Is a Confederate uniform an inappropriate halloween costume?

Started by Faeelin, September 06, 2009, 11:08:47 PM

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Savonarola

Quote from: Faeelin on October 16, 2009, 12:56:24 PM
Quote from: Caliga on October 16, 2009, 12:52:36 PM
You don't need to be black.  Just go in blackface.  Nobody will be offended :)
Listen, I have no desire to get my offer for the summer revoked.

It's cool; blackface is now tres chic since Lara Stone appeared in French Vogue:



In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace—and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock

Faeelin

Incidentally, I can't help but feel most people would find a Joseph Stalin costume less offensive, despite the fact he killed millions of people. Am I right?

(I want to reenact the Communist Party T-Shirt).

Caliga

Quote from: Faeelin on October 16, 2009, 02:05:11 PM
Incidentally, I can't help but feel most people would find a Joseph Stalin costume less offensive, despite the fact he killed millions of people. Am I right?

(I want to reenact the Communist Party T-Shirt).
Yes.  He was a sadistic killer, but by God, he was OUR sadistic killer! :smoke:
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Faeelin

Quote from: Caliga on October 16, 2009, 02:09:15 PM
Quote from: Faeelin on October 16, 2009, 02:05:11 PM
Incidentally, I can't help but feel most people would find a Joseph Stalin costume less offensive, despite the fact he killed millions of people. Am I right?

(I want to reenact the Communist Party T-Shirt).
Yes.  He was a sadistic killer, but by God, he was OUR sadistic killer! :smoke:



I have gotten enough people to do this, so huzzah.

Maximus

Quote from: Faeelin on October 16, 2009, 12:07:34 PM
Within the EU, under Palpatine's command, there was:

1) Prophets of the Dark Side
2) the Inquisitorius
3)  the Emperor's Hands
4) Palpatine's  Dark Side Elite
I never knew that Palpatine was in command of the EU. That explains so much.

Faeelin

Quote from: Maximus on October 16, 2009, 02:41:45 PM

I never knew that Palpatine was in command of the EU. That explains so much.

It's gone downhill since Thrawn refused to sign the Treaty of Brussels.

Ideologue

Quote from: Faeelin on October 16, 2009, 02:33:32 PM
Quote from: Caliga on October 16, 2009, 02:09:15 PM
Quote from: Faeelin on October 16, 2009, 02:05:11 PM
Incidentally, I can't help but feel most people would find a Joseph Stalin costume less offensive, despite the fact he killed millions of people. Am I right?

(I want to reenact the Communist Party T-Shirt).
Yes.  He was a sadistic killer, but by God, he was OUR sadistic killer! :smoke:



I have gotten enough people to do this, so huzzah.

Now that's pretty cool.
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garbon

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DontSayBanana

Quote from: garbon on October 17, 2009, 12:22:16 AM
Pool boy in the Hamptons.

And currently working for pharm, too... are you slowly turning into this guy?

Experience bij!

stjaba

Quote from: Caliga on October 16, 2009, 01:03:04 PM
Quote from: Faeelin on October 16, 2009, 12:56:24 PM
Listen, I have no desire to get my offer for the summer revoked.
What's your offer for the summer?  :huh:

In law school, students interview in the fall of the 2nd year for firm jobs for the following summer. You get your offers in the fall, work in the summer, and if they like you, you will have a job after your third year.

garbon

Quote from: DontSayBanana on October 17, 2009, 08:00:58 AM

And currently working for pharm, too... are you slowly turning into this guy?


I'm not Faeelin and I have no idea what that is an image of.
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

DontSayBanana

Quote from: garbon on October 17, 2009, 12:21:35 PM
I'm not Faeelin and I have no idea what that is an image of.

Evan Williams, from Royal Pains.  Actually, in retrospect, it was a pretty flimsy potshot. :(
Experience bij!

Alatriste

Quote from: Faeelin on October 16, 2009, 02:05:11 PM
Incidentally, I can't help but feel most people would find a Joseph Stalin costume less offensive, despite the fact he killed millions of people. Am I right?

(I want to reenact the Communist Party T-Shirt).

Well, I for one can't accept the implied equivalence Abe Lincoln = Addi Hitler. For Christ's sake, Old Abe was a goddamn' lawyer!  :P

If you ask that seriously, I guess the proper comparison would be a Stalin costume in Russia, and I bet there you would find both Stalin fanboys and people that remember all too well that NKVD killed their grandfathers, stole their cows and literally burned their bible.

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