Re: High Schooler Dresses up as KKK member for Halloween
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In this case, they're effectively preventing them from doing something that does absolutely no harm beyond making someone think that they're acting in poor taste. The next step would be to ban other costumes because they're too scary, which is kind of the whole point of halloween. Really scaring someone is worse for their psyche than offending their sensibilities.
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i see where you are coming from and agree to an extent. i'm not talking about whether they should have been sent home, although i'm not sorry that they were. i just don't see how you can say someone shouldn't be offended by the wearing of the costume given the history of the kkk. it isn't comparable to someone wearing a hockey mask and carrying a plastic knife.
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