NPR: stop appropriating scars for your Halloween costume

[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?

We get it. You don't have compassion or interest in other perspectives. You don't care if something you do is insensitive.

The whole point of many of these perspectives is to alert people like you that what you deem "non harmful" may not be considered "non harmful" by others.

But you just go ahead and keep walking around with your head up your butt.

[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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And here you are, OP, getting all offended about an article that, if you actually read and comprehend the message, is nothing to get this upset about. Simply food for thought.

You sound like another MAGA idiot. "Appropriating" doesn't even apply here. Moron.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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?

We get it. You don't have compassion or interest in other perspectives. You don't care if something you do is insensitive.

The whole point of many of these perspectives is to alert people like you that what you deem "non harmful" may not be considered "non harmful" by others.

But you just go ahead and keep walking around with your head up your butt.

I know quite a few fundamentalist Christians who would agree with you that Halloween should basically be abolished. They want us all to sit around praying all day. You want us to sit around going "ahh... poor thing!" all day. Both of you have a very strong desire to police the behavior of others.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?

We get it. You don't have compassion or interest in other perspectives. You don't care if something you do is insensitive.

The whole point of many of these perspectives is to alert people like you that what you deem "non harmful" may not be considered "non harmful" by others.

But you just go ahead and keep walking around with your head up your butt.

I know quite a few fundamentalist Christians who would agree with you that Halloween should basically be abolished. They want us all to sit around praying all day. You want us to sit around going "ahh... poor thing!" all day. Both of you have a very strong desire to police the behavior of others.

Yes and until they start getting governments to ban things then they are allowed to not participate and can state their opposition.

But maybe you don't believe in free speech.

[Anonymous]

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

My kids’ MCPS school canceled it starting in 2021 due to equity.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?

We get it. You don't have compassion or interest in other perspectives. You don't care if something you do is insensitive.

The whole point of many of these perspectives is to alert people like you that what you deem "non harmful" may not be considered "non harmful" by others.

But you just go ahead and keep walking around with your head up your butt.

I know quite a few fundamentalist Christians who would agree with you that Halloween should basically be abolished. They want us all to sit around praying all day. You want us to sit around going "ahh... poor thing!" all day. Both of you have a very strong desire to police the behavior of others.

Someone help me out here, it’s not a gish gallop. What’s the logical fallacy this pp is using in arguing a point the nested pp didn’t make? Is this a straw man?

[Anonymous]

Straw man, yes. Ridiculous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

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?

We get it. You don't have compassion or interest in other perspectives. You don't care if something you do is insensitive.

The whole point of many of these perspectives is to alert people like you that what you deem "non harmful" may not be considered "non harmful" by others.

But you just go ahead and keep walking around with your head up your butt.

I know quite a few fundamentalist Christians who would agree with you that Halloween should basically be abolished. They want us all to sit around praying all day. You want us to sit around going "ahh... poor thing!" all day. Both of you have a very strong desire to police the behavior of others.

Yes and until they start getting governments to ban things then they are allowed to not participate and can state their opposition.

But maybe you don't believe in free speech.

I don't believe NPR should promote the religion of "ahh poor thing!" and not other religions. I wish they would just report the news and not preach the good news of diversity thy kingdom come

[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

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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.

“ "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.

It is literally the whole point of Halloween:

"Traditionally, the idea of Halloween coming from the Christian and Celtic holidays, there's an element of the dead coming out of their graves," Cole said. "So, if somebody goes to the trouble of dressing as a decomposing body, that's in the spirit of what the holiday was intended to be."[i]

[Anonymous]

I'm really not clear where this culture policing ends...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If someone dresses up like zombie Trump, will MAGAs be traumatized?

No. We already see zombie Biden everyday.

BOOM!!

[Anonymous]

In wonder, Auggie says he loves Halloween because he can put on a mask and cover his facial deformity for the day. I don't recall if he comments on costumes with scars and how he feels about them. Does anyone?

[Anonymous]

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

Great, giving them ideas. Thanks for nothing.

[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

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

And here you are, OP, getting all offended about an article that, if you actually read and comprehend the message, is nothing to get this upset about. Simply food for thought.

You sound like another MAGA idiot. "Appropriating" doesn't even apply here. Moron.

It's refreshing for me to come here and be called a MAGA idiot when I'm normally called a libt@rd in real life.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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

My kids’ MCPS school canceled it starting in 2021 due to equity.

Abolishing Halloween is the true work of Satan.