I had to catch my breath when I saw your authentic SS uniform on
Halloween night. Your Totenkopf and Schirmmütze gave
it away. It wasn’t goth. It wasn’t fetishwear. It was real, and it was
in a gay-friendly club on Capitol Hill in the year 2009. You didn’t
wear a swastika—you are a closet Nazi. You wanted to fly under
the radar so that only those who understood could see. And be
frightened. You quietly snarled that it was “political commentary.” I
responded that your SS uniform was louder than whatever political
statement you wanted to make. Only hours later did it occur to me that
fascism actually WAS your political statement. After your friend made
an anti-Semitic comment, I reported you to the person working the door.
She told me she’s Jewish and was offended by your “costume” but let you
in because you “were so polite.”
I should have made more of a scene. I should have gotten you kicked
out. I should have had a better comeback for you than “Du bist ein
Idiot!” You are so lacking in eigene Eier, you have to glorify a
sad, fucked-up history that you do not understand. If we meet again, I
will stop at nothing to have you and your hate physically removed from
the vicinity. And if said staff cannot be bothered, I will kick your
*SS back into your Nazi closet all by my dirndl-wearin’, gothic-lovin’,
PFLAG-joinin’ self! 
you’ll get over it.
Hm.
Boring….
Ew. You met an asshole out in public. They should all be locked up. Or sent away somewhere, huh? Assholes suck. Only nice people should be allowed in clubs where nice people go. I hate when I have to see someone who offends me and violates my right to not be offended.
I wonder if it was the same guy who wore his authentic Waffen-SS uniform to a Halloween party I was at years ago. He said he wore it as a tribute to the bravery of the SS soldiers. Probably not.
Oh well. Keep on fighting your little battles over people’s offensive costumes, dirdl.
They should start having some I, Anons written by people who are over the age of 16.
dirndls are really, really hawt, though.
Yeah, it figures that the Stranger readers just shrug their shoulders. They can’t be bothered to care about anything, to call bullshit when it’s needed, or see that certain things matter.
Sure guys, let’s be apathetic about Nazism, or its representation. My grandfather served in the German army during WWII, and I would not stand to see anyone try to glorify that truly wretched period of history by wearing a uniform that represents hate and genocide.
HATE and Intolerance has no place in Seattle. If I saw that asshole, I would bind him head to toe to a pole on the street, so passerby’s could have a little chat..and I would make sure he stayed bound to that pole, until he got the message.
what’s boring is these comments.
Oh, I don’t know. The only problem w/ this IA is it didn’t go far enough. I’d love to see a bunch of crunchy-green lefties kicking the shit out of a nazi-clad asswipe. Rob him & send him home bloodied w/ his clothes torn off & a big swastika painted on his chest. That’d be cool.
@datajunkie Your grammatically incorrect comment bores me.
@8 “Yeah, it figures that the Stranger readers just shrug their shoulders. “
You’re funny. Categorizing people in an effort to warn against the evils of categorizing people. Great stuff.
@Anthropomorhpise Me Well, that’s not common knowledge, and the fact that he chooses to wear a Nazi uniform, as opposed to say, a Chinese one, shows not only a blatant disregard for the victims but also a desire to publicly broadcast it.
Seriously? You people aren’t bothered by insignias specific to concentration camps? What the fuck is wrong with you all?
Also, @12: Please, bring up more mass murderer fuckwits. Stalin, maybe? He’s always a favorite. It really diminishes how horrible the holocaust was.
… Oh wait.
Maybe he just wanted to wear a scary costume
apathy is easy… giving a shit means you might risk looking stupid.
Against nazi insignias and also against hysterical judgemental douchebags here.
@8, you obviously don’t read many of these boards. dear lord, people care. WAY TOO MANY PEOPLE CARE!
pretty sure this guy in the costume got exactly what he wanted. how dare we not care??? ironically you’re the one who’s acting like a nazi. threatening violence over a costume, ON HALLOWEEN!!?!?!
welcome to planet earth. here’s some homework; howard stern, marilyn manson, rush limbaugh, steve-o, 80% of all internet sites…..these things will shock you. in time you’ll realize life is wasted on the angry.
next time you see this guy either a) engage in a rational conversation or b) walk away. try saving the world some other way.
LOL Holocaust…now THAT’S funny!
It was a solid political comment…if the comment was that you fucking losers would rather cry a river, in fact literally could not wait to, about someone wearing an offensive costume at a social event than get off your bitch asses and actually do something tangibly, measurably positive for a living, breathing human being in need. The PC police always have their priorities straight.
@ #8 che killed more the nazis? really?
what history history book did you get that from?
go blow glen beck you right wing retard.
Since when? Or are you trying to be coy by leaving out the millions upon millions of people Hitler killed in his war?
When the Fourth Reich comes, it’s all going to be your fault.
I’ve been wondering what the consequences of my actions would be if I wore more racist clothing out in public. Passive-aggressive anonymous notes in the local newspaper? Sounds like someone is going to be wearing her “Sambo’s Pancakes” t-shirt to school tomorrow!
funny, no one cares when people dress up as Christopher Columbus…
funny, no one gets pissy when people dress up as Christopher Columbus….
*clears throat
1. @ Everyone, stop trying to kill each other.
2. Agree on the fact that Nazis are idiots. And quit comparing genocides, all genocide is horrific, none is better than the other.
3. Yeah, the guy was an *sshole, an idiotic, ignorant *sshole. But (agreeing with 21) attacking someone over a costume is also idiotic, and will definitely make you look the part. There are too many things to get angry over, this is one of them, but he will get his. He’s simply too much of an idiot not to get yelled at.
*grins at 29.
real as it gets, you officially have a fan.
@23 Who says we don’t help “living breathing people?” Easy enough to for you to think we don’t, because apparently you don’t get up off your bitch ass and work alongside us helping people in need.
You met the rare idiot who dresses the part, and you want him to stop?!?
I have a friend whos Uncle was SS. She doesnt a big deal about it. She is half Cuban, she doesnt care. You do, why?
Sorry, just can’t be that witty when a topic STARTS with Godwin’s Law. Can we say idiot troll in public = yawn?
Nazis should be rounded up, arrested, taken to camps, forced to work, and then…wait a minute..
Well, they should have their asses kicked at least..
Whatever happened to good old throwing a drink in someone’s face?
You get your drama and leave vindicated, and Nazipunk fucks off with a shamed face, if not a dry cleaning bill.
An audience loves it more than a riot act being read, trust me.
I have to give the whole thing a resounding – meh.
Haters hating on haters – wow.
@37 for the win!
You’re the Nazi here. You wanted to silence political commentary simply because you don’t agree with it. Did Fred Phelps or Dick Cheney write this garbage?
I suppose if the guy in question had worn a white sheet and hood and carried around a noose, everyone would be cool with that as well? I mean, it’s just political commentary, right? or “Chillax! It’s Halloween.”
People wear dumb SS outfits to get a rise out of others. It looks like he did just that.
@40 What if it’s a black dude dressed up as kkk for halloween? Would it be racist, political commentary, humor, a Blazing Saddles homage, or would everyone’s brain circuits fry and not be able to reach a consensus?
I don’t know how many Che Guevara (aka “The Butcher of La Cabana”) killed personally, but it is well-known that Soviet and Chinese communism each have a death toll that outranks the Nazis.
@42 Likely a brain circuit fry but it would make for a great hidden video segment.
What about dressing as a catholic priest, cardinal or pope? (Of course, an SS uni might be Joey Ratz’s off-hours garb.)
If you’re comparing genocide, no one beats the Spanish Inquisition!
What is up w/ you idiots over the genocide count? Mao, Stalin, Hitler, they had no true political difference, they were all dictators. What is your point, nut sack (43), are you trying to forgive Hitler because he wasn’t as bad as two other historical figures you know about? What about Pol Pot or Mehmed VI or Robert Mugabe?
And your false equivalency just proves was idiots you are. Wearing a t-shirt w/ Mao on it is very different than dressing up in a uniform of the Red Guard under the Cultural Revolution. The latter *knows* who & what they’re representing and doesn’t have a problem with it. The former is probably another idiot using false equivalencies to support his weak theories.
At least there are some people who get it right: genocide is morally reprehensible. Doesn’t matter who, doesn’t matter when.
I just pooped in my hand. I suppose that makes me a Nazi now too, huh? To hell with you and your prefabricated prevarications.
Wow–people really think there are military uniforms that DON’T represent hate and genocide? Tsk.
I don’t advocate violence, but there’s nothing wrong with calling an idiot an idiot.
>I am sure you are really offended by people who wear MAO or Che shirts.
Never seen someone dressed up as MAO or Che. How the hell would anyone recognize them anyway?
>funny, no one gets pissy when people dress up as Christopher Columbus….
Probably because 1- nobody dressed up like Christopher Columbus and
2- If anyone did, nobody would know who the hell he was dressed up as.
Get real – everybody recognizes Hitler’s image. Everybody knows people will get upset at seeing a nazi uniform – the douchebag in the uniform was obviously trying to upset people so why shouldn’t people call him an idiot? Isn’t that the negative attention he’s looking for anyway? Serves him right.
IT WAS HALLOWEEN!!!! Give the dude a break!
It all depends on how many people were wearing SS uniforms that night. One? Amusing, and maybe hot. Two? Cute, if they were together. Twenty? Hmm. Sounds like a Log Cabin Club meeting.
I suspect the writer is German. And I suspect the Germans are touchy about Nazis the way Americans are touchy about slavery, only moreso.
In Germany you can get away with blackface in adverising, and in the US you can get away with an SS uniform as fetish gear. It’s the circle of life.