So, Is Mocking Children OK if They Are Children of Republicans?

[Honeycombe8]

86. When I read your OP, I totally agreed. I didn't see the thread in GD. Then I saw the photo....

Then I saw the photo in this thread, in a Snopes.com link. I must say I was alarmed at the creepiness of it.

I don't know what other posters said, but I spotted right away what was wrong with the family picture. It is NOT the children or wife or Acosta themselves. It is the way the parents dressed the children and did their hair. And the way the wife is dressed and her expression. The fact that Acosta looks a bit like Jack Nicholson in that picture adds to the overall creepy effect.

Like I say, I don't know what other posters said, but they have a look that reminds me of characters in the movie The Shining. The two girl twins at the end of the hall, the haircut of the son, Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall. It's not a comment on the children themselves, but the way the adults made them up.

Acosta looks similar to Nicholson. His wife looks similar to Shelley Duvall. And the little girls have a haircut similar to the son in The Shining, while also having a similarity to the twin girls at the end of the hall.

So it's not making fun of the children, really, if that's what the posters were talking about. BTW, I had a haircut just like that when I was a child....in the 1950s! Someone really needs to tell the Acosta parents something about how to groom and dress their children. This is just not normal. It really isn't.

But I agree that making fun of children is off limits. I don't regard my comments as doing that. Their children are probably teased behind their backs at school for the way their parents make them dress and cut their hair.