Noose and Confederate Flag Halloween Display Wasn't Very Funny


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Noose and Confederate Flag Halloween Display Wasn't Very Funny
11.03.08 (1:03 pm)   [edit]
A Halloween display setup by a group of students at California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly) in San Luis Obispo included a confederate flag and a noose. A sign displaying derogatory language toward blacks, gays and hippies added the final touches to what some would consider a completely tacky Halloween display.

It's always been my opinion that people use Halloween as an excuse to step outside culturally accepted norms. Halloween costumes help people live out deep-rooted desires they usually have to suppress. How many typically-conservative women did you see wear dirty whore costumes this weekend? How many hairy, macho, homophobic men did you see wearing a dress? My point exactly. It's safe to step outside your self-imposed box when you can mask it with humor and claim it was all about having a good time: "My slutty whore costume was hilarious! I had so much fun!"

Citing free-speech rights, the university said it won't punish the students; however, horticulture and crop science department head John Peterson said "the students have issued a written apology and acknowledge that they were wrong in allowing a noose and a Confederate flag to hang from the home."

Bullshit. Those kids are only sorry they underestimated their fellow classmates. They assumed no one would care about their racist and homophobic Halloween display. The worst punishment for these guys is knowing their fellow classmates think they're a bunch of asswipes. Cal Poly students gathered to protest the display and make it clear that not everyone on campus is a racist homophobe.

(HT: Unigo)

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