Posted on 10/30/2017 4:06:29 AM PDT by Enlightened1
American Indian, opposite gender, Mexicans, and members of a certain religion are among the costumes some colleges do not want you to dress up as this Halloween.
Administrators or students at The College of New Jersey, Millersville University in Pennsylvania, and other institutions have issued warnings ahead of Halloween regarding the costumes people should wear.
“Although the intention may be innocent, the impact can often be damaging,” said Baldween Casseus, the student government vice president of diversity and inclusion at The College of New Jersey (TCNJ), in an email sent to the college community and obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation. “Some costumes perpetuate negative stereotypes on specific cultures, races, classes, genders, sexualities, and religions. As a community, we are continuously striving to create a more welcoming environment valuing inclusiveness, integrity, and self-reflection.”
David Muha, a spokesman for TCNJ, told TheDCNF that the university supported the message, saying that “being mindful of others is something the college actively promotes as part of trying to foster an inclusive community.”
Another vice president, this time a Millersville University administrator, chimed in with his own unsolicited precautions.
“Although these celebrations provide opportunities to socialize and positively impact those around us, Halloween is also a time when thoughtfulness and sensitivity can be forgotten, especially when selecting a costume,” said Brian Hazlett, the school’s student affairs and enrollment management vice president, to the school community. “It’s important to be mindful that making/buying/wearing a costume based on a culture different from our own has the potential to negatively impact the inclusive community we as an institution strive to maintain.”
Hazlett gave examples of war paint, turbans, feathered headdresses, and skin tone modifiers.
Maya Bingaman, a communications and marketing assistant at the University of Pittsburgh, Bradford, took a slightly more strident approach.
“Whether fall is the best season or not is debatable, but one debate that needs to be ended right now is whether certain Halloween costumes are culturally offensive or not,” said the assistant in a blog post on the school’s site.
Once again the self appointed dictators want to lecture to their students what is "offensive" for Halloween.
I just want to know who died and appointed them dictators?
If I was a student there I would go as a blackface-wearing Indian with a turban.
Wait, what? Now I CANT dress up as a dude?
I really need to get on the fax list to have “today’s libtard rules” sent to me each morning. I just can’t keep the current outrages straight. What’s okay today will be taboo tomorrow.
These people are mentally ill.
I hate Halloween and everything it stands for. Its history, its mock Traditions, it’s just the celebration of anti-Christianity .
If you’re going to dress up for Halloween why don’t you quit Faking It and just dress up how you would suspect evil would dress up or how you would interpret what evil would look like because Halloween is a celebration of evil. There is nothing nice about this sweet little Halloweenie trick or treaty affair that people seem to have been programmed, and seem to be programming their kids to find it acceptable.
Wait, what? Now I CANT dress up as a dude?
I really need to get on the fax list to have “today’s libtard rules” sent to me each morning.
That is the whole point. You are always to be kept on edge; not knowing if anything is “allowed”. It is part of the marxist reign of terror on your mind. The bottom line is for them to always let you know who is in control.
The counter-response to these Leftists is “Drop dead. I’ll decide what I want to do Not you”.
Exactly. This daily chaos is planned and deliberate. I’ll do what I want when I want.
I’ve tuned them out. Their opinion means less to me than the gum on the bottom of my shoe.
It’s OK kids. S&M, leather and latex are fine!
Wouldn’t it be fun to have a politically incorrect costumes only Halloween party?
My granddaughter is going trick and treating as Moana, one of the costumes causing controversy. I had my DNA done at Ancestry. com and it states I am 1% Polynesian so I figure that takes care of the cultural appropriation issue. So many people in this country have a little bit of almost every culture in their genetic makeup making this cultural appropriation argument worthless.
Haven’t dressed up for Halloween since I was 7-8 years old. Hate it. When kids come to the door I occasionally wear a bright orange jack o lantern tee shirt and/or a cowboy hat. I bought the t-shirt for a buck a day after Halloween to wear under my deer hunting clothes. Don’t want to wear white while hunting. The hat?......well it’s a hat I wear.
I’ve gone to a couple of Halloween parties at local bars. People would ask “who are you supposed to be”. I answer “me”.
But what if you identify as one of these???
She gave me a book, with the best of intentions, that listed dangerous sins, a different sin in each chapter, e.g. yoga, vegetarianism, tarot cards, Ouija boards, etc. I was overtly guilty of every sin in the book--had all those things in my house (which she had noticed).
Her church, which was very fundamentalist and puritanical, did not believe in Hallowe'en; so on Hallowe'en, they would have a party and all dress as angels.
I would suggest this to these universities; however (1) they would HATE the religious overtones and (2) they would LOVE to force everyone to wear the same costume, and I don't want to give them any ideas.
So lemme get this straight...
A man dressing up as and pretending to be a woman and capering around in the ladies' room is perfectly fine, normal, and, in fact, the mere thought of questioning such a thing raises suspicions of sexism, about 5 other "-isms" and a baker's dozen of "-phobias".....
But, a man dressing up as and pretending to be a woman for Halloween, is offensive.
Got it.
A burqa and a bomb vest- TOO scary!
:-) heh. I see what you did there.
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