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2001/10/31-11/1 [Politics/Foreign/Asia/China] UID:22884 Activity:high
10/31   What are you dressing up as for Halloween?
        \_ paolo, covered in blood
        \_ an unemployed geek.
        \_ ass pirates!
           \_ Ahoy mate-y ...
        \_ vampire, reusing old costume from many years ago.
        \_ I convinced my (Chinese) friend to dress up as a Chinese
           coal-miner (ie, from 1800's era). Will this be offensive?
           \_ Everything is offensive to some person in the world.
        \_ I convinced my (Anglo-Saxon) friend to dress up as a white
           trash (ie, from 1950's KKK era). Will this be offensive?
           \_ A white sheet is a white sheet.  A ghost is a ghost.  Is that
              offensive?  Yes, to some.
           \_ What a horribly crafted counter-example (and poor indenting
              to boot). The main difference between your example and mine
              is that dressing up as a KKK member is offensive to other
              people (namely, almost everyone) whereas dressing up as a
              Chinese laborer would probably be offensive mainly to Chinese
              people... which my friend is. I'm not convinced that the
              costume is not offensive... just that your argument is
              flawed.
                \_ I am not familiar with the history.  Were the Chinese
                   laborers used as coal miners?  I thought they were
                   mostly working on the railway.
                   \_ er... yeah... I guess that is somewhat of a
                      weakness in the whole thing. But some must have
                      worked in coal mines too right?
        \_ Jesus Christ carrying a big ol' cross on his back. Will this be
           offensive? If not I will try harder.
           \_ if you want to offend this crowd, why not dress up as a pico user?
                \_ No.
           \_ Try harder. Some Christians even do this (_and_ hang
              themselves on crosses) around Easter.
              \_ Yes, I see that now. Perhaps, also put a swastika across my
                 chest, and wear a big rubber dildo on a strap?
        \_ Layoff survivor
        \_ DotCom CEO or VC.  Not sure yet which.
        \_ Captain Save A Ho.
           \_ E40, n***a!
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