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Moms are freaking out that ‘Moana’ costume is ‘cultural appropriation’
New York Post ^ | October 16, 2017 | Jane Ridley

Posted on 10/22/2017 9:30:32 AM PDT by Simon Green

The scariest thing this Halloween for New York moms isn’t zombies or ghouls — it’s 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 daughter’s 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 family’s island from famine and destruction — and succeeds.

In the end, Feris’s 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 don’t 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 ...


TOPICS: Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: disney; dizzydames; halloween; handwringers; moana
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To: windcliff

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61 posted on 10/22/2017 12:00:12 PM PDT by stylecouncilor ("The future ain't what it used to be." Yogi Berra)
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To: dragonblustar
My kids are dressing up as liberals..... but to anyone who asks, they are zombies.
Bob Hope You mean like Democrats?

62 posted on 10/22/2017 1:51:53 PM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (Presses can be 'associated,' or presses can be independent. Demand independent presses.)
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To: Simon Green

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!)

/s


63 posted on 10/22/2017 2:34:16 PM PDT by BwanaNdege ("The church ... is not the master or the servant of the state, but the conscience" - Luther)
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To: 4Liberty

Thanks, great stuff for the whinners of first world//

Thanks!

Great realities for first world liberals and never Trumpsters.


64 posted on 10/22/2017 2:49:15 PM PDT by Grampa Dave ( Trump is kicking their a$$es, they, ______________, want to quit. (Fill in the blank!))
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To: Bonemaker

Og sue.


65 posted on 10/22/2017 3:07:20 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult
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To: taterjay

“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.


66 posted on 10/22/2017 3:10:38 PM PDT by oldvirginian (The older i get the less i care what people think of me, therefore the more i enjoy life.)
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To: Simon Green
It's very simple, white people:

If you does as another culture, you're racist.
If you refuse to dress as another culture, you're racist.

67 posted on 10/22/2017 3:13:57 PM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: oldvirginian

Secular Puritans have the haunting fear someone, somewhere might have liberty. A twist of the Mencken quote concerning Puritans.


68 posted on 10/22/2017 3:23:49 PM PDT by taterjay
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To: Simon Green

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, ......


70 posted on 10/22/2017 5:51:43 PM PDT by Paal Gulli
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To: Simon Green

Advances of civilization are built on “cultural appropriations” take use the good and dicard the BS.


71 posted on 10/22/2017 6:02:57 PM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: Simon Green

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.


72 posted on 10/23/2017 9:34:10 AM PDT by Toughluck_freeper
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To: PROCON

LOL!


73 posted on 10/23/2017 9:37:43 AM PDT by nutmeg
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To: 4Liberty

ROTFL!


74 posted on 10/23/2017 9:39:25 AM PDT by nutmeg
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

I got a rock ...

75 posted on 10/23/2017 9:41:26 AM PDT by BlueLancer (ANTIFA - The new and improved SturmAbteilung)
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To: Simon Green

Sachi Feris sounds like a nail-biting, hand-ringing, pearl-clutching idiot.


76 posted on 10/23/2017 9:48:23 AM PDT by windsorknot
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To: windsorknot

The “w” is silent.


77 posted on 10/23/2017 10:07:35 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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