SL&AM
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Halloween festivities were always (and still are) banned at my elementary school and I'm a freshman in college... I didn't think people still had them. We had "fall" parties and costumes weren't allowed. We also had holiday parties, not Christmas parties.
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When the girl's were in school in Missouri they couldn't wear costumes so they made vocabulary hats. Florida, it's full on costume mayhem! As long as it's tasteful---no vampires, scary things, or witches but they can dress up as just about anything else. Last year CP was a cheerleader and DP was Alice in Wonderland. No clue on this year.
I feel like the Internet is widely to blame for this. I am a telecommunications major and we talk about this a lot in class. Though many people have research and experience to put behind their opinions, many people also do not. Their opinion stems from something they read like one time on Facebook or tumblr or reddit or whatever without doing research to a) prove that they actually read factual information, and b) go deeper into the matter (see both sides of the story) and THEN evaluate their beliefs and morals to see how it matches up.
One of my old friends fell into a tumblr hole and turned into the most judgmental, opinionated and "that offends me" person I may have ever met. It's not a bad website and she's not a bad person but she soaked up everything she read like a sponge and it got to the point where if you said something she didn't agree with, she'd jump down your throat and refuse to speak to you again. It is also definitely a personal problem for her, but her blatant disregard for the opinions of her friends and only for what she read on the Internet caused her to lose 80-90% of her friends. I was not one of them, but when I am around her I know I have to tread very, very carefully.
See both sides of every story. Research. Evaluate. It's OK to not have an opinion or to be unsure. And it's OK to have an unpopular opinion. Just make sure you can back it up!!
EEK! I know a few or more of those types of people. They drive me insane and half of them are my in-laws. I absolutely love how they shared every political thing on the planet, but if you point out how inaccurate it is their response is, "Well it could be true." No...it's not true, it doesn't matter that it could be at another time and place.
I find this for warnings and PSA's too. There was a recent viral thing about a pedo ring targeting a child in Target in Tampa. The story was bogus but people shared it on the off chance that 'it could happen,' ignoring the fact that pedo rings don't actually pilfer children like that---but hey, let's all be paranoid at Target anyway! Ugh.
Hypothetical question: what would you say to a school with a mascot of the blackskins? Do you consider that offensive? Why or why not?
That label would have to actually be a thing for me to even consider the question. Wetback I've heard, redskins I've heard, the N word I've heard---but blackskins? I'd think it was a kind of bear or a fish.
All of us can find something offensive and that in and of itself is not the issue. The problem is "ego", when we decide something is offensive, and therefore, everyone else should, too.
I'll answer your question with a question. Should my opinion dictate what the outcome should be? We either want freedom or we want to be the moral compass for everyone else. My question, "Who gets to be the moral compass?"
DING, DING, DING! I'm over being told what to be offended over when I don't make that big of a deal out of things that actually offend me. Want to see me really get pissed off---use the term retarded to describe another human being, call someone autistic because they're socially awkward and combine those two words to make an insult and I see red. However, I'm not calling for people to ban the words---small situation, but same concept.
Hell I graduated from high school IN A CHURCH! In a freaking church! Not only did I think i was going to burst into flames, every photo I have has a cross in the background. Ugh!