I’m sure I’m as vulnerable to bias as anyone. And from what I can tell, “twat” in this thread was not used by someone “on my side”. But I’m fine with calling it out – that word probably falls into a similar category of little tiny (but still real) misogynystic slurs that contribute to an overall misogynystic culture and society as “slut”, and should not be used as a slur against women.
What was the other instance?
A real life black person’s skin is not a costume. You can dress like a person without changing your skin tone. Yes, it is wrong. Jesus Christ, this bitch has been making racist comments for years and y’all bend over backwards to make excuses and justify. Maybe, just maybe, stop giving the benefit of the doubt to racists.
There were two others that I saw. I didn’t bookmark them as I am not building a federal case.
Bit there are some very fine people who…nope, can’t do it.
Megyn Kelly gets to walk away free and clear with $69M and NBC made a public spectacle of fucking themselves. Everybody wins!
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May as well get ready then. It is coming.
Feel free to point them out to me, if you want. I’m happy to have the chance to try and become a better poster.
I’m more worried about myself, wondering if I was actually being singled out or not.
No need to be worried. We had a great discussion – positive thing all around, IMO.
You missed the point- if a white kid dresses up in a suit, how would anyone know he’s supposed to be Obama, and not say… Paul Ryan or if he greyed his hair as part of the costume, Mitch McConnell? The point of a good costume is to capture whatever it is that would indicate that you’re dressed up as THAT particular person. If you’re going to dress up as Jaime Lannister from Game of Thrones, you kind of need long blonde hair. And if you’re going to be President Obama, you kind of have to be black- it’s more or less what defines him visually (which is what costumes are about).
And where do you draw the line on that kind of thing? Is a white kid allowed to be John Shaft for halloween and wear an afro wig and mustache? (and hopefully not be mistaken for Gene Shalit)
By the same token, can a black kid wear a long blonde wig and be Legolas the elf?
You know elves aren’t a real race, right?
Get a buzz cut and wear an Obama/Biden campaign button?
They have these things called “masks” that don’t make it look as if you are part of a minstrel show.
Feel free to substitute any blonde person for Legolas. For the sake of argument, let’s say a black girl wanted to be Supergirl then.
My point is that it’s not inherently racist- intent matters here. It does carry a lot of historical baggage, but there’s nothing inherently racist about coloring one’s skin for the sake of a costume.
You know there are actual black people with blonde hair, right? Even when they are not wearing a costume?
African-Americans painting their faces white on Halloween(or any other time) without intent to offend-Does this happen often?
Conversely, there’s nothing wrong with Moana looking like she’s been spending too much time indoors.
Well you have to be tasteful, you have to find the right color shoe polish.
If the price for not being an insensitive asshole is having to rethink your Obama costume, I’m pretty okay with that.
Who dresses up as Obama for Halloween? Is this actually a thing? I mean, I know that there were a bunch of Fox News fans who were quaking at the knees that Obama was going to sell us out to the Taliban or ISIS or the Golden Horde or something and also steal all their guns and melt them down into chains to enslave all the white women, but he’s really not that terrifying to anyone with more that a tenuous grasp on reality. What happened to vampires, werewolves, and Frankenstein’s monster?
Also, there are 45 presidents now, and 44 of them are white, and some of them were actually not half-bad people and didn’t own slaves (well, Lincoln, Carter and Eisenhower, anyway…maybe Wilson and Roosevelt if you are willing to overlook certain attitudes and prejudices of the day). So having to put on blackface makeup to pretend to be a president is not really a thing. And really, if having to forego that one costume in the name of demonstrating some sensitivity to the history of minstrel shows is going to break America or ruin someone’s childhood, we must already be in pretty bad shape.
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