Poll: Students launch a poster campaign against racist costume
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Holy crap, those costumes are hilarious!
Oh yeah, this campaign is stupid. As someone else said, use this time, money and exceptional graphic artist to deal with REAL problems.
The only one missing was an Apple employee holding up a picture of a Zombie Steve Jobs costume...
Oh yeah, this campaign is stupid. As someone else said, use this time, money and exceptional graphic artist to deal with REAL problems.
The only one missing was an Apple employee holding up a picture of a Zombie Steve Jobs costume...
Yep, normal people wanting to be dressed up as minorities in the same way they want to dress up like Spiderman or Darth Vader or Vegeta is a terrible thing. They should go back to fearing and misunderstanding minorities instead of liking them enough to put themselves in their position right now!
Oh. My. God. I must be dreaming.
"The campaign, headlined 'We're a culture, not a costume', shows images of people of different ethnic groups holding up images partygoers whose costumes they say lampoon their cultures."
So the middle-eastern kid's culture centres around suicide bombing..? Huh, at least he's honest about it.
Seriously though, fuck 'em. "This is not who I am", screams the campaign poster. Oh? Then who the fuck are you to get offended and dictate whether or not I can dress like that for Halloween then? Because THAT is certainly fucking not okay; if it's not your culture, then you can just shut your mouth and stay out of it. If I want to dress up as the ghost of Osama bin Laden with a few tubes of paper painted red to look like sticks of TNT, then I fucking well will. And no bleeding-heart dickhead whinging about so-called 'racism' is going to stop me.
Besides, it's a Halloween costume for Christ's sake; if someone's offended by a cheap dress-up like that, then they can crawl off and die in a hole somewhere. Somewhere with someone who gives a shit about their crybaby ways.
I'm going back to bed. Bastards.
"The campaign, headlined 'We're a culture, not a costume', shows images of people of different ethnic groups holding up images partygoers whose costumes they say lampoon their cultures."
So the middle-eastern kid's culture centres around suicide bombing..? Huh, at least he's honest about it.
Seriously though, fuck 'em. "This is not who I am", screams the campaign poster. Oh? Then who the fuck are you to get offended and dictate whether or not I can dress like that for Halloween then? Because THAT is certainly fucking not okay; if it's not your culture, then you can just shut your mouth and stay out of it. If I want to dress up as the ghost of Osama bin Laden with a few tubes of paper painted red to look like sticks of TNT, then I fucking well will. And no bleeding-heart dickhead whinging about so-called 'racism' is going to stop me.
Besides, it's a Halloween costume for Christ's sake; if someone's offended by a cheap dress-up like that, then they can crawl off and die in a hole somewhere. Somewhere with someone who gives a shit about their crybaby ways.
I'm going back to bed. Bastards.
This Halloween I'm going as a whinging student with no sense of humour.
Seriously, do those kids get offended if someone dresses as a stereotype. It's like they saw the suicide bomber one, and thought - hey, that's too racially specific, we can't complain about that without complaining about the ghetto costume, or the mexican on a donkey. I'm Scottish, should I be offended at Scrooge McDuck?, or anyone wearing a kilt, because I don't actually wear a kilt, and that's not who I am man - that's not what I'm about, so I choose to be offended. All of these kids are portraying their own stereotypes, by being miserible, politically correct douchebags. Way to drain all the fun out of halloween, I'm off to carve some non-racially-specific-gender-unknown pumpkins.
I would love to go and protest their protest, maybe black up and do some ironic 70's jive talkin. Would you like that students?, 70's black guy with a porn moustache doing kung-fu moves all in your face?
No kiddies, you don't want that! - And they are all correct, they aren't the people shown in their posters, those people look like they're enjoying themselves.
Seriously, do those kids get offended if someone dresses as a stereotype. It's like they saw the suicide bomber one, and thought - hey, that's too racially specific, we can't complain about that without complaining about the ghetto costume, or the mexican on a donkey. I'm Scottish, should I be offended at Scrooge McDuck?, or anyone wearing a kilt, because I don't actually wear a kilt, and that's not who I am man - that's not what I'm about, so I choose to be offended. All of these kids are portraying their own stereotypes, by being miserible, politically correct douchebags. Way to drain all the fun out of halloween, I'm off to carve some non-racially-specific-gender-unknown pumpkins.
I would love to go and protest their protest, maybe black up and do some ironic 70's jive talkin. Would you like that students?, 70's black guy with a porn moustache doing kung-fu moves all in your face?
No kiddies, you don't want that! - And they are all correct, they aren't the people shown in their posters, those people look like they're enjoying themselves.
I just wanted to see the general opinion cause for some websites, people were saying "Yay, good on them for fighting racism."Penguinishka said:Frankly, it's dumb. I was mildly surprised there was a thread for it. Those are terrible costumes, as in tasteless and poorly made.
I can understand the message they were trying to get across, but it just gets bogged down with their poor examples and sad faces.
Also, I loved being a geisha for Halloween. My costume was 250% better than the example they used by the way. What are you trying to say University of Ohio? I'm not Asian so I can't be a geisha for Halloween?
I'll be whatever I wanna do!
Blows my mind really.
I won't dress as a suicide bomber as I don't want to get shot... They shot a Brazilian thinking he was a terrorist in London so with my heritage there is no chance.
I'm not offended but how far to go? If I painted my skin with boot polish and wore an afro wig, maybe as a minstrel, people would be saying "Damn thats racist".
I'm not offended but how far to go? If I painted my skin with boot polish and wore an afro wig, maybe as a minstrel, people would be saying "Damn thats racist".
Now that I'm seeing more of these, I'm leaning towards the 'this is dumb' party. Yes it's oh so mildly racist. Yeah it's crass. But it's not a case of serious racism. The Geisha one is probably the one I'm finding the worst in my opinion. The Bomber one is understandable but really? Dressing up in traditional clothing is racist? They're taking this racism thing a bit too far.
If I dress up as Pro-gamer, am I racist? I'm Korean by the way. I'd actually laugh if someone made that.
If I dress up as Pro-gamer, am I racist? I'm Korean by the way. I'd actually laugh if someone made that.
I agree with these kids! Proud races are mocked every year by this.. "Halloween"
I feel that this "Halloween" MUST. BE. ASSIMILATED!!
People take life too seriously,
Oh noes someone is dressing up as someone who obviously does not represent me, I am going to go be a dick about it until everyone stops having fun! /stupidity
Oh noes someone is dressing up as someone who obviously does not represent me, I am going to go be a dick about it until everyone stops having fun! /stupidity
To be honest, that costume is pretty offensive.
Halloween shouldn't be an excuse for white people to black up and pretend to be ghetto thugs... I mean there are white "gangstas" too, so if you want to dress in ghetto style for your Halloween costume you don't have to black up in order to do it.
If I wanted to dress as a Chinese character for Halloween, I don't think it would be permissible for me to paint my skin yellow, tape my eyes back and wear some prosthetic buck teeth too.
This is basically what these types of Halloween costumes amount to, but in most cases no sense or irony or awareness about how it can be perceived as racist to lampoon another cultures most basic physical features.
I can't say it's really racist.
Yeah it's a poor choice. People need to grow a skin.
I'm sorry, I was offended by your posters. Take them down. I was offended. Who are you to tell me whats okay and whats not?
I saw the bomber picture at first and thought, okay that might be close to crossing the line. Then I saw the rest and threw any reason for it being worthwhile away. A geisha? Really? That's offensive? Why don't we stop dressing up completely.
They need to use their time more productively. OR they're just trying to grab attention.
Yeah it's a poor choice. People need to grow a skin.
I'm sorry, I was offended by your posters. Take them down. I was offended. Who are you to tell me whats okay and whats not?
I saw the bomber picture at first and thought, okay that might be close to crossing the line. Then I saw the rest and threw any reason for it being worthwhile away. A geisha? Really? That's offensive? Why don't we stop dressing up completely.
They need to use their time more productively. OR they're just trying to grab attention.
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If you hate suicide bomber costumes, you should not laugh at Achmed the Dead Terrorist. And I dare you not to laugh at Achmed the Dead Terrorist (that is, the first time you see it before the countless amounts of people quote it and ringtones appear)
Freedom of Expression applies to everyone.
So if I want to go to a halloween party as a gollywog, I'm going to bloody well do it. Not because I'm racist, but because I read noddy books as a child, the theme is "childrens books", and Gollywog will probably get a few shock laughs.
Also, if anyone whinges about it, I'll point out that Freedom of Expression applies to everyone - I'm not directly opressing a black person by dressing as a banned childrens character, nor do I have any intention of doing so.
In short, because my halloween costume is not directly interfering with the right of ANYONE to live their life, I'm entitled to do it.
Incidentally, I found this quite funny:
http://gawker.com/5853150/anti+racist-halloween-ad-spawns-funny-meme
So if I want to go to a halloween party as a gollywog, I'm going to bloody well do it. Not because I'm racist, but because I read noddy books as a child, the theme is "childrens books", and Gollywog will probably get a few shock laughs.
Also, if anyone whinges about it, I'll point out that Freedom of Expression applies to everyone - I'm not directly opressing a black person by dressing as a banned childrens character, nor do I have any intention of doing so.
In short, because my halloween costume is not directly interfering with the right of ANYONE to live their life, I'm entitled to do it.
Incidentally, I found this quite funny:
http://gawker.com/5853150/anti+racist-halloween-ad-spawns-funny-meme