NPR: stop appropriating scars for your Halloween costume

[Anonymous]

New topic to be offended by: fake scars for Halloween. It's offensive to have fake scars bc it appropriates the having-scars community.
https://www.npr.org/2023/10/27/1208753439/should-my-halloween-costume-include-a-fake-scar-this-activist-says-no

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[Anonymous]

You might want to read the whole article before you post. You’re misrepresenting what was said by NPR.

The thing I like best about NPR is they do a piece by talking to different people, and then not telling the listener how to think or feel.

[Anonymous]

Okay, she maybe had a point before Harry Potter.

[Anonymous]

^ exactly. They talk to two different people and give two different perspectives and then just end the article.

I guess you can go to other new sites and never read or learn anything new or any other new perspective. That's your prerogative to be limited

[Anonymous]

I have scars. I don't mind if other people wear scars as costumes. Who doesn't have scars?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
New topic to be offended by: fake scars for Halloween. It's offensive to have fake scars bc it appropriates the having-scars community.
https://www.npr.org/2023/10/27/1208753439/should-my-halloween-costume-include-a-fake-scar-this-activist-says-no

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It’s getting ridiculous out there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have scars. I don't mind if other people wear scars as costumes. Who doesn't have scars?

Did you read the article? They’re talking about people whose scars are facial disfigurements.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You might want to read the whole article before you post. You’re misrepresenting what was said by NPR.

The thing I like best about NPR is they do a piece by talking to different people, and then not telling the listener how to think or feel.

Ehh. That NPR even bothers to have this kind of false equivalency conversation tells you how shallow and meaningless they have become. It's all virtue signaling uptight people looking for things to be outraged about and try to convince other people to feel bad.

Whenever someone says they listen to NPR my estimation of their intelligence drops enormously.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
New topic to be offended by: fake scars for Halloween. It's offensive to have fake scars bc it appropriates the having-scars community.
https://www.npr.org/2023/10/27/1208753439/should-my-halloween-costume-include-a-fake-scar-this-activist-says-no

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Must be terrible having a news organization cover all sorts of different opinions. How dare they do a three minute listen on a person who has feelings about her facial scar.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
New topic to be offended by: fake scars for Halloween. It's offensive to have fake scars bc it appropriates the having-scars community.
https://www.npr.org/2023/10/27/1208753439/should-my-halloween-costume-include-a-fake-scar-this-activist-says-no

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Must be terrible having a news organization cover all sorts of different opinions. How dare they do a three minute listen on a person who has feelings about her facial scar.

Its supposed to be journalism. The community of people who look at Halloween costumes and think that the fake scars are mocking them is vanishingly small. NPR is generating fake outrage about a non-issue for clicks. NPR is a pathetic shell of its former self.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
New topic to be offended by: fake scars for Halloween. It's offensive to have fake scars bc it appropriates the having-scars community.
https://www.npr.org/2023/10/27/1208753439/should-my-halloween-costume-include-a-fake-scar-this-activist-says-no

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Must be terrible having a news organization cover all sorts of different opinions. How dare they do a three minute listen on a person who has feelings about her facial scar.

Its supposed to be journalism. The community of people who look at Halloween costumes and think that the fake scars are mocking them is vanishingly small. NPR is generating fake outrage about a non-issue for clicks. NPR is a pathetic shell of its former self.

All the bolded. Main Character Syndrome and I'm more than sick of it.

[Anonymous]

Beyond beyond parody at this point.

[Anonymous]

I appreciate learning how something I took for granted might be offending someone whose perspective I had not considered.

Think of all of the things that the majority used to joke about, that we now realize was not okay.

If you are not moved by such information, don’t adjust your behavior.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:
New topic to be offended by: fake scars for Halloween. It's offensive to have fake scars bc it appropriates the having-scars community.
https://www.npr.org/2023/10/27/1208753439/should-my-halloween-costume-include-a-fake-scar-this-activist-says-no

They need your donations to continue this hard hitting journalism. Get your tote bag now.

Must be terrible having a news organization cover all sorts of different opinions. How dare they do a three minute listen on a person who has feelings about her facial scar.

Its supposed to be journalism. The community of people who look at Halloween costumes and think that the fake scars are mocking them is vanishingly small. NPR is generating fake outrage about a non-issue for clicks. NPR is a pathetic shell of its former self.

All the bolded. Main Character Syndrome and I'm more than sick of it.

“ "For someone to don a scar for a night and say, 'Isn't this scary? I would never want to look like this.' They can take that off at the end of the night," Swift said. "Someone with a facial difference is going to be living with that forever."

She says that people who wear scars as costumes are "largely entirely innocent," and she has had conversations with friends who "simply didn't know until I brought it up."”

If you don’t have even a touch of empathy for the fact that people use bad facial scars as an example of “so hideous it could only be a costume,” you might not be a good person.

Is this a huge deal? No. Is NPR or anyone else making this a huge deal? No. Is it a thing to think about? Yeah, sure could be. That of you don’t want to reflect on your decisions, ever, and that you’re certain that whatever you want to do is fun and positive with no downsides is far greater “I’m the main character energy” than this twenty something.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have scars. I don't mind if other people wear scars as costumes. Who doesn't have scars?

I have disfiguring scars. We need to get a grip on why people wear costumes a very few times a year. We've limited them so much, we are missing the entire, anthropological social custom point of them.