Brit Rant: The Other Harry - Big TO DO...

[naamagatus]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "annemehr" <annemehr at y...> 
wrote:
> 
> Don't people regularly go to costume parties dressed as monsters?  
I'm
> partly of Slovak descent; if I saw someone dressed up as Stalin, I'd
> think Stalin deserved to be made fun of that way.  I'm Catholic; if 
I
> saw someone dressed up as the devil, or a Borgia pope, I'd think the
> devil and Boria deserved to be made fun of, too.  It's because they
> all had a seriously overinflated opinion of themselves and their 
desires.
> 
>

I think, actually, that if Prince Harry had dressed as Hitler, it 
wouldn't have raised such a stink. It was him standing there, all 
nonchalant like, with a swastika on his arm, that freaks people out. 
I think. Especially as there are neo-Nazis and Holocaust deniers 
around - it's not a historical phase that is completely dead and 
buried.

I think the media has blown it out of proportion, obviously, but you 
know what? Swastikas just aren't funny. Sixty years may seem like a 
long time, but the fact is that the trauma hasn't yet faded.  


Naama