that even the yellow shirts couldn’t bring the same amount of people back to the streets if they’d call for amendment protests.

    White it shall be.

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