Yea it does.
When you participate in historical reenactments, you dont think that some group of thinned-skinned morons would make the leap to think that you ACTUALLY ARE THE ROLE YOU ARE PLAYING!
Would it had made people feel better if he was in a American Revolution reenactment in a British Uniform?
If you run around afraid of a camera, then you already lost.
If you run around afraid of a camera, then you already lost.
Like it or not, we live in a country that has PC attitudes and perception is often more important than reality. Is it fair? Not always. Does it suck? Yeah. But it is what it is. Smart people deal with it; dumb ones get burned.