Do you think a noose is an offensive halloween decoration?

Question

I was watching the news last night, and saw that in several places, people had been asked by the police to take down their fake corpse hanging by a noose.

What are your thoughts on this?

Is a noose an offensive halloween decoration? Why do you feel that way?

Is it infringing on people's rights to ask them to take a decoration down?

Do you think a noose is a symbol of racism, despite the fact that hangings were practiced long before America even existed?

Are we becoming TOO sensitive in this country, or do you think its necessary?

*Note: the fake bodies that were hung in peoples' yards were NOT black.

PS: At a biker bar, they had decorated with multiple bodies, including one hanging on a meat hook, but the one with a rope around its neck was the only one they were asked to take down. Which they refused. Why do you think its ok to depict some forms of death, but not a specific one?

Nope, I'm not in florida. I'm in Oregon, but it was on CNN.

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Our generation is not responsible for the actions of our ancestors. Just because SOME white people were cruel to SOME black people, why must we all walk on eggshells?

Along this line of thinking...

If my great-grandmother had been brutally raped and murdered, would that give me the right to protest the depiction of rape/murder in movies?

How about white people as a whole? Should we all take offense to bon fires because in the past some people were persecuted and burned at the stake? "Oh my! That fire reminds me of the horror my ancestors endured! -gasp!-"

People of all colors, genders, religions... have endured some sort of suffering in the past.

Cant we simply learn from the mistakes of the past, and MOVE ON?

Why give a simple object that kind of power over us?

Hangings throughout all of time were not exclusive to black people.

Answer 1

I don't take offense to it. Nooses were used in ALL types of hangings. Halloween is ALL about death. A noose is a symbol of death. I see no need in being sensitive about it. Good luck. 2D

Answer 2

I've seen a couple of skeletons hung by a noose with a grim reaper at the side. I don't find that racist or insulting; it's a Halloween and/or death thing. However, lynching is still real on some people's minds and will take the fake corpses as a racist act.

Answer 3

A noose has become the symbol for racism, specifically racism against Black Americans. And while I would think most folks hanging bodies for Halloween were just trying to be ghoulish, the fact remains that it's an image that can incite.

I would hazard a guess that all those posters who say it isn't a symbol or racism are white. Of course the symbol means nothing offensive to them.

As far as it being okay because the actual lynchings took place long ago, sorry, but that doesn't hold water. The Holocaust happened long ago, but I'm pretty sure if some jerk were to build a "Spooky Auschwitz" in his front yard, he'd be forced to take it down.

Are we too sensitive in this country? Sometimes. But not in this instance.

Answer 4

You must live in florida near hommosassa . the reason I say that is because I live in florida as well and the biker bar where they were hung was in hommosassa . people need to relax it is just a decoration . they have that sort of thing at busch gardens halloween horror nights . so to say no not an offensive thing and it was not meant to be . I think some ppl go over backwards to accomedate others rights and we need to learn to relax in this country and get over things that occured 2,000.00 years ago !!!!