Prince Harry the Nazi

[transplant99]

Originally posted by speeds@Jan 14 2005, 12:09 PM
What is the big deal?

He wore a costume to a costume party. I suppose if you dressup like the Devil on Halloween that means you hate God and Jesus and want to be a part of Satan's minion as well?

Is the devil a real thing?? Who knows...pure speculation.

The holocaust happened.

Ask a jew "what's the big deal". They find the swastika extremely offensive....for good reason.

[speeds]

Originally posted by transplant99@Jan 14 2005, 04:19 PM

Is the devil a real thing?? Who knows...pure speculation.

The holocaust happened.

Ask a jew "what's the big deal". They find the swastika extremely offensive....for good reason.

It seems to me any time someone makes any kind of reference, at all, to the Nazi's it's perceived as though they are anti-semetic.

I personally believe it's just another hysterical overreaction in a PC world.

Yes, the Nazi's aren't cool, I'm sure Harry doesn't really emulate them. I don't find dressing up as a Nazi to a costume party to be a horribly offensive thing. Bad taste, sure, I wouldn't do it, probably, but at the end of the day, to me, a costume at a costume party is just that.

[HelloHockeyFans]

This is just my personal opinion, but I don't see any instance where sporting a swastika would be okay.

I don't care if it's a costume party, and I don't care if it's Halloween. The swastika represented a group which attempted to rid the world of an entire race of people.

[TheyCallMeBruce]

Originally posted by speeds+Jan 14 2005, 04:30 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (speeds @ Jan 14 2005, 04:30 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-transplant99@Jan 14 2005, 04:19 PM

Is the devil a real thing?? Who knows...pure speculation.

The holocaust happened.

Ask a jew "what's the big deal". They find the swastika extremely offensive....for good reason.

It seems to me any time someone makes any kind of reference, at all, to the Nazi's it's perceived as though they are anti-semetic.

I personally believe it's just another hysterical overreaction in a PC world.

Yes, the Nazi's aren't cool, I'm sure Harry doesn't really emulate them. I don't find dressing up as a Nazi to a costume party to be a horribly offensive thing. Bad taste, sure, I wouldn't do it, probably, but at the end of the day, to me, a costume at a costume party is just that. [/b][/quote]
Gee, I wonder if you'll feel the same way if you were a Jewish person living in Poland in the 1930s.

[speeds]

Originally posted by TheyCallMeBruce+Jan 14 2005, 05:39 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (TheyCallMeBruce @ Jan 14 2005, 05:39 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>

It seems to me any time someone makes any kind of reference, at all, to the Nazi's it's perceived as though they are anti-semetic.

I personally believe it's just another hysterical overreaction in a PC world.

Yes, the Nazi's aren't cool, I'm sure Harry doesn't really emulate them. I don't find dressing up as a Nazi to a costume party to be a horribly offensive thing. Bad taste, sure, I wouldn't do it, probably, but at the end of the day, to me, a costume at a costume party is just that.

Gee, I wonder if you'll feel the same way if you were a Jewish person living in Poland in the 1930s. [/b][/quote]
Tons of bads things have happened in the course of human history, is any mention of something bad ever done by humans to one another supposed to be taboo because it might offend someone?

It's not like Harry wearing the outfit is an implicit endorsement of what the Nazi's stood for, no more than me dressing up as a Devil for a costume party is an endorsement of Satan and whatever he stands for.

[moon]

He is wearing a costume at a costume party.

IF someone is wearing a vampire costume I don;t assume that he is going to try and drink my blood.

People are way overreacting to this.

I have no problem at all with Prince Harry having some fun and wearing whatever he wants at a costume party.

[Agamemnon]

Originally posted by moon@Jan 14 2005, 06:38 PM
He is wearing a costume at a costume party.

IF someone is wearing a vampire costume I don;t assume that he is going to try and drink my blood.

People are way overreacting to this.

I have no problem at all with Prince Harry having some fun and wearing whatever he wants at a costume party.

No one has ever been hurt by vampires. Vampires didn't cruise through a continent, exterminating everyone of a specific race or physical characteristic.

If you think vampires are as socially unacceptable as Nazis, you don't have much respect for history (or reality).

[TheyCallMeBruce]

It's not a matter of whether this is a costume or not. I think we all agree it is, but I think we are failing to see the side of the survivors that had to endure such a regime. My grandfather still has nightmares that he cannot shake of the atrocities the Japanese did to this home town in WW2. It's not like he didn't get psychological help either, but the fact remains, he can't and won't associate himself with a japanese person.

It's easy for us (myself included) to tell people to "get over" it. We weren't there. Lord knows I've been guilty many times for telling people to "suck it up." But the simple fact remains is that they cannot, no matter how much therapy they go through.