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Campaign against 'racist' Halloween costumes sparks debate
Toronto Sun ^ | October 27, 2011 | Sherry Noik

Posted on 10/27/2011 9:39:36 PM PDT by Keltik

Is it OK to dress as an Arab terrorist on Halloween? How about sporting blackface and going as a Jamaican?

A student group in Ohio says no and their campaign has re-ignited the discussion about racism and cultural stereotyping that seems to surface every year when people don costumes for the holiday.

The "We're a culture, not a costume" campaign, by Ohio University's Students Teaching About Racism in Society (STARS), features posters showing students of various ethnicities holding up photos of people dressed as corresponding stereotypical characters like a Geisha girl and a donkey-riding Mexican. The posters read: "This is not who I am, and this is not OK."

"During Halloween, we see offensive costumes. We don't like it, we don't appreciate it. We wanted to do a campaign about it saying, 'Hey, think about this. It's offensive,'" Sarah Williams, president of STARS, told CNN.

(Excerpt) Read more at torontosun.com ...


TOPICS: Education
KEYWORDS: arabterrorists; halloween; islamicterrorists
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1 posted on 10/27/2011 9:39:37 PM PDT by Keltik
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To: Keltik

is it ‘okay’ ? What we need permission to dress up for Halloween, now?


2 posted on 10/27/2011 9:41:15 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: Keltik

toronto makes nyc look like Texas.


3 posted on 10/27/2011 9:42:15 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (...then they came for the guitars, and we kicked their sorry faggot asses into the dust)
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4 posted on 10/27/2011 9:44:53 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: Beowulf9

They are currently creating a government costume panel that requires approval of your costume before going out in public ;)


5 posted on 10/27/2011 10:00:04 PM PDT by Trillian
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To: Keltik

No white guy holding up a picture of a cowboy?

Oh right - stereotypes only hurt/effect minorities.


6 posted on 10/27/2011 10:02:54 PM PDT by Tzimisce (Never forget that the American Revolution began when the British tried to disarm the colonists.)
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To: Keltik

Tell you what, I’ll dress like an Arab and the Atabs can dresss like Canadians.

We’ll celebrate Hallowe’en together.


7 posted on 10/27/2011 10:04:02 PM PDT by Jonty30
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To: Keltik
I was going to go a a witch but I might offend the wiccans.
I was going to dress up as a skeleton, but I might offend anorexics.
I was going to dress up as a policeman eating doughnuts, but that might be a crime of impersonation.
I was going to dress up as a fireman, but that could offend fireman.
I was thinking of wearing a mummy custom, but that might offend those Chicago voters who are life impaired.
I was thinking of dressing like a bitter clinger with a gun in one hand and Bible in the other - wait that's how I always dress.
8 posted on 10/27/2011 10:07:44 PM PDT by DaveyB (Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. -John Adams)
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"I was thinking of dressing like a bitter clinger with a gun in one hand and Bible in the other - wait that's how I always dress."

Clinging To Their Guns: Firearm Ownership Soars To Multi-Decade Highs

9 posted on 10/27/2011 10:13:18 PM PDT by blam
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To: Trillian
"They are currently creating a government costume panel that requires approval of your costume before going out in public ;)"

Lead by a costume czar who will make $275,000 a year...paid for by you.

10 posted on 10/27/2011 10:15:16 PM PDT by blam
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To: Keltik

Is dressing as Frankenstein offensive to Jewish people?


11 posted on 10/27/2011 10:16:15 PM PDT by LukeL (Barack Obama: Jimmy Carter 2 Electric Boogaloo)
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Is dressing as Frankenstein offensive to Jewish people?

It is offensive to Jewish people, those in the parts industry and to John Kerry.

12 posted on 10/27/2011 10:18:59 PM PDT by DaveyB (Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. -John Adams)
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To: Keltik

I’m dressing up as the guy on the Kahlua bottle.


13 posted on 10/27/2011 10:21:50 PM PDT by Lauren BaRecall (Boehner, you deal making THUG B@st@rd!)
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14 posted on 10/27/2011 10:37:08 PM PDT by Keltik ("The goal should not be diversity -- the goal must be Quality.")
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To: DaveyB
Nah - this is a John Kerry costume:


15 posted on 10/27/2011 10:37:27 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: LukeL
Prince Charles Says He’s Related to Dracula


16 posted on 10/27/2011 10:40:03 PM PDT by blam
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Well, Sarah Williams, I find you and STARS to be offensive.

You're all so unserious about real life, so lacking perspective, *this* is "the issue" you waste your time on. Not poverty, not civil rights, not abuses of government, not elder care, not health, not conservation, not crime prevention ... for you it's Halloween costumes!

I don't even like Halloween hype, never did a Halloween party as an adult and haven't donned a Halloween costume since about 6 yrs old. but even I realize it's just Halloween.

17 posted on 10/27/2011 10:41:53 PM PDT by newzjunkey (Republicans will find a way to reelected Obama.)
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To: Keltik

I’m thinking of going out dressed up as Sarah Williams, president of STARS, but I’m having a bit of a problem putting together a flaming a**hole costume.


18 posted on 10/27/2011 10:45:25 PM PDT by Stormdog (A rifle transforms one from subject to Citizen)
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To: Keltik
Zombie Emerges from World's Largest Pumpkin
19 posted on 10/27/2011 10:54:19 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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Ah, to be 21 again and know everything. And todays 21 yr old knows more about everything than us old people born before texting...try talking to them about Morse code.
20 posted on 10/27/2011 11:03:50 PM PDT by crazyhorse691 (Obama is just the symptom of what is destroying the U.S.)
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