The offensive offended on Halloween

As Halloween draws nigh and boys and girls across North America prepare to go trick-or-treating, they face a huge dilemma: what costume to wear that won't offend some a**hole looking for anything to be offended over.

These annoying and chronically miserable scum crumpets are upset over what they refer to as 'cultural appropriation,' or the adoption of the elements of one culture by members of another culture, particularly by men of white privilege.

Colleges across the country are cracking down on what they see as "offensive costumes" and are actually hosting panel discussions to tell students what they need to avoid wearing so as not to offend an easily offended a**hole.

Humboldt State University, known for being lightly selective in the students acceptance (they'll accept 75 percent of anyone who wants to go there) plans to host a discussion Monday on how "cultures are disregarded, mocked, or simply dehumanized" by Halloween costumes, and are encouraging students to avoid "cultural appropriation" in their costume selections. 

The panel will speak only English in spite of the school's diverse population and comfort with their native languages. 

The men on the panel will be wearing trousers, in spite of the fact that the oldest known trousers were discovered at the Yanghai cemetery in Turpan, Xinjang, western China dated between the 13th and 10th centuries BC.

Some of the women on the panel may be wearing skirts, in spite of the fact that the first skirt, a straw-woven number, dates back to 3,900 BC and discovered in Armenia. It is not known if the women on the panel are Armenian, but I'll get my investigator, Vinny Boombots, to check on that ASAP. This is important because the first leather shoes also originated in Armenia and it's expected many on the panel will be wearing a pair.

Other schools, such as Michigan State University, Oregon State University and the University of Colorado at Boulder, will host similar discussions on how they interpret "cultural appropriation." Afterward, there will be a "Civil War Statue Destroying Contest" and an evening flag-burning vigil to celebrate  the NFL's 'heroes.'

The new rule for schools at Halloween will be:

If the costume doesn't reflect who you are, don't wear it--you're going to offend someone who isn't an old white guy. In other words, your costume should be the clothes you normally wear, but you'd better be Armenian or Chinese if you don't want to go naked.

It's totally understandable how a white person wearing 'black face' would be offensive. But somehow it's less offensive in today's culture wars, for a black person to be wearing 'white face.'

The real problem, as I see it, is the self-loathing white liberals have for their race, their culture, and even the country. There used to be a time when the only thing we worried about with Halloween was what to do with all that candy.

Now we worry about offending the chronically offended.

PLEASE NOTE: There was a video posted here that I didn't properly review about 'white face.' It turns out that it was quite vulgar and I personally found it offensive. Fot that, I apologize to anyone who might have viewed it. Sorry.


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