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[PuertoRicanNightmare]

Ok, I'll bite. What, exactly, is offensive about the patch?

I don't understand either. What is offensive? Pork eating crusader? Who is supposed to be offended?

There is so much PC BS out there that people get confused about what is offensive and what isn't...and you know why? Because nobody is offended!

[GGGG]

I think you are smart enough to figure out why some Muslims would be offended by the in-your-face nature of the patch, including the word crusader.

Look, I am not going to debate whether or not someone *should* find it offensive.  If you want to keep it in your signature, I am hardly going to complain about it - I have never suggested that you remove it.

[g0lden3agle]

I hid signatures years ago.  i forget why, but it was something NSFW that I felt I was better off w/o them and haven't looked back.

[mu_hilltopper]

WTF, this place is moderated?  When did that start?

Aaaaaand you're banned.

[keefe]

I don't understand either. What is offensive? Pork eating crusader? Who is supposed to be offended?

There is so much PC BS out there that people get confused about what is offensive and what isn't...and you know why? Because nobody is offended!

Enemy polemic is a strange beast. Western Power imagery of the Japanese was simian. Germans were cast as letter day Huns. Fascist Italy used images of American Gangsters to portray the GI's landing on Sicily.

There is a great scene in Private Ryan where Tom Hanks and Ted Danson are taking cover in the rain while a German is screaming in a loudspeaker, "The Statute of Liberty is Kaput!" Hanks wry quip in reply is classic, "Well, that's disconcerting..."

My response when I first heard that the Taliban were calling us "Pork Eating Crusaders" was to laugh. And I can assure Sultan that, unlike the "N-Word," not one Coalition troop, UN staffer, or humanitarian aid worker was the least bit offended by such a stupid bit of wartime diatribe. In fact, it is so absurd an image that it was embraced.

RAF and USAAC crews were belittled by name in broadcasts by Axis Sally and Lord Haw Haw. Their response? Irreverent Crew Dogs painted the silly expressions on their aircraft.

Fact is, no one is actually offended by Pork Eating Crusader. It is a Red Herring.  

[warriorchick]

I hid signatures years ago.  i forget why, but it was something NSFW that I felt I was better off w/o them and haven't looked back.

Was it my sexy dancin' Clay Matthews signature? 

[StillAWarrior]

I think the new alternate cap for the Lehigh Valley IronPigs would be more subtle.

[g0lden3agle]

Was it my sexy dancin' Clay Matthews signature? 

Lol sadly no. I want to say stone cold had one involving jiggly boobs back in the day. Could totally be making that up

[4everwarriors]

So let me see if I am getting this.  The Taliban call us (Westerners) "pork-eating crusaders" in an attempt to disparage us.  We, in turn, take this nickname and adopt it with pride, brandishing it on the sleeves of our military.

Who is offended?  Non-pork-eating members of the US military?

That's racist.

[jesmu84]

That's racist.