Posted on 11/02/2006 4:26:57 PM PST by Brian Mosely
University of Pennsylvania president Amy Gutmann threw her annual Halloween costume party at her home Tuesday night. Among the guests was Saad Saadi, who came dressed as a suicide bomber, complete with plastic dynamite strapped to his chest and a toy automatic rifle. Worse, Gutmann posed with Saadi!
An obvious question: would Gutmann have posed with a guest--or even allowed him into her house--if he'd dressed as Adolf Hitler or a Nazi SS officer? A KKK member?
But in modern liberal circles, posing as a Palestinian suicide bomber (see his kefiya) is just fine. After all, he mainly tries to kill innocent Jews.
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But I'm not suggesting that people can't dress as Hitler or Stalin or KKK, nor that some wouldn't find it offensive.
I'm offering an explaination why more people in 2006 would be shocked at seeing a terrorist bomber costume than a Hitler one. And that a Hitler costume today would generate less overall shock than it would in 1942.
It's human nature that time has an impact on people's emotional reaction. I'm Jewish and a big branch of my family tree was severed during the Holocaust. I'm quite sure many of my older relatives would react quite different to seeing a Hitler-costumed youth today than they would have in 1945 after seeing images of the Holocaust for the first time.
Point taken. As long as we don't take the leftist route.
Care should be taken when dressing up. But no one has a right to prohibit such costumes.
Duh. It is Halloween.
Are you telling us that rotted corpses crawling out of graves, blossd sucking vampires, Freddy Kruegers, mummy's, etc etc etc aren't dancing on graves?
My costume was a priapristic priest.
Offended?
Finally a voice of reason amongst the shrillness of personal offense!
It has gotten to the point where the only differences between extreme leftists and some so called freepers is what offends them.
Both groups seem spring loaded in the perpetually offended position!
I guess NOTHING is worth getting upset about, huh Mr. Moderate?
An Army Colonel once gave me some sage advice:
Don't sweat the small stuff...and it is all small stuff!
Too many so called freepers have resorted to acting like children because they saw that tantrums worked for Liberal causes.
Life is tough enough.
Life is really tough when you have thin skin.
Halloween costumes are not even big enough to be small stuff.
"I guess NOTHING is worth getting upset about, huh Mr. Moderate?"
Straw man alert! There are plenty of real things to get upset about in this country. A college kid wearing a stupid costume isn't one of them.
Oooh! Ooooh! I feel some Offence welling up inside me!
Oh..sorry, it was just a little gas from lunch.
Well, Amy Gutmann wrote me back and did say she was very offended by it also.....slow common sense is better than NO common sense!
It is a costume. I'll bet you wouldn't have liked my priapristic priest outfit this year. That, too, is just a costume.
Oh, she apologized...Feel better now? lol
She said she was OFFENDED.....and you read that as apology!! You should go back to public school.
It wouldn't have floated my boat.
LOL...She was appeasing you!
Don't worry, I'm not laughing with you!
Like I told someone else, life is tough enough on its own but is gets really tough if you have thin skin.
No, that was my alma mater, another Philly university -- La Salle.
I don't understand the hysterics over these picture. These people are ridiculing suicide bombers.
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