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OK, OK, I'll be honest, there's gotta be some political reasons behind this.
Chad Michael Morisette, who lives in the house in West Hollywood, admitted that the display would be over-the-top --- except that it's Halloween.
He said:
"It should be seen as art, and as within the month of October. It's Halloween, it's time to be scary; it's time to be spooky."
Obviously, he's saying a McPalin presidency would be scary. At the same house, there's also a display of John McCain emerging from flames.
The photos are via CBS2.
Posted October 27th, 2008 by Michael Santo
Lovely. The double standard of left leaning politics. I disagree with Obama's politics and his presidency scares me. If I hung an effigy of Obama from my house "Because it's scary and it's halloween" I would be called racist and the police would be at my door.
Ya now comes the White Americans yelling double standard.
It's rather funny hanging that nimnut by the neck. Just as funny as calling O'Bama a socialist.
Ya now comes the White Americans yelling double standard.
It's rather funny hanging that nimnut by the neck. Just as funny as calling O'Bama a socialist.
I mean, you people do understand that it has nothing to do with double standards or a leftist agenda, the reason its racist when Obama is hung in effigy is because our country has a pretty disturbing history of hanging actual african-americans. I don't believe that the Palin and McCain ones are "Art", but if you can't see the obvious reasons behind why having Obama hanging carries far more of an impact than hanging Palin, then you should look at the last 100 years of American history. I understand that you may not personally feel that you're racist and therefore taking that action should not be viewed as racism, but at the same time you have to recognize that their is an unwritten history that is present in our words and actions so, with as much of an apology as i can muster for this case, i'm sorry, but you have to be able to take into account the meaning behind your actions and the way they will come across.
Not to mention, calling the man who did this, who i do not particularly agree with, a fag does not make you sound very intelligent or objective.
Women are rightly questioning whether hanging Palin in effigy is a gender hate crime just as hanging Obama in effigy might be interpreted as a racist hate crime - just as placing a swastika on a building might be considered a religious hate crime, or taunting homosexuals might be considered a sexual orientation hate crime.
The real question is whether all of these acts would be, or should be viewed, as treated equally as hate crime acts, as discrimination, or as acts of passion and frustration protected under the First Amendment as acts of free speech.
Equal protection demands that no group be given preference, and that all groups be protected under the same standard - but the reality of that promise has yet to be a reality.
How far can free speech go in America?
We have yet to define, and defend the answer to that question so that all acts are viewed through the same lens, with the same compassionate attention to rights as well as liberties, and the same view toward threats and the acts that constitute threats universally recognized as threats. If recognizing history for one group is acceptable to evaluate the extent of a threat, recognizing history for all groups is proper - regardless of the group implicated under the threat.
Can equal protection mean equal oppression, or equal discrimination?
Where is the line drawn in public ridicule and effigy acts?
So, it's racist if Obama is
So, it's racist if Obama is hung in effigy but it's "art" when it's the white VP candidate? Why do I suppose the ACLU will defend this fags right to display this disgusting item.