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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: Revolution on October 20, 2011, 08:26:42 PM
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The Northerner (1000+ posts) Thu Oct-20-11 08:24 PM
Original message
Halloween Decoration Removed From Brooklyn Home After Being Called Racist
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – A Halloween display at a home in Brooklyn has been taken down after some called it a symbol of racism.
A scarecrow painted to have dark skin was hanging by a rope from a tree in front of a home in Kensington.
Some neighbors say the homeowner gets in the spirit of Halloween every year and believe he meant no harm by the display.
But one councilman argued it was reminiscent of a lynching.
Read more: http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2011/10/20/halloween-decora...
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Abin Sur (351 posts) Thu Oct-20-11 08:35 PM
Response to Original message
1. "Police settled the dispute by removing the scarecrow figure from the tree."
Given that this is private property, what business do the police have forcing someone to take down a Halloween decoration?
Uh-oh.
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Could be worse he could have set up a nativity scene for winter holiday. :-)
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Didn't somebody have a lynched Sarah Palin a couple of Halloween's ago? Kind of remember the DUmmies being okay with that.
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Devil_Fish (1000+ posts) Thu Oct-20-11 08:38 PM
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2. Please. One of these things does not belong, which one could it be?
Followed by several photos.
One of which shows a scarecrow hanging from a tree.
Beartracks (1000+ posts) Thu Oct-20-11 09:22 PM
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4. The one with the birds on his head.
Clearly he's not scaring any crows at all.
:rotf: No rejoinder as yet.
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I guess you can't make any "ghosts" out of sheets and put them in the yard, either. Someone might think they look like the Klan.
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I guess you can't make any "ghosts" out of sheets and put them in the yard, either. Someone might think they look like the Klan.
Nah.
JJackson would demand every fourth sheet be black. :fuelfire:
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The DUchebags will always be for First Amendment rights...as long as they agree with it.
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Any scarecrow is basically racist. Let's break it down. You have the word "scare" which means to cause great fear or nervousness. Then you have the word "crow" which refers to a bird that is black. Great fear + black = racist.
For the record, I do NOT believe that a scarecrow is basically racist. The above was my attempt at placing myself in a DUmmie state of mind. An attempt to see things through the eyes of the primitives.
I'll let you guys decided if I reached full DUmmification.
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Flippy, do you know any fictional spirit guide Scarecrows? You could ask them if they think it is racist.
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Didn't somebody have a lynched Sarah Palin a couple of Halloween's ago? Kind of remember the DUmmies being okay with that.
Indeed somebody did, and indeed the DUmmies not only were okay with it, they portrayed everyone who expressed concern over the Palin effigy as being evil bigots crushing free speech rights.
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Didn't somebody have a lynched Sarah Palin a couple of Halloween's ago? Kind of remember the DUmmies being okay with that.
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(http://photos.smugmug.com/photos/1154688200_ydY98-O.jpg)
Let me guess Homosexuals right? What do I win?
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Let me guess Homosexuals right? What do I win?
It's obvious you already had the keen power of observation, so I'm stymied as to anything else you could "win" from that accurate observation.
One word for the Primitives that will be said countless times over for as long as this place exists: Hypocrites.
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It's obvious you already had the keen power of observation, so I'm stymied as to anything else you could "win" from that accurate observation.
One word for the Primitives that will be said countless times over for as long as this place exists: Hypocrites.
I'll do my Kreskin imitation one more time, lovely bars on the windows so I'll say Blue city dwellers.