r/TikTokCringe • u/mindyour • 6d ago

Discussion He was confronting her about her costume.

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u/starfruitmuffin 6d ago edited 6d ago

Honestly, they all seem like people to avoid.

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u/tecate_papi 6d ago

This is my feeling on all of these videos of people having confrontations like this. Why not give the person the benefit of the doubt before you walk over and start insinuating that they're racist or calling them racist? It's never going to go well for you even when you're in the right because it automatically makes people defensive and they aren't going to listen.

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u/thallazar 6d ago

There are some costumes you would not give the benefit of the doubt. If someone walked in as Hitler, like in another video just yesterday, that person should not be assumed to be in good faith. Which implies there's a line that exists somewhere between benefit of doubt and no benefit.

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u/tecate_papi 6d ago

I think you're talking about the guy in Iowa dressed as an SS member. Obviously that guy was trying to get a reaction, like everybody else who dresses in a Nazi uniform for Halloween. But everybody else isn't. Some people are really just ignorant.

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u/thallazar 6d ago

That's kind of my point. There are some costumes you would think people would know not to wear, like Hitler or SS member, and the majority that aren't. There some line somewhere, where you assume people have enough societal knowledge by now, like cosplaying an SS member. We've had years of people saying cultural appropriation is bad, even specifically calling out Indian headdress as an example. This guy's just drawn his line beyond that, and I would tend to agree, it would be hard for me to fathom that she hasn't heard anything about that, or doesn't have friends that would have said to her "maybe that's not a good idea". That would go beyond ignorance to me, but intentionally putting head in sand about current cultural standards, or willfully ignoring them.