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• Anonymous

  Sorry, this made me laugh.  The first poster with the bomb strapped to the guys chest and the caption “we’re a culture” was too much.  

• Concerned

  Has our society really come down to this. None of these things are even remotely real images, they are charicatures. Have we become so overly sensitive that any mocking or fun gesture is racist. There are alot more important things to worry about. IITS INSANITY!!

• http://www.facebook.com/people/Jessica-Hicks/1409679161 Jessica Hicks

  OK, some of those posters I get (blackface, terrorist).  But come on!  You can’t wear a geisha costume?!  Come on!!  I doubt Germans would be offended if someone wore Leiderhosen as a Halloween costume.  Can I be a Hula dancer or is that offensive to native Hawaiians?  Was my friend offending Mexicans in her Frida Kahlo costume last year?  Give me a break.

• notlu01

  Way over sensitive. It’s one of the reasons the US is now a laughing stock. Other countries look at us and see a bunch of people that are more worried about what we dress up as for Halloween than the state of our economy. That’s why I believe in social Darwinism and think we should have fewer laws that protect stupid people from themselves. We’d have a lot fewer morons breeding even more morons if we allowed them to remove themselves from the gene pool earlier on.

• http://www.wordydoodles.com WordyDoodles

  Those students were brave to stand up for themselves. It’s not just about Halloween costumes but about what’s going on the other 364 days of the year that makes some people think this is just fine.

• http://twitter.com/KatjaNyquist Katja Nyquist

  There Halloween costume guys, there not real objects. It’s a one night think. Calm down. 

• http://mrefrem615.livejournal.com/ chris_i_am

  No don’t wear it!

• Ryan

  These are not racist(maybe an exception with the black-face).  Here’s my issue with this article: I see no generalization about any culture here. I see individual costumes, unless they walk around with a sign on that says “this is how all Asians, Mexicans or Middle-Easterners are”.   By these standards a cowboy costume is racist against Americans. Native Americans did really dress like that, as did Geisha’s.  It is called a COSTUME. Not a “THIS IS WHAT I THINK OF YOUR WHOLE CULTURE”!

• TheGnome

  Oh, give me a break. Why are you whining about this when there are people starving in Africa?
  In fact, why complain about anything? There’s always going to be something worse, right?

• TheGnome

  The amount of defensiveness in these posts is astounding. Methinks some people just want to get away with being offensive without being criticized for it…

• Allison

  Hahaha oh my gosh, the Middle Eastern guy and the Asian girl ones just killed me. Geeeeeez, some people are sensitive as hell. So okay, humour me, what about Heidi, Oktoberfest beer girl, vikings, milk maids, Tsarinas, Marie Antoinette, etc.? As a European, should I start taking that personally and assume people are making fun of my culture? Heidi, you culturally insensitive bitch!

• Ruthblagden

  WOW, people need to stop taking them selves too seriously !!!!!!!!

• Anonymous

  This is ridiculous. I am dressing as a stereotype for Halloween, FO SHO now.

  How many slutty-whatever costumes and women take it on the chin??? These p*ssies better lighten up. Stat.

• Milo

  Yeap definitely, over-sensitive got-nothing-better-to-do people; so now nobody can dress up as a twilight vampire, or as a samurai, I guess even getting a tan will be offensive to some  u.u

• Timannranger

  i was a “suicide bomber” five years ago.  my costume was way better.

• Ashley

  As a native american I find your comment and ignorance insulting and pitiful. My people did not dress like that costume up there. We also did not wear signs like the one the man is wearing. I would appreciate it if you would try to form an opinion again after you have educated yourself beyond the level of a hateful third grader.

• Boydecabana

  What a stupid PC overreaction! These kids need to find something really good to do with their time and stop worrying about Halloween costumes. I wasn’t going to do anything this year but now I think I will wear something they are campaigning against!

• Roy

  The Indian guy doesn’t look at all like a Native American.  He looks black.  I have a friend that is Native American and he looks kind of like a dark skinned Japanese.  Our wrestling coach even called him “Half Jap”.  LOL.

  Everyone lighten up.  A few laughs here and there make us all feel better.  It’s the crybaby brigade at it again, and we should be telling them to shut up, instead of being constantly intimidated by their complaints.

• Mosheed

   haha, oh the irony

• Mythomagica

  I am waiting to see a similar one with someone dressed up as Abe Lincoln, while some poor American lad is standing there sad-faced, proclaiming, “We’re a culture, not a costume” and “This is not who I am, this is not okay”.

  Hopefully that will be sufficient to illustrate how utterly ridiculous the idea behind these ads are. 

• Mike

  So, there has never been a Native American (unlike you I capitalized this in case putting it in lowercase might offend you) that wore feathers or face paint? Not one ever said “We want piece, not war”? Of all the Native Americans there were and are today, not one? Really? And even if no Native American ever looked even remotely like that, so what. Does that picture anywhere say they are trying to make fun of YOU or YOUR people? Could it be possible that they thought it would be cool to dress up that way or maybe that was the best costume they could think of? The problem is you immediately view someone else as being racist when it is actually you that is racist because all you can focus on is the color of skin or how someone looks. It is the very same with criticizing President Obama. If you criticize him, surely it can’t be because his policies are running and spending the country into the ground. You must be criticizing him because you don’t like black people. How childish, how very childish. It is people like you that are continuing to drive this country into a very sad place.

• Mike

  haha, i spelled piece like they did in the picture :-(

• http://pulse.yahoo.com/_6LWM3SZ2IFITC3FYRAUCABDW6E Kevin40

  I just don’t get it? It is Halloween, are you so insecure that you can’t handle it?  

• http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=703899946 Tj Goldstein

  poor kids… so very very traumatised by it all?? Seriously? Shouldn’t they be out in the world trying to stop their own ‘cultures’ perpetuating their own myths instead of being whiney brats with no sense of humour?

  :: sigh :: kids these days are just so precious and spoon fed.

  It’s about as stupid as the black student suing white students for dressing up as ‘gangstas’.. because it hurt her precious feelings!! I don’t see white kids suing black kids for dressing preppy… because it hurts their feelings?

  Honestly, only in the land of the great white stupids… America!

• http://pulse.yahoo.com/_HOQGFV5XBAXFUAUDM46XFYBJP4 J

  Alright–so speaking from a Chicano point of view here–maybe if our culture is so “offended” buy the guy with the costume depicting a man wearing a poncho and riding a donkey, the ACTUAL Latino in the pic shouldn’t be caricaturing HIMSELF by wearing a garish gold chain…

  I want all the western euro-descended folks in here to know that some of us actually have a sense of humor–but per the usual, a couple of whiners try and ruin the fun for everyone. (Full disclosure: I was totally a Red Army soldier a couple of years ago, so, you know, I want to apologize for offending any sympathizers from the Communist-Bloc nations of the latter 20th century. :P)

  Let’s get over ourselves, folks. My grandfather came to this country to gain a better life, the least of which included freedom of expression. Now, I can’t speak for my whole culture of course, but I have better things to worry about than white people wearing ponchos and sombreros. Costume on, gringos.

• Anonymous

  Your spelled piece like the picture because you’re so stupid & ignorant, the message from the guy in the picture flew right over your pea sized brain.

• Anonymous

  I hope you’ve included yourself in your moron breeding morons.

• Anonymous

  You might want to do some research on Hangyoku’s, Maiko’s, bonding, Okiya’s, Geisha’s & legal prostitution for a great many years, before giving an opinion on wearing a Geisha Costume.

• Mike

  Ahhh, name calling. Classic symptom of a lack of
  an intelligible argument. Why are you so angry? Why do you wake up every
  morning looking to be offended? I can’t imagine living in your world. What a
  sad, dark place to be in every day. You really are missing out on a lot that
  life has to offer. Good luck to you!

• Appygal42

  Get a sense of humor after all!  If we can’t poke fun at ourselves, we’re in deep doodoo!  Is our society becoming so PC that humor isn’t even allowed anymore?  Puhlleeezze!  Get over yourselves!

• http://pulse.yahoo.com/_332U26FJD75JZSB7NLUJBAFRJU Daniel

  omg bro im half mexican and i never get offended when people dress like pancho villa or a weetarded siesta dude. Yall need to man up and stop being offended over things that are suppose to be a fun way of dressing up and enjoying company. I got no respect for the man less POC dudes looking all serious looking like they gonna cry.

• http://pulse.yahoo.com/_2KKL5UCFTFVY45MYD6D2KRMOVY Liz

  It is important that racist, sexist comments are made every day.  It is another form of bullying.  I hear it everyday.  It wouldn’t hurt to be more sensitive to other peoples feelings.  I do take objection to the comment about the little girls outfit that shows the evacuation outfit.  The evacuation was a desperate attempt to save the children of London during the bombing by Germany.  They were evacuated to save their lives.  They wouldn’t have a yellow star on their coats.
  The children that had yellow stars were in Europe and they weren’t dressed as nicely.  The poor kids were stripped of their coats, had shorn hair, no shoes, no valuables and separated from their parents.  Even the babies.  They were starved, beaten and gassed.  Now that would be a highly offensive costume. We glorify through the media, we sanction through politics and condone through our silence.
  If these costumes offend, I respect that.  The comments made here are an indication that we have a long ways to go.

• Trod

  Ahahahaa! Awesome costumes! Great ideas for this year!