Is it OK for a white kid to dress up as Moana for Halloween? ...

www.courierpress.com ^ | Updated 5:01 p.m. CT Oct. 23, 2017 | Alia E. Dastagir

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Is it OK for a white kid to dress up as Moana for Halloween? ...

Of course it is. It's also fine for a black kid or a brown kid or any other kid to dress up as Moana for Halloween. It's also fine for all of us to use the Hindu-Arabic numbering system even though the Arabs "culturally appropriated" it from the Hindus and we're "culturally appropriating" it from them. It's also fine for all of us to study geometry and algebra even though though they were developed and named by the Greeks and Arabs, and it's also fine for all of us to use the Internet, automobiles, smart phones and all of the other artifacts of European and American civilization.

What left-wing loons call "cultural appropriation" is what the rest of us call socialization and learning. It's pretty much what has driven human civilization throughout its history.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Is it OK for a white kid to dress up as Moana for Halloween? ...

Of course it is. It's also fine for a black kid or a brown kid or any other kid to dress up as Moana for Halloween. It's also fine for all of us to use the Hindu-Arabic numbering system even though the Arabs "culturally appropriated" it from the Hindus and we're "culturally appropriating" it from them. It's also fine for all of us to study geometry and algebra even though though they were developed and named by the Greeks and Arabs, and it's also fine for all of us to use the Internet, automobiles, smart phones and all of the other artifacts of European and American civilization.

What left-wing loons call "cultural appropriation" is what the rest of us call socialization and learning. It's pretty much what has driven human civilization throughout its history.

[Political Junkie Too]

Congresswoman from Florida.

-PJ

[PROCON]

NO BIGOTED CHILDREN!!

[BitWielder1]

Is "Cultural Appropriation" an actual crime, on the books, anywhere?
Or is it, as I suspect, a completely made up offense, by the Left, who feign outrage at every little thing, while they themselves aim to be as outrageous as possible, deliberately breaking every old fashioned rule.

[lee martell]

That’s a good question.
For a 5 y/o, choosing gender and choosing a costume can be close to the same thing; ‘Something I wear today, based on something I feel today.’

[Yaelle]

This is where I officially lose it. My daughter almost was going to be Moana for Halloween. Do these SJWs realize what they are saying, and how (not hyperbole but literally) Nazi-like they sound? Follow me:

Moana is Hawaiian, or Pacific Islander. So I am assuming that she is a hero character to people who have Pacific Island genes, if you will, so those little girls can dress as her in homage.

My daughter has every race in her EXCEPT Pacific Islander or Asian. Though she does have Native North American genes. Does that pass? What about the folks who crossed the Bering Straits? Because if that is enough genetic material to dress as Moana for Halloween, then all Mexican ancestry little girls can do it, but the little blonde girl is out of luck.

Please explain how this is any different than what happened to my dad when he was a little boy in Nazi Germany, having Jewish genetics so he was not allowed to go to school or parks for Aryan kids.

The focus on race will cost us all our freedoms. And eventually get us killed.

[Yaelle]

You may still be in dat costume.

[Political Junkie Too]

I had a girl show up at my door last year dressed as Ellen DeGeneres.

-PJ

[Yaelle]

Can’t stop laughing! Stolen.

[Red Badger]

The irony of the situation is lost on them.

They see themselves as the guardian of all that is pure and good, just as the Nazis did.

Political Correctness is just another way of saying Racial Purity.............

[NEMDF]

My blonde, blue-eyed 6-year-old granddaughter is going to be Mulan, who seems to be Asian.

Seems like all Disney characters should be fair game for Halloween costumes, IMHO.

[originalbuckeye]

’ offendsensitive’

I read that as OFFENSITIVE. I think we have coined a new word for the SJWs!

[Red Badger]

It’s a made-up, left-tard, social just-us warrior, meaningless, feel-good, self-righteous, perturbation of logic kinda word....................

[stylecouncilor]

My 5 year old is also going as Moana. I asked her months ago what she wanted to be and Disney gladly took our money for the costume.

[miserare]

Good luck! Actually, everyone is always in a good mood at the Hospital on Halloween. many of the personnel dress up. They,re on a sugar rush from all the goodies. So, all in all, it’s a good day to have surgery!

[rktman]

How do you know it was a girl?

[spintreebob]

As an adult, I don’t want any kid to dress up as an adult and appropriate my adultness.

[miserare]

My granddaughter actually does have Pacific Islander genes, along with Ashkenazi Jew,Irish, German, Czech, and Caribbean mulatto! I guess she can be anything she wants! She’s going with Crazy Cat Lady! My daughter is making her costume...a stuffed 1940’s house dress, hair in big pink rollers, raggedy jacket with little cat beanies sewn on. I suppose she might offend the real crazy cat ladies, but they never answer the door anyway.😟😇😜😹

[rlmorel]