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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAre images of Batman appropriate in Colorado shooting tribute graphics?
Apparently, the gunman was quite taken with the Batman story - to the point of emulating The Joker by dying his hair bright red before the shooting. Also, what if the victims were viewing a movie like Ernest Goes to Camp? Would there be a graphic of a sad Ernest? Not to mention; would the Ernest story entice someone to shoot up a theater? (Well, maybe after the movie...
I'm not necessarily bothered by the graphics, but I wonder what others think about it...
lamp_shade
(15,070 posts)Confusious
(8,317 posts)So he wasn't that much of a fan if he didn't know.
I'm not a batman fan, and I knew.
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)and I thought it tacky and commercial looking, even more so than regular ribbons.
Curtland1015
(4,404 posts)It looks goofy. Not the right tone for what happened at all.
whatchamacallit
(15,558 posts)You know the country has lost touch with reality when we can't even mourn without branding. Only in America, would commercial fantasy nonsense, brought to you by a PR Firm or Ad Agency, be considered an appropriate tribute.
DefenseLawyer
(11,101 posts)I think it's a better use of our time to find more effective ways to recognize and treat mental illness than figuring out what we should censor because it could possibly give an irrational person an irrational idea.
Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)The word "censor" never crossed my mind. Nor was the concept of it anywhere near my post.
dballance
(5,756 posts)If I were the owner of the character or the producer(s) of the movie I'd want Batman as far away as possible. Batman and the movie had nothing to do with the shootings except be a convenient vehicle for amassing a full theater. Would we have put Yoda on the tribute if it were a Star Wars movie?
HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)whatchamacallit
(15,558 posts)frogmarch
(12,217 posts)no more appropriate than images of movie theater buttered popcorn would be.
Yes, what if an Ernest movie had been playing? I doubt anyone would want to use Ernest images to make a point about the shootings.