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Please No Cultural Appropriation this Halloween
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1. Dressing as Moana may seem harmless but some argue it turns Polynesians into a costume.
It can be insensitive to Polynesian culture. Disney Shop
With the popularity of the film "Moana," costumes featuring the princess will be everywhere. While it may seem like a no-brainer to have your kid dress up as a movie character they emulate, many feel that dressing up white children as Moana turns Polynesians, and their culture, into a costume.
"Recognize this: Moana is a really special character to young girls of Polynesian descent who have never seen a Disney Princess who looks like them, just like how Tiana from 'The Princess and the Frog' likely resonated with young Black women who had waited decades to see themselves represented," the editors of Redbook wrote in an op-ed. "White girls have plenty of princesses to choose from — there's Belle, Ariel, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty … you get the idea. If your Caucasian son or daughter doesn't get to be exactly what they wanted for Halloween, encourage them to take a step back and realize that they're awash in privileges that the real Moanas and Tianas of the world will likely never see, because the world is full of racist a-------."
It's worth noting that others, including writer Preeti Varathan, have argued that kids can wear this costume as long as it's done in a respectful way.
"Discouraging your children's impulses, and insisting they stick to white alternatives, misdirects their initial feelings of adoration for a woman of color," Varathan wrote in Quartz. "Brad Meltzer, a children's book author who has spent decades studying the concept of heroes, believes 'heroes are really magic mirrors. Your heroes don't just reflect you; they reveal you.' This makes your child's impulse to worship Moana, a girl from a different race and culture, even more worth protecting."
Jaxson Lee
Blackface has a deeply painful history in the black and African-American communities. Costumes with blackface, as "Daily Show" correspondent Roy Wood Jr. noted in a segment, are something that should be avoided at all costs.
"Blackface is like smoking on an airplane. It used to be acceptable a long time ago but now we know it hurts people around us," he said. "That's why when it comes to blackface, your intentions don't matter."
William Morgan
It's okay to be white
Connor Evans
There's a trend on Halloween for people to dress as "hobos" or people who are homeless as a joke. As the Montgomery County Coalition for The Homeless reminded people, a person who is homeless is not a costume and poverty is certainly not something to be used as a punchline.
"This Halloween, please don't dress up like a person experiencing homelessness," the group wrote. "It's unthinkable that anyone would dress up as someone experiencing domestic violence or as a child in extreme poverty. So please respect our clients' humanity as you plan your Halloween costume this year."
Grayson Morris
Putting your kids in a headdress or other Native American clothing is cultural appropriation, argues author Terra Trevor, and should be avoided.
"As Native American people, we are a culture — not a costume. I understand that wearing a culture as costume is not intended to hurt most of the time. However, the fact of the matter is that it does," Trevor wrote in a post for Matador Network.
"Native-alike regalia has become popular style-wear in the mainstream in the US. This fetish for dressing in a manner to look like an American Indian has moved beyond Halloween — and has become a year-round clothing trend for adults who are dressing up to resemble a race and culture of people they do not belong to," Trevor continued. "Some wear it out of naiveté and others in a blatant disregard, disrespect, and irreverence."
Brayden Lee
5. Geishas are a traditional part of Japanese culture that should not be replicated.
It's appropriating a culture. Target
You may be tempted to dress your kids up like a geisha, but many have argued that this is another example of cultural appropriation
"To treat a character like Batman or Superman as a Halloween costume is one thing, but to treat an entire ethnicity as a costume is something else," Jelani Cobb, a professor of Africana studies at Rutgers University and the author of "The Substance of Hope: Barack Obama and the Paradox of Progress," told CNN. "It suggests that people conflate the actual broad diversity of a culture with caricatures and characters."
Also, many have taken issues with exactly how these costumes are created, including that there is often the stereotype of the "sexy" Geisha, according to a BuzzFeed video.
"If you want to be sexy on Halloween, there are so many ways you can be sexy without disparaging another person's culture," Jen Ruggirello, a Japanese BuzzFeed staffer, said in the same video.
Owen Martinez
Does this make anyone else want to dress up as the most racist shit and run around triggering idiots
Camden Brown
>polynesian
>culture
Owen Collins
Last year, a few retailers came under fire for selling an Anne Frank costume for children. While most stores pulled the costume following the immense backlash, some online retailers kept it, re-branding it with the title, "World War II Evacuee Girl."
"There are better ways to commemorate Anne Frank," Carlos Galindo-Elvira, regional director of the Arizona Anti-Defamation League, tweeted at the time. "This is not one. We should not trivialize her memory as a costume."
Asher Howard
What about dressing up as witches, wizards, warlocks, knights, princesses, etc.... ? Is that exclusive to Whites only because it's their culture? Or do they have to share that because gibs?
Luke Baker
independent.co.uk
Laugh at it friends
Also, as a half-british, half-desi, homosexual fellow, I am giving EVERYONE on Jow Forums full permission to use
>British culture
>Desi culture
>Gay culture
as they wish this (and every) Hallowe'en.
Dylan Mitchell
T he term "Eskimo" is considered a slur by many Inuit people. That aside, dressing up as Inuit is another example of turning a culture into a costume. In fact, this trend made one Inuit man so fed up that he penned a blog called "folks dressed up like 'Eskimos.'"
Luke Barnes
Whether it's as a sumo wrestler or an inflatable ballerina, any costume that comes with a fat suit is seen as body shaming by many.
Speaker and author of the blog "Dances With Fat," Ragen Chastain argued that wearing a fatsuit is literally using someone's body as a punchline.
"This is literally putting on someone else's body - a body that, as it exists in the world, is subject to a tremendous amount of shame, stigma, bullying, and oppression," Chastain wrote. "Costumes like this add to that shame, stigma, bullying, and oppression by perpetuating the idea that there is something about being fat that should be laughed at. Then, having used their body as a tool for fatphobia, the wearer removes the costume and returns to their life of thin privilege."
Justin Jones
go back to the 70s bro
David Wright
Many moms were concerned after a trend of morphsuits and "invisible" costumes became popular, noting that it could be difficult for motorists to see children in these costumes.
"I wanted it off the shelves immediately!" Lyss Stern, CEO of Diva Moms, told Little Things. "This costume is extremely dangerous. Children cannot see through the costume, let alone if they are walking across the street the cars can't see them. They are completely invisible; it is completely dangerous."
Liam Stewart
Guns, swords, knives, and other weapons may seem like a natural part of many Halloween costumes but many argue that they can post unnecessary risks and encourage violence.
Aiden Harris
11. Transphobic costumes can have big consequences.
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Dressing your child as a gender other than one they identify with or dressing them up as a trans person is seen as transphobic by many.
"To make a costume out of a marginalized identity reduces that person and community to a stereotype for privileged people to abuse," read a petition to get a Caitlyn Jenner Halloween costume off of the shelves.
"At a time when trans women ... especially black trans women, are being murdered at such a high rate, and homelessness, unemployment, and inaccessibility to health care run rampant in our community, making fun of one or all of us is utterly insensitive and deplorable."
Costumes like the "tranny granny" were also slammed by trans activists for their implications that trans women are simply "men in women's clothing."
"Placing a cisgender man in 'granny-like' attire, and marketing it as the 'Tranny Granny Costume,' is such a poignant reflection of how society views trans women," Ashlee Marie Preston, a transgender activist, told Mic. "It perpetuates the idea that at the end of the day we are merely men in women's clothing. The trans experience is often dismissed and rarely taken serious; and Wal-Mart's illustration of what a 'tranny' looks like underscores the sophomoric, slapstick, campy humor associated with being transgender or a 'tranny.'"
Liam Allen
Unless you're celebrating Halloween in the Arctic, what fucking Eskimo is going to be around to be offended?
Brody Cooper
99% of people being "offended" are actually white virtue signalling liberals who feel like they need to defend everyone else
Thomas Cooper
Is it normal for shit like this to make me feel extra happy that Trump is in office?
Cameron Long
I guess the only thing to do is dress up like a freebleeding pinkhaired liberal fat feminist retard
Hunter Ortiz
only one that makes sense... in the current year a cop might shoot your kid for having a toy gun.
Ian Gray
>poverty is certainly not something to be used as a punchline
Bullshit it ain't
Camden Lee
Standard over reacting idiots.
Elijah Carter
thats right mother fuckers NO FUN ALLOWED cause muh fee fees
Zachary Evans
Unless you have received the award from HRH The Queen please do not dress as a Knight (or Dame), that would be extremely offensive. A Knighthood is a major accolade from a grateful nation to someone who has given exceptional service.
William Torres
mine are wearing blackface
and by mine i mean me
Jayden Baker
Please, appropriate my culture!
Xavier Martinez
That goes for you too Robert "Beto" O'Rourke
Ayden Robinson
Jordan Diaz
If I see anyone with any of these costumes I'll be sure to give them extra candy
Bentley Scott
Well I for one approve of this message of racial purity and celebration of one's people's history. Culture is tied to blood after all, just like Hitler said.
Black character costumes for Blacks only, Asian costumes for Asians only, White costumes for Whites only. A place for everything and everything in its place. 14/88
Thomas Nelson
In the meantime, showing Ciri as a nigger is fine, and showing medieval Europe with nigger-knights is perfectly fine...
Daniel Hill
Remember when sjws tried to stop nips from culturally appropriating themselves?
Aaron Cook
Are world leaders and business men appropriating British culture?
Juan James
I dressed up as Steve Urkel, complete with blackface in 1989. We are at a restaurant and sat next to a black family whose kid was also dressed as urkel. Everyone had a good laugh
Jacob Richardson
So how do I dress up as a fat, polynesian, homeless, native american (blackface/redface, of course!) geisha who survived the holocaust, and also carries a gun and is a transgendered eskimo? I mean how do I make it WORK in practice?
Parker Walker
Unless your genetics are R1b haplotype dominant, you shouldn't even celebrate "Halloween" aka Samhain, as it is a celebration created by and for European Celts.
Any nonCelt observing Samhain is guilty of cultural appropriation.
Joshua Roberts
>In the meantime, showing Ciri as a nigger is fine, and showing medieval Europe with nigger-knights is perfectly fine...
That's years ago, m8. Now it's hateful and evil if you DON'T have all that, see Kingdom Come Deliverance.
Oliver Taylor
What are some Jow Forums approved Halloween costumes?
Bentley Baker
>"At a time when trans women ... especially black trans women, are being murdered at such a high rate,
Are we refering to suicide as “murder by society” or something now?
Eli Reed
I'm going to appropriate bear culture
Hudson Rodriguez
>poverty is certainly not something to be used as a punchline.
Grayson Rogers
The war on Halloween continues.
Meanwhile, dressing like this is OK
Lucas Kelly
then getting your ass kicked and clothes stolen jajajajajajaja
Jeremiah Jones
Fake news
Everyone knows whites have no culture
Alexander Phillips
But the language you're speaking is "white culture"...
William Brooks
Don't appropriate Irish culture
Dominic Walker
Isaac Howard
So when are they going to start making slutty children's costumes?
Austin Peterson
Joshua Collins
>it's only okay if adults play pretend
the absolute state of the liberal brain
Dylan Reed
>holocaust victim costume
dude wut?
Lincoln Reyes
>the whole point of halloween is to appropriate other cultures
>reee stop celebrating our diversity
when can we genocide liberals?
Nathan Bailey
I'd be surprised if trans murder wasn't at a historical low
Ryan Cooper
You'd be surprised, man. They're everywhere.
Parker Sanchez
Let me guess: Dressing as a viking is absolutely okay for all races though.
Alexander Rodriguez
I loved these so much!
Adrian Rodriguez
Bro we don't give a shit.
Someone has to show the world how it's done, and if I can do my part by not being offended over people wearing a hat, I'll do it.
I mean fuck, we're making money off it. These bitches need to unrustle their jimmies and monetize that shit instead of whine about it.
Kevin Long
I did not mean you or any Scandinavian to get offended by that. It's just leftist double standards that makes my piss boil.
Jason Thomas
It's why I want them to keep dressing up as vikings.
Because every time I get into an argument about "user why are you wearing a kuffiyeh that's horribly offensive to arabs" I can say that
1: The arabs I've met universally find it hilarious and,
2: It's just a hat/shirt/facepaint, what's the big deal? Not like I care about people running around in fake beards and horned helmets, or the Thor movies misrepresenting Nordic paganism.
Hudson Perez
That's an interesting angle for sure.
Quite convincing - I get you now.
Austin Long
Just gotta roll with it. I suggest you try the same thing with Bavarian culture being used as costumes/a bar theme.
Or whatever part of German culture is appropriate for you, but Bavarian is the most recognizable.
Logan Russell
Doesn't everyone do that every Halloween?
Caleb Butler
>No Cultural Appropriation this Halloween
so only whites are allowed to celelbrate, neat
Jace Smith
hitler
pointy headed ghost
James Johnson
He wears it pretty well desu.
Aiden Howard
Long gone are the days when my buddy dressed up as a Ku Klux Klansman for Halloween and no one said shit about it. This was in Commiefornia, too. Long long ago.
Justin Walker
Good God, Liberal women find everything offensive. Fuck these miserable bitter PC hags.
Go out & dress as an Indian, Cop, or Zombie & have some fun!
Dominic Robinson
Thats not even what Polynesians dressed like lol. Where is the Lavalava?
Christian Lee
Link to article: thisisinsider.com
Funny how the article doesn't mention dressing as a slut as something the kids should avoid.
Just a friendly remember that political correctness is bullshit & that women are fucking retarded
Nicholas Miller
Then I dont want blacks dressing as european princesses or white superheros.
Jaxson Baker
>Tumblr Feminists
Funny how the article doesn't mention slutwear as something the kids should avoid.
Samuel Torres
Yeah, I don't hear any Germans crying about the burgers putting on their lederhosen and drinking beer out of a boot. Also, German guy costumes certainly exist and tumbler doesn't seem to have anything to say about them.
Michael Sullivan
>You can't dress up as someone from another culture
Looks like little Spics and Niggers can't dress as knights or European style princesses
Tyler Powell
Native American is not a costume?
Indian is.
Justin Collins
>Daily Reminder from Tumblr
This is why we can't have nice things
Jason Jackson
can these extreme lefty media outlets just die already? seriously is there any way to stop this shit?
Thomas Bailey
Halloween is a European holiday. Only Europeans and people of European descent can participate. Do not culturally appropriate this holiday.
Asher Williams
David Edwards
Leo Stewart
It's the only way to win. If you start talking about how it should be offensive when asians dress up in lederhosen or dirndls then you're playing into their hands by agreeing that costumes can be offensive.
If you blatantly don't give a shit and ask what the big deal is, they have no clue what to say.
Ian Murphy
we shoot you niggers for looking at us sideways here.
Tyler Nguyen
Permitted costume.
David Perry
Just wait until the dueling "white children are racist for dressing up as Black Panther" and "white children are racist for NOT wanting to dress up as Black Panther" thinkpieces begin next month.
Joseph Taylor
i wish i could buy that game again, broken as it was
Asher Sullivan
this is an excellent bait image to use on kikes
Bentley Miller
If they list anything related to "day of the dead" as cultural appropriation, they're full of shit because all that got started in France as "Danse Macabre" way before the mexicans got it from the Spanish, who also got it from the French.
Grayson Collins
ROFL wat
Kevin Cook
>No cultural appropriation on Halloween
So non whites are gonna stop celebrating? The whole thing is Celtic paganism. Niggers get out.
Easton Phillips
My first costume as a little kid was a bear. I'd like to officially apologize to the gay community for taking part in bear culture without having taken a schlong up the ass.
David Parker
My first costume was a vampire. Did I culturally appropriate Romanian culture without realizing or do they not count because they're white?
this
Brandon Sullivan
Unless your a nigger then it's okay.
Blake Johnson
Bullllllshiiiiiiet.
My grandmother is full blooded and calls herself "Eskimo Grandma."
Anthony Lopez
kek - Very droll, user. We should roll this out ...
Aiden Watson
Was Red Skelton /ourguy/?
>made fun of drunks
>made fun of the mentality disabled
>made fun of the homeless
Ian Peterson
Sure wouldn’t want to be scary on Halloween.....I’m so sad
Jayden White
I want all non-white people to stop wearing Pants and T Shirts and Sneakers because they're appropriating white culture.
Kevin Gutierrez
wheres the ash tray ?