Cultural appropriation

[Devil'sAdvocate]

All "cultures" are merely appropriations to begin with, a sombrero was just an appropriation of a hat invented by another culture before it.

[donttread]

Wow, now Halloween is a target, if you wear a sombrero, you are turning a culture and that is "offensive" WTF?

For ages, americans have dressed as whatever you could imagine, no more! This PC SJW warrior crap has gone to far, where will it stop! Who will stop it?
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/31/u...-costumes.html

Of all the half baked utlra lib ideas going around this one may be the silliest of all.
The very history of mankind IS the history of cultural appropriation! To the point where the general public thinks things like dreadlocks ( matted unwashed clumbs of hair as far as I can see) came from a culture that actually "appropriated them" from another culture!
Are we to suppose that when cultures interacted they didn't borrow items and customs that worked from one another? How stupid would that be? "We won't use this wheel because we didn't invent it" LOL
Now I'm going to try to find a sombraro before Tuesday simply because of this ill informed backlash. Cultural appropriation, perhaps the dumbest ultra lib "cause" yet! But I have faith they will find something even dumber to champion!

[Trish]

Our country is $#@!ed if these kids are our future leaders. Their answer to promoting diversity is by claiming any type of reference via through dress up is being culturally insensitive and inappropriate.

I guess we can thank these kids for creating a whole new level of political correctness. I just feel shocked and sad that these are Americans. What a bunch of $#@!.

[Kacper]

I'd sorta would like to see at least one link to that story..............

This is not a new phenomenon. I am old as dirt I was wasn't allowed to enter the door of a church for a community Halloween party when I was 5 or 6 when visiting a relative that holiday in an area where people didn't trick or treat door to door until I turned my train robber outfit into a cowboy or sheriff outfit or removed any semblance of a costume at all instead.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/phil-...b_6006222.html

https://www.csmonitor.com/2005/1031/p02s01-ussc.html

[midcan5]

Sunny days offend some people, you can't please everyone. I'm hoping to see Donnie John Trump and instead of answering your trick or treat query, he claims the fifth amendment.

But seriously many religious have complained about Halloween forever it seems. Ask a teacher, the religious are the most intolerant. Oh and another thought, we had a religious family who wouldn't allow their children to trick or treat, but one son would come to our house dressed normally and we'd always joke with him and give him extra candy.

[donttread]

Our country is $#@!ed if these kids are our future leaders. Their answer to promoting diversity is by claiming any type of reference via through dress up is being culturally insensitive and inappropriate.

I guess we can thank these kids for creating a whole new level of political correctness. I just feel shocked and sad that these are Americans. What a bunch of $#@!.

People thought the same thing in the 60's until the hippies grew up and entered the work force and the real world and got less crazy and less ultra lib.