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They didn't know the meaning behind the symbolism? Where the fuck have they been, under a goddamned mountain?
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They were Puerto Ricans who I think from the article says are recent immigrants who never known about the symbolism.
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I'm trying to figure out how a scoop of ice cream with sprinkles winds up looking like a KKK hood...
I dunno. Without seeing anything it feels like when my old marching band's helmets got accused of looking like "Nazi helmets". *
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People make the silliest connections. My grandparents didn't let my dad be a Boy Scout because they thought the uniforms looked like the Hitler Youth outfits...
edited 28th Sep '11 9:34:48 PM by USAF713
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Again, any pics?
It's not an instantly recognisable symbol in many other places. If I were to see someone from a distance wearing a white hood, I'd think it was weird but the KKK is not the first possibility that would occur to me.
Be not afraid...
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Okay, found it.
And yeah, it kind of does, at least at a distance. /facepalm
edited 28th Sep '11 9:37:01 PM by Pykrete
*hrrrrrk*
I can't fathom why a KKK member would replace the robe part of his outfit with a waffle cone.
edited 28th Sep '11 9:38:04 PM by Merlo
Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am...
Eh, that's not so bad... they should just not have the top so pointy, or better yet, make it a chocolate ice cream cone.
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But then everyone would say it was a black KKK guy.
When I hear that, Dave Chappelle is all I can think of. ![[lol]](https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lol2v12_4863.png "[lol]"){kind=small}
Anyways, I don't think it was that bad. It's not like they had the guy burning a cross or holding a noose, right?
edited 28th Sep '11 9:42:03 PM by tropetown
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That's such a great skit...
And, that just looks like a dorky idiot in an ice cream suit...
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The reason also this is an issue is because a lot of people in the past have dressed up as the Ku Klux Klan in Florida.So,people are just a little paranoid when they see any resemblence to the infamous hate group.
Lover of masks.
Yeah.... how the fuck does that even come close to resembling a KKK get up.
Please.
Gristknife
He's obviously a Grand High Wizard of The Second Scoop.
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Well, the shape of the hood is sort of similar, but that's quite a stretch I think.
Semi-related, until I Googled this pic
◊ I had no idea KKK garb came in strawberry flavor. Anyone remember the Neapolitan ghost episode from early Scooby-Doo?
The resemblance is shaky at best. (It's not a robe, the bottom half is brown and the top has sprinkles, the "hood" doesn't cover the face, the man's arms are uncovered, the person wearing it is black, etc.)
To me, it looks like someone who had no idea what they were doing made an ice cream cone costume for their kid.
I'd chalk it up as a misunderstanding born of ignorance and sprinkles.
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I have to say this is especially hilarious, especially since they claim they found the costume in a storage closet. Maybe it just needs some wire or something to make the swirls stand out more?
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I was thinking use wire to try and make it poof out as more spherical-ish, but you'd have to re-tailor the scoop.
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Stupid KKK. Thanks to them, kids can't wear convincing ghost costumes on halloween.
One of these decades, there's going to be a widespread terrorist group that strives to cleanse the world of people who wear glasses. For some reason, they'll all decide to wear sombreros. Centuries later, the sombrero remains a symbol of hate against the visually challenged, and wearing one in public will get poop and tomatoes thrown at you. Grr...
They never travel alone.
A protest against chocolate ice-cream?
And let us pray that come it may (As come it will for a' that)
It's obvious intended to subvert the message of the KKK. Note the black man wearing it and the inclusion of a brown cone and sprinkles of many colors. It shows the mixture of races as producing something wonderful. Something that improves the world.
The mascot takes back the image of a hooded man which has been polluted by the KKK and turns it back into something positive.
The KKK will embrace the mascot while not realizing that it condemns them by its existence.
http://global.christianpost.com/news/icer-cream-shop-blasted-for-ku-klux-klan-vanilla-promotional-costume-56765/
Well,it looks like it was a big misunderstanding and they didn't know the history behind the infamous hate group.