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"I'm going to build a cotton farm with nooses........."
I'm not sure how this one size fits all troll rhetoric fits into a Halloween display, but okay. Whatever.
Maybe we should just start a committee that goes from house to house telling people what they can and can't display lest they offend the snowflakes? I know, lets just sanitize the whole holiday and make it 100% politically correct.
I had a black friend that went to a Halloween party dressed as the KKK. Politically correct or hysterically funny? (I'm in the hysterically funny crowd.)
I'm glad Illinois wasn't on that lynching list. I made a silhouette of a hang man with my husbands profile, and oh yeah, it's going in the window this year. Is it a political statement? Some may say yes, some may say no. Either way there are days when it seems perfectly reasonable to me. If you don't like it? Walk the other way. I'll put a sign on my front lawn warning viewers that there may be graphics that sensitive viewers may want to avoid. Yikes, people need to get over themselves and their self righteous importance.
i have an idea to not offend anyone, from now on we all live in small grey apartments, drive mid sized grey sedans, wear grey clothing, read the same book, listen to the same music, all government approved of course, eliminate ALL holidays, eliminate all parties, social events, sports, etc.
we all get to go to work, do our jobs, collect our pay, and go home. we can only shop at government approved stores, buy only government approved items, etc.
and we also only talk using government approved speech. that should end peoples feeling getting hurt because of something stupid like celebrating halloween.
Not a day goes by that African Americans aren't "outraged" by something.
Yet they seem totally oblivious to the daily shootings and other crimes, like those in Atlanta where that story is from, in their own communities.
Honestly this could be said about all of us Americans. We are outraged by nonsensical things like kneeling during the National Anthem or Tweets from Trump yet we don't seemed very concerned about real problems like our astronomically high murder rate for example or the growing disparity in wealth between social classes.
Can one not be concerned about both? I don't want to see realistic, life size depictions of thugs shooting other people, complete with blood pools and splatters, either.
They can be concerned about both...but I'm wondering why any amount of people larger than an extreme and inconsequential minority would experience noticeable trauma from seeing the sorts of Halloween decorations in the article.
The way I see it, at most this is an issue of whether or not Halloween goriness is appropriate and it doesn't have anything to do with lynching. I would argue, though, that without at least some Halloween goriness, I don't know what the point of Halloween is.
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Why would you do that?
I don't really find it offensive because it's Halloween. However, when you have people depicting black people hanging & you know damn well what those people are up to then yeah, I have a problem with it.
I looked at the picture - saw the flannel plaid shirt and immediately thought cowboy - you know like Clint Eastwood's Hang Em High - people have got to quit reading the worst into every little thing.
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Honestly this could be said about all of us Americans. We are outraged by nonsensical things like kneeling during the National Anthem or Tweets from Trump yet we don't seemed very concerned about real problems like our astronomically high murder rate for example or the growing disparity in wealth between social classes.
Those nonsensical things are being pushed and fueled by the media. Should we talk about wealth disparity - since all those in office are set for life - no matter the party - should the media push that angle - it would also reflect poorly on the Democrats and we don't want to do that.
I wonder what the response would be if it was a line of lifelike cats and dogs hanging from the tree?
I wonder how much coverage one would get on conservative news if someone dressed up like a member of ISIS and carried a prop severed head. I can already see Tucker Carlson losing his ****. Liberals have sided with ISIS and are demanding the heads of good conservatives everywhere.
Damn, I don't have a tree to lynch fake animals on, but I could definitely put that costume together for Halloween.
Aside from the politics, I hate hanging figures at Halloween. Neighbors had a son who hanged himself in their garage and the father found him. Every time I pass a yard display with a hanging fake body I cringe thinking about how the father must feel when he passes by.
I love Halloween but think public displays should be PG-13 in terms of horror. Leave the really gory stuff to Haunted Houses that people pay to go through.
You def brought up a good point there about Halloween stuff needs to be somewhat tame.
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