So dressing up as fictional evil characters is ok, but real ones is tasteless?

[url]http://www.cbc.ca/cp/Oddities/061101/K110104U.html[/url]

[I]A Brooklyn high-school student caused a stir when he showed up for class dressed as Adolf Hitler for Halloween, insisting it was a satire of the Nazi dictator.

School administrators ordered the junior honours student to remove his beige coat bearing a red swastika arm band, or possibly face spending the day in the office, Petryk told the New York Post.

Petryk refused, saying his parody was protected by his right to freedom of expression.

Petryk's stepfather, Howard Bloom, who is Jewish and lost relatives during the Nazi genocide, told the Post he was initially "very disturbed" by the costume but nonetheless defended his stepson's rights.

"If he had wanted to advocate my genocide, I wouldn't have allowed" the costume, Bloom said. "That wasn't the spirit in which he was doing this at all. He was doing it in the spirit of Monty Python and Mel Brooks." [/I]