There has been a lot of change in the world.
A younger generation used to volunteer for war, and then ran towards the guns.
The children and grandchildren of those who survived were reared on slap-down slogans: Youngsters developed to the tune of “That’s life,” “Tough stuff,” “Because I said so,” “You don’t have to like it,” and a three-syllable saying involving excrement’s inevitability.
Today — seemingly — life must be equitable, nothing should be tough, you’re the one who gets to say so, and it has to be something you like.
For the other, California is nostalgically dark brown.
San Francisco poop map. pic.twitter.com/MB06FsNZyE
— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) April 17, 2019
Michigan State University gave advice to students recently about Halloween attire, in light of our more relaxed time.
Not long ago, the holiday was a free-for-all — costumes were constrained only by celebrants’ creativity.
But these days, per the college’s Office for Inclusion and Intercultural Initiatives, sensitivity must reign supreme.
Dennis Martell, the Health Promotion Director took the opportunity to give a lesson.
Online article “Costume Selection Matters” laid it out:
Halloween is more than just ghouls, goblins or ghosts for many of our invisible and visible identities. Although Halloween is celebrated as an occasion to wear costumes and enjoy spooky traditions, some people mistake it for a place where they are more likely to be racists, sexists, insensitive or biased.
“Halloween can be an opportunity to creatively dress and decorate,” the piece permitted, “but experts say it’s important to consider how costumes that portray specific groups of people in demeaning ways — as criminals, hyper-sexualized and/or grotesque caricatures — can perpetuate harmful stereotypes.”
All hail the experts — director Dennis dunked via alley-oop:
“Misrepresentation and acts to dehumanize others have long been a way for certain groups to exercise racial superiority.”
Everyone was reminded by the writer to not wear costumes that reference these:
- Pandemic victims
- Black Face
- Holocaust victims
- Cultural stereotypes
- Body-shaming, objectification
- Islamophobia
- Transphobia
- Mental illness
- Sexual harassment
- Homelessness
- National tragedies
This list was created by Dr. Genyne Royal, Student Success Initiatives Assistant.
“[C]ostumes can elicit trauma if they poke fun at the experiences of historical harm, bigotry or displacement,” the paper posed.
Jabbar Bennett, vice president and chief diversity officer, concurred.
“Historically, members of racial and ethnic, as well as sexual and gender minority communities, have been ridiculed and portrayed as deviant, lazy, sub-human and unintelligent. When people dress in costumes that portray such negative images, it gives credence to these stereotypes.”
Amid the discussion came something curious: Though our modern-day delicateness is light-years from the past’s weather-worn ways, there’s still a call to the high stakes of yore.
In fact, it appears, there’s no difference between contemporary crimes of crassness — AKA having on gauche getups — and those bullets braved by the Greatest Generation.
Dennis reacted to a shocking fact.
“When we dehumanize others, we position ourselves to justify and accept other forms of violence such as sexual assault and murder.”
Indeed — don’t be the type of pro-murder monster who’d ever dress as a cultural stereotype; resist the urge to revel in rape like someone who’d harken to a hobo for Halloween.
Furthermore, MSU’s Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion associate director — Eduardo Olivo — axed appropriation:
“Someone’s culture should not be someone else’s costume.”
Seconded by a senior member of the School of Criminal Justice:
“Cultures are not costumes; marginalized people carry the hardships coming with their identities every day of the calendar, and cannot simply shed our identities after Halloween night. My peers should reflect on what a costume signifies and consists of to make wise decisions about dressing up.”
Halloween is officially over.
Our migration towards a moratorium to masquerading under any other name than ourselves may continue us deeper into the sea of cultural revolution.
Enlightenment is our sails’ wind; wokeness is the boat built to carry us out.
Ships are now commonplace
And as I’ve previously pointed out: If you need more proof society’s stakes have substantially changed, consider a college’s approach to pummeling the profound perils of present-day prejudice…
University Teaches Pulverized Pupils to Rumble With Racism – by Taking Naps
https://t.co/PktBBCSqfh— RedState (@RedState) February 28, 2021
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