Originally posted by: OdiN
"These two people do not represent 90,000 Penn State students. They represent themselves."
No shit sherlock.
Who cares what they wore. It is just a costume. People need to grow some skin, jeez.
He goes on to defend the pictures.
"The thing is, everybody's making a big stink about Virginia Tech. Virginia Tech was 32 deaths out of the 26 thousand that happen in America everyday," he said. "That's the problem with college students. They all live in an ivory tower of privilege. They don't understand, when it all boils down to it, it's someone wearing a costume."
Originally posted by: OdiN
Who cares what they wore. It is just a costume. People need to grow some skin, jeez.
Originally posted by: pyonir
I have pretty thick skin and really don't give a shit about political correctness or any of that...but i find this to be in pretty poor taste.
Originally posted by: Pale Rider
Originally posted by: pyonir
I have pretty thick skin and really don't give a shit about political correctness or any of that...but i find this to be in pretty poor taste.
Same here.
It would take a real piece of shit to pull a stunt like this.
Originally posted by: BrokenVisage
Too soon?
Originally posted by: ViviTheMage
purpose?
Originally posted by: Minjin
People dress up as murderers or victims pretty frequently for Halloween. I'd say its more a question of time than taste. Here's an example: Text
For those who can't zoom, their shirts say "I didn't survive the Titanic". One of the greatest tragedies ever and people are making light of it. With around 1500 dead, it makes the VT incident look like a joke. But we don't seem to care because it happened a while ago...
Originally posted by: TheVrolok
Originally posted by: ViviTheMage
purpose?
Shock value? To be honest, I don't really care. There will always be insensitive people doing insensitive things - look at quite a few comedy routines/shows on TV. Just ignore them and move on.
:thumbsup:Originally posted by: OdiN
Who cares what they wore. It is just a costume. People need to grow some skin, jeez.