Tacky, offence and just urgh.
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Originally posted by Ascension
![Bibliotheque](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v232/korn0818/ATRL_Smilies_All/atrlers/biblio_zps23dff242.gif) So many things wrong with this. Would it be appropriate to don costumes mocking the Sandy Hook children because it's been over a year? Virginia Tech massacre victims because six years have passed? Or the Columbine kids since it's been 14 years? What exactly is the timing threshold for such a thing?
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There IS a such a threshold, though. It takes a long time, but it does exist. If someone chose to dress up on halloween as some beheaded historical figure, even if they were wrongly beheaded it would be "ok". Dressing up as a Nazi will probably become "ok" once anyone who knew anyone who experienced or was affected by WW2 has died. The slave trade is slightly different, because segregation carried on for a long time as a sort of "aftermath" of the slave trade,and racism still exists today, but say hypothetically over the next 50 years racism becomes more and more of a rarity, another 50 or 100 years after that it might be seen as perfectly acceptable to go as a slave and a slave driver or w/e. Sound's ludicrous, I know - but are we shocked and offended about a kid wearing a viking helmet? The people who raped and pillaged innocent men women and children across an entire island? Time heals everything.