Halloween costume PC rules: Good idea or[expletive removed]?

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Yes the rebel flag argument isn't pertinent here.

There shouldn't really be any insignia displayed by a public office other than:
Stars and stripes
State flag
Badge/Insignia of office
Or equivalents of above

Such principles used to be well understood before the cold war.

It is really not a complicated thing to understand and nothing to do with banning people from displaying a flag which is still legal to do. It is not illegal to fly an ISIS flag.

Even though cops in New Jersey got a man to take down what they thought was an ISIS flag but actually wasn't however he could have used the First Amendment (even if it was an ISIS flag).

I think it's just use your own judgement.


The PC parade is bull lol. You can work out if someone might find it a funny costume or not and if you do offend someone it's not the end of the world, you'll learn lol.

We have bigger issues.

I've dressed as all sorts of things, though I do put effort into researching my costumes prior to wearing them so they'll be as authentic as possible. I've dressed as a Sioux, a male air force officer, medieval warrior, Gothic Lolita, etc. Halloween is the one night we get to be something that we're not, or for others it's the one night to truly be yourself.
If we're going to get so nit-picky about controlling what people wear, then no one can wear anything because every single culture has been influenced by other cultures.

It's like a bunch of people on Tumblr aruging that dressing up like the character Garnet from Steven Universe is blackface, even though Garnet is a stone. A garnet. Not black. It's getting insane how far these people will go. Soon people won't be able to dress up like Lapis because of some inane reasoning. And just because I have Irish heritage doesn't mean I was raised in an Irish culture, so if I were to dress Irish, I'm sure someone would find offense to that as well (although it seems perfectly fine to belittle and mock "white" cultures - if certain people even admit white people *have* cultures).

It boils down to, don't be a jerk. Be respectful. But please, do not try to segregate humanity to its own little corners of the world. If someone dressing up like an autistic person might help them understand us better, then good. If not, oh well, they probably will never understand us then.

It's like children. My kids were being noisy and I noticed like usual the younger was imitating everything the older said and did.
We as humans are an imitating species. It's in our blood, our instincts. It's inherent in many species as a way to learn. We can't condemn people for wanting to imitate. We can condemn people for being jerks full of hate.

Children imitate all sorts of things. Things that fascinate, things they love, people they look up to. If a child wants to dress up like a native American, then it should be used as an opportunity to teach, not condemn.

I wonder if anybody would be offended if I went out costumed as a deer dressed as a hunter in orange cap, hunting jacket, waders and [fake] rifle?

One year I wanted to go out as Joon from the movie Benny & Joon but I lived in the wrong area to be her because it was too cold outside and my costume wouldn't have kept me warm. I wonder if this would have been so offensive to people with mental illnesses and autism if I did go as her?

Or what if someone went as Sam, that might have been offensive to other aspies and people who have dyslexia and learning disabilities.

Or someone dresses up as Cal Hockley, that would be so offensive for women or someone goes out wearing a Titanic ship, that would be so offensive to the survivor families or someone goes out as Rain Man, that would be so offensive to the autistic people.

I find all this Halloween costume PC crap absurd.

But if someone went out as Hitler or as the KKK, that might be a different story. But if someone went out as Ted Bundy, people might not bat an eye for it. Someone might want to go out as a baddie that was real than fictional.

I thought Halloween was supposed to be a bit outré to begin with, what happened? people lost track of what it was for.

Just let kids be kids, fer crimony's sake! If parents feel they should monitor what costumes their kids are wearing for the sake of decency or respecting someone else' feelings, then they should do their jobs and be parents.

I'm no fan of the PC patrol. Too many of them thrive on conflict at the expense of progress.

Having said that, they have a legit beef when it comes to dressing like racial stereotypes and LGBT caricatures.

However, I'm calling BS on the whole superhero/cowboy/disney princess thing.

Kids with CP are Superman fans. I didn't burn my comics when I acquired my spinal cord injury and Chris Evans doesn't leave crying children when he visits hospitals as Captain America.

I live just a few miles from Judge Parker's Court and Indian Country. Around here, most of the actual Native Americans wear stetsons, blue jeans and boots.

And, while parents might take a bit of heat for letting their daughters watch too many disney movies, I don't see a 4 year old dressed as the little mermaid offending anyone...

I think most of this is CULTURE WAR horses**t cooked up by the likes of Limbaugh and Beck to stir the rednecks up.