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Holy shit, are we now beating this dead horse's bones into a fine powder?
Should the RCMP come out and arrest me on terrorism charges if I play wearing mujahaddin gear? Shit, should hockey fans not be allowed to wear their team's jerseys? They sure as hell didn't make it into the NHL, much less the team.
Are we going to become like bikers and kill anyone who wears a club's patch that they didn't earn?
I don't personally wear rank, I find it pretentious. Similarly I don't wear skill or unit tabs and rockers and it annoys me a bit when people just throw them on to a hodgepodge ensemble for the "look cool" poser factor (again, pretentious) -- although I don't mind it so much if it's someone who's put together a respectable impression, because then it has a place (same as with re-enactors).
The people that had the row against Lerch for his impression, while I understand where they were coming from, were total pricks about it -- and they did more to damage the image of British soldiers in that one thread than people wearing Brit impressions ever did. Their attitude was downright shameful.
But honestly, a beret color? While I understand the significance, the same argument could then be applied to camo patterns (i.e., you didn't earn the privilege to wear CadPat/MarPat/UCP/DPM/AusCam/whatever) and then we're down to wearing speedball jerseys and RealTree (until some hunters whine we aren't really hunters).
If you're wearing insignia (or even a full uniform) off the field then yeah, you're doing something wrong, but on the field? It's part of the game. If you wanna rail against something go back a few pages and check out the picture of Matt Leblanc sporting the CAR t-shirt on TV; now that's fucked up.
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