Posted on 10/22/2017 9:30:32 AM PDT by Simon Green
The scariest thing this Halloween for New York moms isnt zombies or ghouls its politically incorrect costumes.
An article on raceconscious.org by Sachi Feris has been making the rounds on mommy Facebook groups. Feris writes that her 5-year-old daughter declared she wanted to be Polynesian Disney character Moana, which she worried would be cultural appropriation.
Her daughters other choice: Scandinavian Queen Elsa from the Disney movie Frozen.
I had some reservations regarding both costume choices about cultural appropriation and the power/privilege carried by Whiteness, and about Whiteness and standards of beauty, she wrote.
Feris went on to describe a series of conversations with her daughter, particularly focusing on the ethics of dressing as Moana, who as a teen sets out on a treacherous sea journey to save her familys island from famine and destruction and succeeds.
In the end, Feriss daughter decided to dress as Elsa though Feris was concerned it might teach her short-haired brunette daughter that one must be white, blue-eyed and have long flaxen hair to be a beautiful princess.
But she nixed the Moana costume for Mickey Mouse, because, as Ferris wrote, we dont have to worry about making fun of anyone or dressing up as a culture different from our own because Mickey Mouse is a pretend mouse!
One thing is for sure, our discussions around appropriate and inappropriate Halloween costumes will continue, concluded Feris.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
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Bob Hope You mean like Democrats?
YOU MUST have heroes ONLY from your own culture!
If you admire or wish to emulate any aspect of another culture then you are guilty of CULTURAL APPROPRIATION!
(Booo, hiss, hiss!)
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Thanks, great stuff for the whinners of first world//
Thanks!
Great realities for first world liberals and never Trumpsters.
Og sue.
“I am beginning to call liberals Secular Puritans. They are the .... in the Punchbowl.”
Secular Puritans, I like that.
It fits the mentality perfectly.
And the punch bowl...quite right.
Or the nugget that won’t go no matter how many times you flush.
If you does as another culture, you're racist.
If you refuse to dress as another culture, you're racist.
Secular Puritans have the haunting fear someone, somewhere might have liberty. A twist of the Mencken quote concerning Puritans.
Bill Bowerman created Nike shoes from whole cloth. Literally. And some rubber, and a waffle iron.
And Bill Bowerman is white.
Therefore every athlete, gang-banger and hip-hopper who isn’t white but is dressed in Nike sneakers is guilty of cultural appropriation.
And Levi Strauss invented blue jeans. And Strauss was a Jew, therefore, if you’re a goy wearing jeans, ......
Advances of civilization are built on “cultural appropriations” take use the good and dicard the BS.
Racists Moms.
To say that ‘Cultural appropriation’ is bad is completely backwards, it is good and should be encouraged.
I believe the term was invented to divide the population into small segregated and easily controlled and influenced groups. It reminds me of Flash Gordon, with all the little kingdoms and cultures set against one another by Emperor Ming.
What makes America strong is that it is a ‘melting pot’ of different cultures, I understand that to be the absorption of cultural traits of the various cultural groups that come to America, and their integration into our culture and society, mixing it all up into one big united culture.
So anyone complaining about cultural appropriation is a backwards racist and those that embrace it is a true American.
LOL!
ROTFL!
I got a rock ...
Sachi Feris sounds like a nail-biting, hand-ringing, pearl-clutching idiot.
The “w” is silent.
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