With Halloween coming, lets just define what is Cultural Appropriation

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My kids will wear whatever they want. Everyone else can shut up and deal with it. That is all.

I like you.

Me too!

[Anonymous]

While we're at it, can we proactively address the ridiculous question: "When is trick or treating this year?"

It's always on Halloween.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kids will wear whatever they want. Everyone else can shut up and deal with it. That is all.

The problem isn't really people "shutting up" about it. But sure, dress your child in racially insensitive costumes. That's a great look...

If a black child wears a Batman costume would you consider that racially insensitive? Let's be honest....no costume is ACTUALLY racially insensitive. That is just made up hysteria.

Please go back to your planned/gated community in Ashburn or somewhere equally as awful.

Np: Well, that’s kind and not at all judgmental.
- signed someone from an even further out planned/gated community.

+1
-signed someone who lives in DC but doesn't look down on people who live in suburbs

+1. And life is wonderful here in Ashburn.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If y'all are that damn scared of being on the wrong end of political correctness then why don't you just stick with traditional Halloween costumes - ghosts and witches and vampires. Far less likelihood that someone will take offense. Don't want your toddler in something scary? Fine, put em in a pumpkin outfit (so cute, love those) or dress them up as an animal or a robot or doctor or an astronaut. My personal non-offensive favorite - Darth Vader. Beauty of Lord Vader is that you can't tell who's underneath the mask so anybody and everybody can rock that costume. Point is, it's not as hard to stay away from potentially controversial costumes as y'all seem to think.

Uhhh, accusations of racist portrayal have swirled around “Darth Vader.”

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kids will wear whatever they want. Everyone else can shut up and deal with it. That is all.

The problem isn't really people "shutting up" about it. But sure, dress your child in racially insensitive costumes. That's a great look...

If a black child wears a Batman costume would you consider that racially insensitive? Let's be honest....no costume is ACTUALLY racially insensitive. That is just made up hysteria.

Please go back to your planned/gated community in Ashburn or somewhere equally as awful.

Np: Well, that’s kind and not at all judgmental.
- signed someone from an even further out planned/gated community.

+1
-signed someone who lives in DC but doesn't look down on people who live in suburbs

+1. And life is wonderful here in Ashburn.

Why?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kids will wear whatever they want. Everyone else can shut up and deal with it. That is all.

Yeah! I completely agree.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:While we're at it, can we proactively address the ridiculous question: "When is trick or treating this year?"

It's always on Halloween.

Agree and I don't give a damn which day of the week it falls. Don't bring your brats unless it's actually Halloween! Oct. 31, 2019 is on a THURSDAY! So,don't come on Friday, Nov.1!!!!!!!!!!

[Anonymous]

Please, a case of Hershey bars to a dcumer who'll dress as a typical dcumer . What would that involve? I want to speak to your manager/Karen trope? A mom in yoga pants? God forbid, a mom in now out of fashion over the knee boots with skinny jeans?

[Anonymous]

As long as a kid isn't going in blackface - whatever. Everyone else can shut up and deal.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:To me, one can dress up as an actual person - Geronimo or Obama or RBG or Trump or Jose Andres or Miguel from Coco. But, one can not dress up like a generic category of people - Native American, White Person, Black Person, Spanish Person, Gay Person - because to do that is invoking stereotypes and other generalizations.

What DC hipster kid named Bear or Linus has parents forcing him to dress like Jose Andres?

This just might be the most DCUM-iest post on DCUM ever.

Question: how does a kid dress up like Jose Andres beyond a chef coat?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To me, one can dress up as an actual person - Geronimo or Obama or RBG or Trump or Jose Andres or Miguel from Coco. But, one can not dress up like a generic category of people - Native American, White Person, Black Person, Spanish Person, Gay Person - because to do that is invoking stereotypes and other generalizations.

What DC hipster kid named Bear or Linus has parents forcing him to dress like Jose Andres?

This just might be the most DCUM-iest post on DCUM ever.

Question: how does a kid dress up like Jose Andres beyond a chef coat?

You could take a sharpie and write Jose Andres in cursive on the chef coat (I've seen him wear a coat embroidered like that), and give him some kind of food or kitchen implement prop. Maybe add a chef hat?

[Anonymous]

Interesting how Disney is central to this discussion. Lots of other ways to engage in cultural appropriation no doubt but maybe we could all just do without Disney.

[Anonymous]

I find it very offensive when non-Celts celebrate Halloween. Not sure why everyone thinks it's okay to appropriate a holiday meant to honor saints and the dead.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To me, one can dress up as an actual person - Geronimo or Obama or RBG or Trump or Jose Andres or Miguel from Coco. But, one can not dress up like a generic category of people - Native American, White Person, Black Person, Spanish Person, Gay Person - because to do that is invoking stereotypes and other generalizations.

What DC hipster kid named Bear or Linus has parents forcing him to dress like Jose Andres?

This just might be the most DCUM-iest post on DCUM ever.

Question: how does a kid dress up like Jose Andres beyond a chef coat?

You could take a sharpie and write Jose Andres in cursive on the chef coat (I've seen him wear a coat embroidered like that), and give him some kind of food or kitchen implement prop. Maybe add a chef hat?

Bring a poster cutout of Puerto Rico and have Jose feed it constantly. The man is a saint.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If y'all are that damn scared of being on the wrong end of political correctness then why don't you just stick with traditional Halloween costumes - ghosts and witches and vampires. Far less likelihood that someone will take offense. Don't want your toddler in something scary? Fine, put em in a pumpkin outfit (so cute, love those) or dress them up as an animal or a robot or doctor or an astronaut. My personal non-offensive favorite - Darth Vader. Beauty of Lord Vader is that you can't tell who's underneath the mask so anybody and everybody can rock that costume. Point is, it's not as hard to stay away from potentially controversial costumes as y'all seem to think.

Solid advice here.