I think we need a Halloween where everyone *does* dress like someone from a different culture or of a different race. I'd love to see what African-Americans think makes them look white. Could be good for a lot of laughs and would probably put this nonsense away for good.
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I think anyone who celebrates Halloween who isn't a full-blood Celt is guilty of cultural appropriation and should be ashamed of themselves
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But I'm not a fan of costumes clearly intended to stereotype & make fun of entire demographics. Things get more complicated there. Is a "Pimps & Hos" theme racist? Even if most US sex workers are white? How abt Poor White Trash? (I'd say classist, still really not a fan)
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Always a good time of year to reread Erika Christakis' email to the student at Yale:https://www.thefire.org/email-from-erika-christakis-dressing-yourselves-email-to-silliman-college-yale-students-on-halloween-costumes/ …
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Reading (or maybe rereading?) her infamous email now, it's still amazing to me that THIS is what led a segment of Yale students to claim they'd been harmed & made to feel unsafe. YALE students. Part of one of the planet's MOST privileged clubs.
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To me the Yale student reaction seemed like a moral auto-immune disorder. I thought Nicholas was an amazing example of patience and goodwill. That did not stop the mob from punishing him.
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I think I am going to rate these spasms of Wokeness by how many of my favorite woke-isms/SJWisms that the author manages to squeeze into one tweet.pic.twitter.com/xr75jqeLyd
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She's making massive assumptions and APPROPRIATING the potential opinions and attitudes of all non-whites in order to appear virtuous and morally superior. The utter hypocrisy is biblical and she and her ilk don't even appear to realise it.
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I once asked a Muslim convert mediator from a MOOC on Islam who disapproved of "cultural misappropriation" (sic) what he thought of Masai people wearing Real Madrid shirts: he did not respond.
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Isn’t it weird that Americans treat Halloween as a fancy dress party these days, rather than a celebration of all things spooky? Has someone appropriated their culture and replaced it with inanity? :)
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Read the pushback--hilarious. I'm beginning to feel slightly hopeful regarding the Culture War. This crap needs to be mercilessly mocked.
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I sincerely hope you're correct. I've noticed a shift in recent times myself.. here's hoping it continues.
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Hope does not come readily to me; one of my constant temptations is to despair. Nevertheless, I'm encouraged by what I see happening.
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When I returned to the US after teaching in Japan, my coworkers gave me a yukata, so I wore it to a grad school party...where people told me that was appropriation. I figured that my Japanese coworkers wanted me to do something other than keep it boxed up all the time....
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It's only still noteworthy insofar as there are still many people out there scared that committing - or being accused of - "cultural appropriation" might negatively impact their jobs, grades, etc. (I'm chagrined to admit that I was one of them not so long ago.)
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It is child-like. Hysteria is virtually unassailable when it hides behind virtue
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I believe I am free to appropriate from other cultures. I thought the whole idea of mixing cultures is to allow them to blend, pick all the best bits and pull them into your own life to improve it, or what is the point? The UK appropriated tea and curry :)
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Multiculturalism / cultural appropriation. They have to pick one.
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