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⌈ Secret Post #3952 ⌋

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Comments

Re: How do you feel about costume bans?

[(Anonymous)]

I still think it's either all "culture" based costumes should be off limits or none of them. No pick-and-choose.

Re: How do you feel about costume bans?

[(Anonymous)]

You'll take my Salmonella typhii costume away from me when you pry it out of my cold, dead hands.

Re: How do you feel about costume bans?

[cbrachyrhynchos]

I go for avian retrovirus on cell culture myself.

Re: How do you feel about costume bans?

[(Anonymous)]

As I said, ban none of them is equally fine by me. Go be the epidemic you always dreamed you could be!

Re: How do you feel about costume bans?

[(Anonymous)]

Why?

Re: How do you feel about costume bans?

[(Anonymous)]

Because who decides which culture is "oppressed enough" to warrant a ban on a connected costume? And does the ban apply to everyone equally or are there exceptions for people from certain cultures?

Re: How do you feel about costume bans?

[(Anonymous)]

So the problem with a costume ban is just that it's hard to lay down a hard-and-fast rule in advance for which costumes deserve to be banned?

Re: How do you feel about costume bans?

[(Anonymous)]

Not just in advance. In practice, it would come down to "why is this over there allowed and mine isn't" with an arbitrary choice made by the person in charge.

Re: How do you feel about costume bans?

[(Anonymous)]

Okay!

But you don't have a problem in principle with banning costumes because they're offensive? It's just that in practice there's no consistent way to make an equitable, useful rule for doing so?

Re: How do you feel about costume bans?

[(Anonymous)]

A costume being offensive is pretty subjective and often entirely intentional.
I'm generally against a ban (as long as a costume doesnt break any actual laws) but if you'd have to ban "culture" based costumes, I think it's all or nothing because everything else leads to iffy double standards. (Doesn't mean you can't call someone an assholes for a insensitive costume.)

Re: How do you feel about costume bans?

[(Anonymous)]

Maybe they all should be. I think I wouldn't be offended by someone dressing up as a German serving wench or whatever, and I have German heritage, but if not having that sort of "haha cultures are funny" costume also meant we didn't have the "haha lazy drunken mexicans" costumes, then yeah, it would be worth it! There are lots of other things to dress up as. Heck, nobody thinks blackface is okay anymore, but there was a time that was a "normal" halloween costume and omg, how dare you suggest it's racist.