The Hillary Clinton campaign released revised versions of four campaign pins that had been quickly withdrawn from sale late last week apparently due to inadvertent offensive messages. As THE WEEKLY STANDARD reported Friday, Clinton’s online store introduced a collection of pins created by forty-five artist and graphic designers. However, four of the five pins in the set designed by Polish artist Agniezka Gasparska disappeared shortly after the collection was first posted.
The four pins, all in the same format, alluded to the possibility that Hillary Clinton could soon be the first female president in U.S. history. For example, one pin, referring to the artist’s home country, offered the chiding message, “Even Poland has one.”
Three other countries were targets of the condescending text on separate pins: Jamaica, South Korea, and Liberia. (A fifth pin was different altogether.) The set was presented on the website as a group:
The revised wording is not the only change. Poland and Jamaica were dropped and replaced with larger, more powerful countries, Germany and the United Kingdom. Here are the two sets pictured side by side:
Neither the Clinton campaign nor Agniezka Gasparska have responded to requests for comment.
