People of WalMart

[Alex]

Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor

I have to say that I don't see much difference here at all.

I see such a huge difference that it is amazing to me that anybody else wouldn't see it. So I guess we'll just have to disagree.

Seriously - you're in the public arena, you may get photographed, you may get made fun of.

Yes, that's true. But just because rudeness is inevitable I don't see the need to gleefully participate.

"If you don't like people making fun of you publicly, don't be ugly in public," seems to shift the burden of politesse in a direction I'd rather not see it go.

Plus, as has been discussed a lot of the commentary sparked by these pictures was not simply "don't these people deviate fro the accepted norm of physical and sartorial appearance in an amusing way, ha ha" but also went on to make judgmental assumptions about those people's underlying character and value. Big difference between "ha ha, we sure dressed funny in high school" and "ha ha, you're a skank\uneducated\inbred\mentally ill\not worthy of human respect\morally deficient because you wear those clothes."