KKK Guy hanged on Green Day's video?

[Starbug]

The only reason I would feel any remorse over a KKK member or any white supremacist is because killing is wrong... I guess

Tricky, innit? lol I mean, on the one hand, look at how much damage they've done. How many lives they've taken because they felt it was their right. But on the other, it still doesn't make it right to take theirs. Murder is murder. God and life will deal with them. They've done some terrible things, and they'll have to answer for them.

[jose armstrong]

The only reason I would feel any remorse over a KKK member or any white supremacist being murdered is because killing is wrong... I guess

kind of brain-locked in here, please do, tell me more

[rootbeersoup]

kind of brain-locked in here, please do, tell me more

I think I pretty much summed up my opinion in that single post

[jose armstrong]

if u want to.

i just thought it was a bit relevant.

I wasn't bashing the thread

I think I pretty much summed up my opinion in that single post

no, I mean, explain

[rootbeersoup]

no, I mean, explain

Explain what? How killing is wrong?

[jose armstrong]

ah, nevermind, long day, long day

I shall go to sleep nowz

[Comrade]

The only reason I would feel any remorse over a KKK member or any white supremacist being murdered is because killing is wrong... I guess

Only in some cases. I'd be fine to watch them be fried alive. Injection would be too god for them.

[BadgerLALA]

I don't really what to write. But what KKK did was bad you know but to show someone hunged...

[jose armstrong]

Only in some cases. I'd be fine to watch them be fried alive. Injection would be too god for them.

:starwars:

yes, let the hate flow through ya.

[justcause]

I don't really know what to think of this... But to be honest, and I feel bad about thinking this way, but I've seen so many images of black people hanging from trees, and being from a town with an active KKK, this doesn't offend me in the least.

Exactly - which is what makes seeing the reverse of that image so powerful, and so it gets your attention. I don't take it literally - I see it as 'hanging' the mindset of bigotry and racism.

[alexandrez]

maybe this is a sign of how angry the album really is.

like, to the point of wishing death to KKK members.

or it's there to compensate the use of the word nigger on the album.

[jose armstrong]

good point, but the word nigger was used for the same purpose the hanged KKK member was used

[alexandrez]

good point, but the word nigger was used for the same purpose the hanged KKK member was used

well yea, but some people wont see it that way and will find it offensive either way.

hanging the KKK dude is just to "highlight" the point they are trying to make.

i can be so wrong though

[jose armstrong]

Now you make sense

[The Disappearing Boy]

ya just never know with green day.

[starbucksfreak]

Ooh i see it now, thanks starbug .. but hah! funny-ness

[Anja]

wow. i don´t know what to say.

[Pineapple]

wow thats weird and amazing.

their album is just beautiful

[watsername182]

Wow, I would never have noticed that if it wasn't pointed out to me.

[chatnoir]

yes, let the hate flow through ya.

Honestly, in some cases, I might be tempted to back away from the "Don't kill" taboo. First obviously there are those cases of self-defense. But even if it is not a clear case of self-defense: What for instance is with murdering a tyrannic leader? Those attempts to kill Hitler for instance - Plain attempt of murder, which is despicable just like any other?

I wouldn't encourage people to kill white supremacists and I wouldn't be celebrating, but my amount of remorse would be limited and dependant on the level of viciousness of the victim, I guess. There was this vicious, extreme right winged austrian politician, Jörg Haider, for instance, who managed to die in a car crash, because he was driving totally drunk and way too fast. When I heard the news, I just couldn't suppress a feeling of malicious joy.

Exactly - which is what makes seeing the reverse of that image so powerful, and so it gets your attention. I don't take it literally - I see it as 'hanging' the mindset of bigotry and racism.

I would also analyze it like this. I even pity, that the picture wasn't shown clearer. It looks somewhat as if they tried to hide the picture a bit.

[Tiffx]

Well that's very interesting. I'm definitely not offended by it because I have no reason to be.

But I do find it kind of disturbing.

[Angela.]

Well that's very interesting. I'm definitely not offended by it because I have no reason to be.

But I do find it kind of disturbing.

My exact thoughts.

[Hermione]

Exactly - which is what makes seeing the reverse of that image so powerful, and so it gets your attention. I don't take it literally - I see it as 'hanging' the mindset of bigotry and racism.

I see it the same. There's no way it's some kind of call to murder anyone, it's a metaphor.

It seems like another kind of protest to go along with the theme of the album, you could almost imagine it on a placard at an anti racism rally.

[Nele]

Wow that's ehm... I don't know really what to write.

Looking at that guy makes me feel a bit queasy.

But as some people here already said, I don't think they mean by this all KKK guy's should be killed. Just racism itself.

Now I have even more hopes for the new album.

[**kookai**]

it was never there before, someone photo shop it in

where did u get the screen shot anyway ?