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I love that we have free speech. I also have this weird "respect-all-people-love-your-neighbor" thing that mosaicme gives me a hard time about. Something about a bleeding heart.
This, and things like it, present a conundrum. It seems to me that those folks are well within their rights. That does not make it, however, right. In this postmodern world words "right" and "wrong" are touchy subjects, but I sort of like a Baudrillard/post-structural view: there is a right and a wrong, but it is defined by whatever discourse we are operating in. At some point there probably was a definite right and wrong, but that has been translated so many times we wouldn't recognize the original if we were looking at it. Sorta like the Bible.
Anyway, what is the proper way to respond to this? Can I condemn their actions without condoning censorship? (That's actually a really interesting question, and if I had the balls I'd start talking about that myspace tragedy where the young woman killed herself because of her online boyfriend, who turned out to be a neighbor. But I don't have the balls for that, so we'll stay where we are for now.)
It seems to me that Foucault presents a kind of answer here. Sure, that is allowed, but judging from the reaction the nature of the discourse we operate in takes care of it. Read the comments - one says something about these people never getting a job. They are being disciplined both now, by other subjects, and the prediction is that they will continue to be disciplined. The question that lingers is "is this ENOUGH discipline for such a seemingly outrageous act?" It would seem that it is, or something else would have happened by now. Until the discourse is changed this reaction is precisely what is appropriate, according to our own positions and disciplining of the discourse. Is this a cop-out? Maybe. Is it an interesting application of theory? Definitely.
Another thing mentioned in the comments here is worth considering. How is this any more or less appropriate than any number of other costumes? How many of us have seen "dead terrorist" costumes or "aborted fetus" costumes? The discourse seems arbitrary in its discipline of taste. What does that say about us, the subjects?
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