You Know It Was Bound To Happen: Snowflakes Offended By Halloween Decorations
I resigned myself years ago to the fact that Halloween was never going to be as fun for the kids of today as it was for me when I was a kid, or, for that matter, even the way it was when my kids were that age.
As kids, we liked the idea of being scared. The spookier it was, the more we liked it. We appreciated houses with great displays. Even as an adult, I made sure my kids saw the houses that had the best decorations.
When my kids were “trick-or-treating” age, we always decorated our front porch area. One mainstay that we kept in our attic was a man dressed in overalls, a flannel shirt, work gloves, and work boots that we called “The Woodsman.” He was stuffed with newspapers, and he looked good. We would prop him up and sit him in a chair on the porch. Since he didn’t have a head, I would stop at the grocery store on my way home Halloween evening, put a turkey neck where his head would be, and surround it with chicken livers. It was a little gory, but the neighborhood kids loved it. In fact, when they saw us decorating in the weeks before Halloween, they asked, “Is The Woodsman going to be there this year?”
Today, someone probably would have complained about our “Woodsman.”
Would I have reneged and changed it?
Absolutely not.
I simply would have told them that if they didn’t like it, they should skip our house. That’s the problem with the pansies on the left. If they see something they don’t like, they want it canceled for everybody. These people are perpetually offended. Far too many of them wake up every morning and relentlessly look for things to complain about. By doing so, they ruin things for others, but they don’t care. They take satisfaction in knowing they have disrupted others’ lives.
In Bristol, Pennsylvania, there is a home that the owner has spent the last seven years building. This is his first Halloween there, and he wanted to put out a good Halloween display. So, he created a graveyard arranged cornstalks, brightly colored potted mums, and carved jack-o’-lanterns.
However, his display also includes figures wrapped in black plastic bags and silver reflective tape, hung from nooses in his tree. There are also two 15-foot-high scarecrows with claw hands that some people don’t like.
This sounds like the perfect Halloween display: colorful and fun, with a little spookiness. That said, it didn’t stop some neighbors from wanting to ruin it for everyone.
The homeowner says that he bought all of the decorations last year at Home Depot and online from Amazon. He said he never anticipated this kind of reaction.
“They’re just Halloween decorations. I think it’s been blown out of proportion.”
One neighbor, Karla Scott, who is black, clearly thinks she’s more educated than the homeowner and believes what she wants should happen.
“I don’t know if the person is just not educated on this, but it’s very offensive. Not just to the Black people in the community but the community as a whole. It’s not appropriate for 2026.”
On October 12th, Scott took her complaints to the city council. There she lamented a story about visitors from Burlington, New Jersey, who saw the display and were upset. They then reported it to a Baptist church that Scott belongs to.
Scott wanted the borough to convince the homeowner to remove the hanging body bags, but she was informed that there was nothing they could do. Council President Ralph DiGuiseppe explained that the zoning inspector had already spoken with the homeowner, but he didn’t agree with the request and declined to remove them. He also informed Scott that there was no law that restricted the type of decorations that can be displayed.
Bristol Mayor Frank Peranteau said he saw the display and confirmed the borough has received other complaints, but added that people who support leaving the display as is have also contacted them.
To no one’s surprise, the Bucks County NAACP also weighed in. They contacted the Bristol Council in writing, urging them to keep trying to get the homeowner to remove the part of the display that some spoiled, oversensitive adults are affected by.
Chapter President Adrienne King said in a statement released Oct. 16th:
“This is not about taking away someone’s right to celebrate Halloween. It is about recognizing that some images carry a history of violence and terror that cannot simply be dismissed as decoration. Dead bodies hanging from trees evoke one of the darkest chapters in American history, when, for generations, lynching was used as an instrument of racial oppression, particularly against Black Americans.”
King added that they don’t believe the homeowner meant anything racially offensive, but a lack of intent doesn’t eliminate the impact, and that “historical context matters.”
“The Constitutional right to freedom of expression does not mean freedom from criticism or the responsibility to consider how actions affect others. Something can be legally permissible and still be profoundly harmful.”
All of this is over some Halloween decorations. The left is full of hypocrites. They think they can say and do anything they please, and that they also have the right to demand change about anything that strikes them wrong.
These are nothing more than Halloween decorations; all rational people understand that. They are bags hanging from a tree for a scary effect. There is nothing racial about this display. The homeowner is under no obligation to try to appease the thoughts inside some irrational leftist’s mind.
In an interview with NBC 10, another neighbor, Mike Wade, summed up the situation as it was intended.
“At first I looked at it, and it’s a little bit different. Like, but then I’m looking, it’s Halloween. My house is scary. My house is always scary. It’s always set up scary. Same thing. Dead bodies lying around, skeletons. It’s Halloween.”
Yes, Mike, it’s Halloween. Good for you and the others in the area who see the display for what it is. Despite what the perpetually offended want to believe, not everything is racially motivated. Rather than trying to change the display, they’d be better served by changing their perspectives.
