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Editor @AreoMagazine Secular, liberal humanist. Mother. Doglover. Writing book about epistemology & ethics on the academic left Helen.pluckrose@areomagazine.com

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    Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Oct 23

    Helen Pluckrose Retweeted Kirsten Powers

    Is anyone upset or has this just stopped being amusing? This lunacy became a funny meme a few years ago and has been a tired one for the last couple.https://twitter.com/KirstenPowers/status/1054824232444743681 …

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    Kirsten PowersVerified account @KirstenPowers
    Dear white people who are upset that you can't dress up as another race or culture for Halloween: your feelings don't matter. The only feelings that matter are of those who feel disrespected/mocked by you appropriating their culture for entertainment. Show some common decency.
    1:50 PM - 23 Oct 2018
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      2. Randy McGregor‏ @Ramcgreg Oct 23
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        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.

        4 replies 3 retweets 20 likes
      3. Ben Pobjie‏Verified account @benpobjie Oct 23
        Replying to @Ramcgreg @IonaItalia @HPluckrose

        I think anyone who celebrates Halloween who isn't a full-blood Celt is guilty of cultural appropriation and should be ashamed of themselves

        0 replies 1 retweet 5 likes
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      2. PDX Selina‏ @SelinaDavis73 Oct 23
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        PDX Selina Retweeted PDX Selina

        https://twitter.com/SelinaDavis73/status/1054842017522507776?s=19 …

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        PDX Selina @SelinaDavis73
        Replying to @KirstenPowers
        My daughter was Spiderman at 5, Little Mermaid at 6, Cleo DeNile from Monster High at 11, & Voldemort at 12, among others. Let kids have fun dressing up & let 'em be Moana if they want. Don't make fun of another culture & avoid anything in ambit of blackface, & you shd be good.
        1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
      3. PDX Selina‏ @SelinaDavis73 Oct 23
        Replying to @SelinaDavis73 @HPluckrose

        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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      4. Original Thinker‏ @PianoTunerBear Oct 23
        Replying to @SelinaDavis73 @HPluckrose

        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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      5. PDX Selina‏ @SelinaDavis73 Oct 23
        Replying to @PianoTunerBear @HPluckrose

        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. 🤦‍♀️https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/05/the-peril-of-writing-a-provocative-email-at-yale/484418/ …

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      6. Original Thinker‏ @PianoTunerBear Oct 24
        Replying to @SelinaDavis73 @HPluckrose

        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.

        0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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      1. MENoone‏ @MENoone5 Oct 23
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        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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      1. David Whyte‏ @Soulstorm99 Oct 23
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        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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      1. Dermot O'Sullivan‏ @derryborndo Oct 23
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        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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      1. Spent rent  🔰 🇮🇸 🇱🇮 🇳🇴 🇨🇭‏ @Land_Liberty Oct 23
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        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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      2. cps‏ @ROMANREB Oct 23
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        Read the pushback--hilarious. I'm beginning to feel slightly hopeful regarding the Culture War. This crap needs to be mercilessly mocked.

        1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
      3. David Whyte‏ @Soulstorm99 Oct 23
        Replying to @ROMANREB @HPluckrose

        I sincerely hope you're correct. I've noticed a shift in recent times myself.. here's hoping it continues.

        1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
      4. cps‏ @ROMANREB Oct 23
        Replying to @Soulstorm99 @HPluckrose

        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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      1. Jessie L. Mannisto‏ @jlmannisto Oct 23
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        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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      1. Dan Driskill‏ @driskilldanny Oct 23
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        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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      1. Ally Cinnamon‏ @allycinnamon76 Oct 23
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        And...that's plenty.pic.twitter.com/LylmdaYLy5

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      1. Murray Walters‏ @Imm_listening Oct 23
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        It is child-like. Hysteria is virtually unassailable when it hides behind virtue

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      2. Warren‏ @warrenleggatt Oct 23
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        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 :)

        1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
      3. Nocturnal‏ @Nocturnal_biped Oct 24
        Replying to @warrenleggatt @HPluckrose

        Multiculturalism / cultural appropriation. They have to pick one.

        0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
      4. End of conversation

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