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When did Utah become the new South Carolina? All kinds of crazy going on there lately.
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Roy police spokesman Matthew Gwynn told KSL that the department determined “this is not a government issue.”
The Mormon police did, however, have a problem with this Halloween display
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Hmmm. Not sure I agree that it’s offensive. I wonder if an inverted cross with an animatronic dummy being crucified would go over any better?
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…The puking one must have tasted the Pumpkin Pie beer…
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“When I was making it in the first place it never crossed my mind that one day somebody might take offense to it,” Van Milternberg said. “I don’t make these to be offensive at all. I just make them for fun and for people to enjoy.”
Twitching death throes are a hoot. I suppose this means the realistic looking robotic 50 year old raping a baby is OK too.
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yeah, this is more than a little silly. It’s not a lynched black guy, it’s just a lynched guy. It’s Halloween. Sheesh.
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Happy Hurlowe’en!
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I’m not normally one to say this, but come on! Talk about political correctness gone crazy. Nothing about that says lynching of a black person.
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Not seeing the big deal here, just a twitching hanging Halloween display.
It is a white guy … kinda like saying a plastic Santa with a bag of goodies on the lawn is depicting a looter … really stretching the imagination to find anything racist here.
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That there’s a bag on the figure’s head means it’s probably not meant to be a lynching. Lynch mobs didn’t ordinarily honor the hang-ee by covering the face.
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None of this would be so bad it not for him leaving it all up, along with his Christmas lights, through the month of May.
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Could be worse.
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No law broken. I wonder if the answer would be the same if his display depicted the murder/lynching of Joseph Smith?
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Agreed. Don’t care for TPM’s description of the figure either:
The 7-foot tall, lifelike figure has its hands tied behind its back and a white hood over its head.
It’s clearly some sort of burlap sack over his head not a “white hood”.
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I gotta agree with you on this. If the animatronic dummy was specifically identified as “this is what happens to uppity ni(CLANG)”, then the NAACP would be completely in the right for calling for it’s removal. But otherwise - meh. It’s Halloween.
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Gotta say that I was all set to be offended at some racist, but I don’t think it is anything to be upset about. Now, if the figure was clearly black, and there were other figures standing around wearing white hoods, then there would be a case.
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Word on the street is Rebecca was notoriously slow on the “Make me a sandwich, woman!!” demand. Bobby Jindal thinks the perp is getting a bad rap and we all owe him an apology.
Outrage level: low.
The word “to lynch” does not mean “to hang to death”, it means “to punish by death without legal due process”. Often this was done via hanging, but the terms are not synonymous.
Unless there is some other evidence to the contrary (i.e. if the dummy’s skin tone were black, or there were obvious racial cues nearby), this just seems to be a normal Halloween decoration. NAACP needs to chill out a bit.
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The dummy’s skin is actually white. You can see it’s hands in the video.
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