Anti defamation league what?
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Rightguide
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The ADL wants less freedom.
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Someone must have told him there were lots of people dressing up as a fat, no-neck communist satrap and he panicked.
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I hope he enjoys the smell of sulfur as he rots in hell for eternity.
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He wasn't a communist. He was a "21 century socialist!"
I would like a total separate adult Halloween...I'd take raunchy Snowwhite and the seven dwarfs in a heartbeat.
One of the dwarfs should be named "Sleazy."
Why? What is their rationale? And what is the context of this rumor (or did you make it up?)
Maybe I ought to dress as a Princess just to spite them. Ohh, but then I'll be transgendered, and that will just piss off the OTHER set of extremists. Sheesh, you can't win these days. Maybe I'll just do it the old fashioned way and don a white sheet and go dressed as a ghost. Wait, no; they'll probably think I'm dressing as a KKK member, then.
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And now he's a good "21st Century socialist."
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Sure enough, the outrage is almost entirely manufactured:
https://www.adl.org/education/resou...n-the-goblins-ghosts-and-stereotypes-come-out
(tl;dr: It just advises parents to be wary of culturally insensitive costumes like Native American headdresses, and encourages them to avoid steering their kids in the direction of gender stereotypes if that's not what the kids really want.)
https://www.adl.org/education/resou...n-the-goblins-ghosts-and-stereotypes-come-out
(tl;dr: It just advises parents to be wary of culturally insensitive costumes like Native American headdresses, and encourages them to avoid steering their kids in the direction of gender stereotypes if that's not what the kids really want.)
Makes a certain sense. I mean, what would you think of a white parent who allowed or encouraged a child to go as a blackface minstrel-show character?
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In 1949, my school had a Commonwealth Day, although most parents and teachers still called it Empire Day.
The pupils were given specific countries to represent and ideas for costumes. Why one girl was a Japanese Geisha? I don't know.
But as for me? A blackface Coon Singer with flashy sequinned waistcoat, blackface, and white lips. I was supposed to represent the USA but why? It hadn't been part of the Commonwealth (or Empire) since 1776. Other pupils represented countries that were never British-run. I still have, but will not post, a picture of the assembled school in their costumes. All the pupils were white - in 1949. Not now. At least half the school roll are various shades and their parents or grandparents are immigrants since 1949.
Even then I was embarrassed to be a coon singer, and even more so when I had to sing 'Mammy' to the school and parents.
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No it wasn't. All races of Americans participated ion it, back when we were strong enough to take a joke. Then you pussies came along.
"Cultural imperialism" in the sense of an American custom copied in other countries, like children playing cowboy. Certainly Venezuela had no native tradition of Halloween or trick-or-treating.
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Neither did the UK. Halloween was for ghost-hunting and telling ghost stories, and for children - bobbing for apples in a bucket of water. Our main celebration was Nov 5th - Guy Fawkes Day.
Somehow, that's even creepier.
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