Can a white child dress as a Halloween character from another race?

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | October 30, 2017 | by Osamudia James, The Washington Post

[Kenton]

Can a white child dress as a Halloween character from another race? Sure, they can do anything they want. All they gotta do is claim their "white privilege". That's how I see it, anyway.

[Snickering Hound]

But there is absolutely nothing wrong with a black chick dressing up and playing a Viking in a movie...

[cyclotic]

I once dressed as a black guy, or a minstrel or something. I was about 12. I just remember that I really screwed up the costume. I got black face paint instead of brown.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

What if a white girl dressed up as Rachel Dolezal?

[IronJack]

Who says they can’t? The PC police? Come to my door and serve the warrant.

[IronJack]

the notion that white people are superior, but also that they are the baseline, the default, the standard in our society.

I would add that they are also the AUTHORS of our society. Without them, there would be no "our society." So yeah, they are the baseline, the default, and the standard by which others are judged. And that's been a pretty good thing for the last couple hundred years.

[sauropod]

Stick your “white supremacy” where the sun don’t shine

[bagster]

A white child can do anything they want.

White privilege.

Duh.

[ConservaTeen]

If Liz Warren can do it everyday, why not me? I’m going as a black Native American transexual liberal Asian. :-)

[Secret Agent Man]

Considering non-white kids dress as white characters all the time, I’d say HELL YES.

[anton]

Is she dressed as something?

[Brooklyn Attitude]

Lets make Halloween, annoy a liberal day. White people should dress their kid so as to cause leftists heads to explode and if some faggoty cry bully complains about it, PUNCH THEIR FACE. Remember, the more they complain the more we do what annoys them.

[clearcarbon]

"Can a white child dress as a Halloween character from another race?"

[dr_lew]

How about a grade schooler with AARON on a pinstripe jersey?

I’d have to say, not a “black character”, in the terms being put forward.

Anyway, ‘blackface’ was right out years ago, in the sixties.

[RipSawyer]

That woman has “African-American” features but she has pink skin and her hair is dyed blond. She should be imprisoned for life or 600 years, whichever is longest.

[RipSawyer]

She ain’t black, looks like fifty-fifty to me. Arrest her for impersonating a black person impersonating a white person.

[RipSawyer]

You used the correct term of transexual rather than the made up, incorrect term of transgender, you are guilty of correct language privilege and must be imprisoned and forced to watch the view continuously for three days.

[arthurus]

I would certainly hope and expect that such a white child would be arrested and remanded to Juvenile Court and charged with Cultural Appropriation.

[ConservaTeen]

The View for 3 days? That is cruel and unusual punishment for ANYONE!! (except Liberals)...

[Lurker]

Dear Howeveryournameispelled,

This year I’m wearing black face and a chicken bone necklace.

I hope you’re offended.

L