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

[annemehr]

Annemehr: 
> > 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.

Sandy:
> These all strike me as different, for reasons I think best not gone 
> into here. There are nearly infinite better choices, some of which 
> you mentioned. IMHO.
> 
> Sandy, who might have been Jewish in a former life if that's allowed

Annemehr again:
There, see, I don't think Stalin is really any different, nor is his
reign of terror shrouded in the mists of time - he ruled longer and
later than Hitler.  The Hammer and Sickle is no better than the
Swastika (not that anybody makes costumes with them much).

Annemehr