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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

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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.[/quote]

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

All the bolded. Main Character Syndrome and I'm more than sick of it. [/quote]
“ "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 [b]bad facial scars as an example of “so hideous it could only be a costume,[/b]” 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.[/quote]

It is literally the whole point of Halloween:

[u]"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."[/u][i][/quote]

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