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I would have thought that only a KKK member would be offended by a KKK costume. Like, the point is to make fun of the KKK, no?

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even so, it's still a terrible idea to wear something like that to school. I mean, the school will obviously assume the worst, and many people will find it offensive....

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Yeah I'm the wrong one to speak on this subject. I don't think that rules should be made by stupid people, and I think it takes a good deal of stupidity to be offended by any costume.

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I disagree with this. It's basically saying you have to be dumb to be offended at all more or less, because if you think being offended by a measly "costume" is stupid, then I think you would have to expand that to words as well since on the surface they're just as harmless.

In general I think people do get offended too easily, like when a school is forced to not use the word Christmas and instead replace it with the word holiday or something because some parents decide to make a big deal over semantics.

What I don't like about this is that it's something that is obviously going to cause controversy and piss people off, and nothing good can come from it, only bad. It may not offend us typical white males, but that doesn't mean everybody else should feel that way. If I was black, I probably would be offended by something like that. Likewise, I'd be offended if somebody called me the N word in a clear derogatory manner. Anyways, people that abuse the freedom to say and do what they want tend to piss me off. A good example was the Phelps church that had all those ridiculous anti-homosexual picket signs and doing stuff like protesting at the funerals of fallen U.S. soliders, saying that they deserved to die and a whole bunch of insane things. I was extremely offended and shocked after watching this documentary on these people. Do you think it's "stupid" to be offended by that or get upset over it? They didn't use anything but words, after all.

Doing things that are so obviously in bad taste that can only be hurtful and cause controversy is wrong, IMO. Freedom of speech blah blah, stop being a [censored] douche for the hell of it, period.