NPR: stop appropriating scars for your Halloween costume

[Anonymous]

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This is not about scars, but I have a neighbor who has many Halloween decorations in the yard. One is a man hanging (yes, by a rope around the neck) from a tree. It's dressed as a pirate so I suppose it's okay. What do you think DCUM?

I think it is fine. It is Halloween. Halloween is supposed to be fun. People need to stop sucking the joy out of everything.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
This is not about scars, but I have a neighbor who has many Halloween decorations in the yard. One is a man hanging (yes, by a rope around the neck) from a tree. It's dressed as a pirate so I suppose it's okay. What do you think DCUM?

I think it is fine. It is Halloween. Halloween is supposed to be fun. People need to stop sucking the joy out of everything.

PP is probably the thread OP and is annoyed that people have been thoughtful and not rage baity. Hence his attempt to try and rage bait about effigies in trees.

[Anonymous]

First funding that should be cut.

It’s ridiculous we are 34 trillion in debt . 2 plus more trillion this year and this is the kind of crap being borrowed to fund. It shows a total lack of discipline in our government and scaring bond holders.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
This is not about scars, but I have a neighbor who has many Halloween decorations in the yard. One is a man hanging (yes, by a rope around the neck) from a tree. It's dressed as a pirate so I suppose it's okay. What do you think DCUM?

I think it is fine. It is Halloween. Halloween is supposed to be fun. People need to stop sucking the joy out of everything.

PP is probably the thread OP and is annoyed that people have been thoughtful and not rage baity. Hence his attempt to try and rage bait about effigies in trees.

OP here. That wasn't my post. I was looking for confirmation that the world hasn't lost its collective kind, and largely got it.

NPR recently had an article about the "vanilla girl" aesthetic and how its racist. I don't agree with that, but after reading it and reading about the vanilla girl aesthetic, I put together some Meghan Markle looking racist outfits.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sorry Harry Potter, you’ve been cancelled.

That's an NPR wet dream.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:
This is not about scars, but I have a neighbor who has many Halloween decorations in the yard. One is a man hanging (yes, by a rope around the neck) from a tree. It's dressed as a pirate so I suppose it's okay. What do you think DCUM?

Many people have these now. I think they’re dumb, but I think over the top Halloween decorations are dumb.

The hanging plague doctor is big right now. Why are we hanging plague doctors?

[Anonymous]

Wondering when we will have to cancel Halloween for being too scary and discriminatory against people with PTSD and anxiety?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Beyond beyond parody at this point.

+100
Might as well have come from the Onion.

Did you guys actually read it? It doesn't sound like it. It's just a story about an activist with a facial scar who wants people to think about sending the message that facial scars are "scary". I appreciate getting new perspectives.

Some of you people are the real whiny. "On no, don't make me think...I want to just continue running around being an insensitive jerk..."

I am not sure “appropriation” is the correct term here. Most did not intentionally develop scars to be offended by others imitating them without doing the work. I see the point of being upset when scars similar to theirs are used to look repulsive or scary.

The article didn’t use the word “appropriation” and neither did the PP, so why are you using one of the GOP’s favorite anger bait words?

And you could have just read the article. That’s pretty much what the woman said: some of us have real scars, it’s demoralizing for people with scars to see others use scars as something hideous.

I was responding to the word “appropriate” in the title of this thread.

You are fighting the wrong side, ffs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:
This is not about scars, but I have a neighbor who has many Halloween decorations in the yard. One is a man hanging (yes, by a rope around the neck) from a tree. It's dressed as a pirate so I suppose it's okay. What do you think DCUM?

Many people have these now. I think they’re dumb, but I think over the top Halloween decorations are dumb.

The hanging plague doctor is big right now. Why are we hanging plague doctors?

Pent up Covid lock down resentment.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
This is not about scars, but I have a neighbor who has many Halloween decorations in the yard. One is a man hanging (yes, by a rope around the neck) from a tree. It's dressed as a pirate so I suppose it's okay. What do you think DCUM?

I think it is fine. It is Halloween. Halloween is supposed to be fun. People need to stop sucking the joy out of everything.

PP is probably the thread OP and is annoyed that people have been thoughtful and not rage baity. Hence his attempt to try and rage bait about effigies in trees.

OP here. That wasn't my post. I was looking for confirmation that the world hasn't lost its collective kind, and largely got it.

NPR recently had an article about the "vanilla girl" aesthetic and how its racist. I don't agree with that, but after reading it and reading about the vanilla girl aesthetic, I put together some Meghan Markle looking racist outfits.

Can someone translate this? I don’t understand how any of these words go together. Thanks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
This is not about scars, but I have a neighbor who has many Halloween decorations in the yard. One is a man hanging (yes, by a rope around the neck) from a tree. It's dressed as a pirate so I suppose it's okay. What do you think DCUM?

Many people have these now. I think they’re dumb, but I think over the top Halloween decorations are dumb.

The hanging plague doctor is big right now. Why are we hanging plague doctors?

Until I saw this, I didn't know what it was called and I didn't know what a plague doctor was!
Good heavens, it's Halloween and who gives a hanging bat!!!!!

[Anonymous]

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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.

And yet here you are, outraged over a fake outrage that is by your own reckoning a non-issue.

[Anonymous]

Halloween, carnival etc are days to reverse the social order and make fun of things. Parody, satire, lampooning are part of the human spirit. It seems really sad to do away with a very non harmful part of the human experience. FWIW don't know a lot of scar masks that are to make fun of people who are disfigured. Some scary and non scary pop figures are scarred...I can think of very few honestly who are incredibly disfigured? Should we also go after witches with big noses and warts, because some people have big noses and warts?

[Anonymous]

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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.

Yes I feel like Emily Wokerson would love these kind of articles

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Halloween, carnival etc are days to reverse the social order and make fun of things. Parody, satire, lampooning are part of the human spirit. It seems really sad to do away with a very non harmful part of the human experience. FWIW don't know a lot of scar masks that are to make fun of people who are disfigured. Some scary and non scary pop figures are scarred...I can think of very few honestly who are incredibly disfigured? Should we also go after witches with big noses and warts, because some people have big noses and warts?

I mean, come on. It was a person sharing her human experience and reaction to constantly seeing disfiguring facial scars used as signals of evil and scariness and ugliness. Would you argue to her in person that her reaction is not valid and she should keep her thoughts to herself? Would you have the courage of your convictions to do that?

Do you also get upset about teal pumpkins?

You all with your fake outrage are probably also the same ones who gnash on about 1st Amendment rights to free speech. You probably think it's a travesty the "r" word is no longer considered appropriate to use as an insult. This person is using her free speech to speak out about her own feelings about her lived experience and asking people to think more carefully about what they choose to dress as. Take her thoughts into account, or don't. Get back to us when the feds come in to ban the use of fake facial scars for costumes.