Originally Posted by roachboy

i agree with abaya for the most part.

i dont see the basis for any--any---of the "toughen up" or "harden the fuck up" comments to the thread.

ustwo's comments are, of course, off the edge somewhere....

it is apparently something of a badge of honor in rightwing land, the ability to be a clod (laughing at people who see racism as a problem? how does that work?) and be jolly about being a clod at the same time.

its like chewing gum and waving at a passing zeppelin, i suppose.

"hullo there zeppelin. i am doing two things at once."

because of course what matters in a complex world is what you are doing. and it is obvious that any given group of zeppelin passengers only books their flight so they can check out what you are doing from the air.

so what really matters about this situation in ct is:

how does it effect me?
will it disrupt my costume choices?
does it mean i cant trick or treat in black face?
does it mean that i cant make a faux-lynching part of my "scary" household decorations?

well, if this sort of thing causes you to be at all self-conscious about halloween, then the conclusion is obvious: you are the ones really affected by all this. *you* are the real victims--and the history of racism in america and the responses that folk might have to it matter only to the extent that they fuck with your enjoyment of halloween.

from such enlightened viewpoints come threads like this.

way to go.