I went to the OP’s tumblr, just to see if she had learned anything. Goodness, talk about an explosion of privilege.“Take note white people: Leave any “costumes” regarding culture, race, ethnicity, and/or color at the shop. Do not buy.”
Can someone please explain to me how it’s okay to have a racism rant while being far more directly racist yourself than the person you’re bitching about? I am white and I find that shit offensive.
This girl was innocently celebrating a culture with a humorous costume - in the same way someone might wear a beret and stripey jumper to a French themed party or drink tea with their little finger poking up for an English tea party. These things are all caricatures of a reality - none of us actually believe, unless we truly are intellectually vacant, that it’s how the people of certain cultures really are.
I hate racism as much as the next person, but I hate this double-edged, hypocritical ‘positive discrimination’ bullshit even more. It’s not okay to hate on white people either. I’m white, I’m English, and as happens I don’t really like tea and I think this girl looks fucking cute.
Goodnight.
I’m Elyse Jane, I held a Mexican themed party recently
Dress from Princess Polly- $55
Lace up shoes from Target- $32
Sombrero from Party Hut- $15
Fake facial hair from Junk Shop- $2.
Coolest outfit i’ve ever worn.
Submitted by spooninglove
The fact that you’re wearing a sombero and a mustache overshadows the cuteness of your dress.
Take note white people: Leave any “costumes” regarding culture, race, ethnicity, and/or color at the shop. Do not buy.
I have a mexican son. and I’ve had to sit with him and talk to him about what this outfit means. because he is going to group up into a mexican man. he’s going to grow up into a man that people don’t think of as human—who think of as a “humorous” stereotype or as a raping illegal. And he has seen this costume. This costume is everywhere during holloween. People at his school wore an outfit like this. With the ugly sombrero that makes him ashamed of his own real sombrero. And I had to go and have “educational” talks with the principle and the teacher and students and explain that that mustache that is so funny is what what his *loved* ones wear. and it *hurts* and is *shaming* to see people take something you love about somebody you love and turn it into a funny joke. It hurts and is shaming to know that if you decide to grow a mustache when you are older, people will think of the “humerous” joke and make fun of you. It hurts and is shaming to know that you can’t claim a part of your heritage and culture—a part of your LIFe without figuring out some way to *not be that*.
reblogged for HOTT commentary.
Thank you to bunnehears for the takedown here.
@beerflavorednipples As a white person, you don’t actually get to decide what’s racist and what’s not. I’m
not particularlysorry, that’s just the way it is. Whatever you think, you have not experienced “reverse racism”, because non-white people/PoC do not have the same institutional power that allows them to effectively discriminate.tl;dr: Critiquing someone’s racism is not a racist act. No, not even if they generalise to “white people”, because these problems are systemic.