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i'm with Laurel on this one. site is making me feel ill.

what part of this is "burning"?

gosh you're right gabs, a lit cross on a lawn in no way recalls crosses burning on lawns, it's just a bottle opener after all

srsly would consider plunking down $82 for a 5.5 ft light-up combination cross/bottle opener

It'd be perfect for opening this:

http://www.wotif.com/webdata/image/promotion/big_bottle.jpg

John, I really do not disagree w you that this product should never have reached the market, but I think you're VASTLY overestimating the mental complexity of both the creators and their market. Even when it's punitive, racist, and evil, this religious belief/lifestyle set is IMMENSELY earnest. And not very sophisticated, nuanced, etc.

it's not just that it's a "light-up cross", the construction of it (ie lumpy lights) WOULD and DOES resemble fire. it's not purposeful but that doesn't stop it from being retarded and anyone who is saying otherwise is a disingenuous spoiled white brat OR a secret british. DEAL

xpost more directed at gabbneb and kerm than you, laurel, but i think it's pretty lame to pretend everyone purchasing this product is some kind of forrest gump.

I think it's pretty accurate to pretend everyone purchasing this product is some kind of Forrest Gump!

"Life is like a box of racist products."

Ned for win

I have no idea who's purchasing the thing, I don't know who's purchasing those propaganda videos either but they make my skin crawl. The cross strikes me as being as tacky as light-up Baby Jesuses for your lawn at Christmas, but if not for ILX I would have passed right over it! Maybe I'm just being naive/sheltered?

lolz Ned zing

I just have this strong feeling that the light-up cross is going to be hung from the pinnacle of garages as the "nativity star" in neon creche scenes for the holidays. I wouldn't put ANYTHING past those people.

I'm just trying to imagine the mindset of someone who sees a 5+ft light-up cross and thinks "IT'S PERFECT" but I am probably discounting the part where the person is earnestly browsing this site intending to make a purchase.

they're taking it back.

For instance: I'm kind of shocked there isn't one in this photo:

http://studio1seven.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/MWC/_DSC5234.JPG

the cross came later.

Then there's the institutional level example -- this is about five blocks away from me (sorry about the small photo size):

http://www.markdroberts.com/images/TBN-Xmas-lights-5.jpg

http://doesthisblogmakemybuttlookbig.com/wp-content/uploads/7_flogging.jpg

xxp Yeah, I mean, who the hell would crucify a newborn?

https://store.afa.net/pc-29-4-god-cannot-be-trusted-and-five-other-lies-of-satan.aspx

lol poor cover design
also, the prize should include a new car

J0hn, are you aware that
a) in America, there are vast numbers of people who like to put large collections of small lights with a Christmas holiday theme all over their lawns and houses
and
b) in the contemporary United States, there are vast numbers of people who have very little knowledge of history, and that the knowledge of religious fundamentalists in the interior West about the pre-civil rights era South might be more diminished than most?

what are these people saying - i'm going to burn my own house down? these might be dumb questions, but they're no dumber than the notion that a cross wrapped in holiday lights rather than with the lights fused to the cross is a vague, subtextual, public advertisement of the owner's enjoyment in appropriating racist symbols. or are you suggesting that someone would buy this for intimidation purposes. what are the mixed-race neighborhoods you imagine being the target market here?

Gabbneb, the idea of you schooling J0hn on these points is the best laugh I've had all day.

that's kind of the point here, Ned

sorry I'm not an itinerant OC/midwestern/Southerner, it's such a personal failing

Now I am SUPER doubting my take on this, because gabbneb is making sense to me. I wish it were coming from someone else, I really do, but...stopped clocks, once, etc.

fyi i'm a south carolinian born n raised who went to school with the kids of grand dragons and when i saw this i didnt think kkk

gabbneb is still a dick tho

what are the mixed-race neighborhoods you imagine being the target market here?

waht

oh nvr mind, I get it, at first it parsed like "mulattos be buyin' racist crosses!"

I gotta agree with ethan here that KKK was not the first thing that sprang to mind when I saw this.

I dunno what the people who buy them will be thinking, but the first thing that struck me was the KKK angle, and I was pretty gobsmacked.

whether or not it is burning cross like enough is debatable... I don't give a shit what the intent behind it was

"pre-Civil Rights era South." Like nobody burns crosses for racial intimidation any more.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/11072008/news/regionalnews/o_cross_burning_137570.htm

whether or not it is burning cross like enough is debatable... I don't give a shit what the intent behind it was

― bnw, Friday, November 21, 2008 2:16 PM (25 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^^^ this, yes, exactly.

yeah guys lets have the bottle opener argument again

fwiw I agree as well, which is why my comments have been less "how could you find this racist?" and more "I didn't find it racist, now let's laugh at the rest of the stupid shit on this site"

I think that lit lawn cross is along the same lines of accidental racism as "i.Beat Blaxx"

http://blog.lib.umn.edu/onye0004/politics/210259_3.jpg

gabbneb to anybody who finds lit crosses on lawns a little wtf after a minute's reflection: "it's cool, they didn't mean anything by it"

that lady's fake eyebrows always distract me from the racism

gosh you're right gabs, a lit cross on a lawn in no way recalls crosses burning on lawns, it's just a bottle opener after all

― J0hn D., Friday, November 21, 2008 1:35 PM (46 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah guys lets have the bottle opener argument again

― :) Mrs Edward Cullen XD (max), Friday, November 21, 2008 2:19 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I may have to send that porn addiction dvd to some married friends just to mess with them ^^

someone go find the horseshoe crazy pills post, thats the applicable one here

http://www.eatliver.com/img/2007/2535.jpg
i hope we can all agree on this

sorry ethan but i don't like liver very much

wait

i definitely agree that i have to go to eatliver.com to see that image

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e38/MrKitties/1177044610004.jpg

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

it's just a desk for a kid and it happens to be black i don't see how anyone could possibly be weirded out by that name gosh seriously