I'd be uneasy raising a kid in a society where kids are only allowed to dress up as characters of their own race.http://www.cosmopolitan.com/lifestyle/a13069023/moana-halloween-costume-racist/ …
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Replying to @Noahpinion
Counterpoint: any US kid can dress up as a European knight, bc most US kids get plenty of info from ppl of Euro descent, abt how to think...
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Replying to @csilverandgold @Noahpinion
Abt knights. And it isn't going to change how kids think about Europeans-as-a-whole. Idk that the same is true when the costume...
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Comes from a minority group, you know? I'd be uncomfortable with a kid's whole idea of Pacific Islanders coming from outside that culture.
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I'm pretty sure 5-year-old me didn't understand knights any better than he'd have understood fantasy-Polynesian culture from watching Moana.
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And I think telling white kids they can't identify with Moana defeats half the point of Moana...
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Can't we find some way for white kids to get less racist without tokenizing and flattening other people's cultures?
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