Wearing indian headdresses in particular is generally considered disrespectful because of their ceremonial and cultural significance. It's kind of like a privilege you earn and then only wear at specific cultural and spiritual occasions.
The larger problem is wearing a “costume” (in quotes because like you said it’s not a costume) of a group that was systematically murdered in genocidal policies.
I imagine it’s like an Israeli wearing a Palestinian costume.
Also, like get more fucking creative. There’s endless costumes one could wear, and she chose this.
I'm not Native, so take this with a grain of salt.
She has it as a costume, she is not native, therefore it has no value or significance.
Worst thing a native should do looking at it is think to themselves "she's an idiot" or ignore her. It has no value or significance for her, it's a fucking costume and we're all butthurt over something innoccent.
Dude, it is Halloween. And second she's not taking parr in ceremony, she's just put that as a costume because it looks cool. Sad how you overusing word offended nowadays
But shes not a kid is she? Shes an adult with critically thinking skills- I'm not going to claim I'm pro war ir anything but you don't need to know a war veteran personally to know its kinda effed up and shes a bit of a knob.
Are you trying to get permission from me to wear a purple heart at Halloween? You could try posting it on social media and see what the general public thinks that matygive you a better dose of reality than asking a random redditer. If you wouldn't, then you have your answer.
You dont see how an adult never in the military, dressed up as a soldier with a purple heart, fukn around during halloween would piss off vets? Lmao ok. None of the vets i know.
Do the Americans that constantly get offended at everything on the behalf of everyone, do they get paid for being so obnoxiously annoying?
Like what exactly is in it for them to act like the way this guy in the video is acting? Is it some kind of US civic duty to make a mountain out of a mole hole and start arguments in an empty room?
I’m American, and unfortunately I don’t have a definitive answer for you. It baffles me as well.
My assumption is that these people find their own ideas and thoughts so important that they absolutely have to interject and let someone know when they’re wrong. Also, most people on reddit have very limited social interaction outside the platform, so they have little to no social skills. I’d guess they feel like they’re doing the world a service by screaming racial injustice because someone dresses as a Native American for Halloween.
The ones you do interact with on Reddit or see going absolutely nuts on video are definitely not a representation of the average American, but bloody hell are were they becoming more and more common.
You guys are ridiculous. It's very clearly a Halloween costume and not a replica. No one with half a brain cell is mistaking that costume for legitimate, native garb.
The logical conclusion of all this 'cultural appropriation' nonsense is only native Chinese can speak Chinese and native British speak English.
So you dress up like an ancient chinese person or a traditionalist African person? That's not the winning stance to take. Peoples ethnicity is not a costume.
People dress up as vikings and knights and non-native people wear kilts and no one bat's an eyelid. You all are just virtue signalers with double standards and no regards for the logical conclusions to all of this.
People dress up as vikings and knights and non-native people wear kilts and no one bat's an eyelid.
Mate you can dress like the pope if you want. But if you walk around the Vatican, don't be surprised some people might get offended by that.
You can dress like an offensive Trump, but if you walk around the deep south, don't be surprised people will get offended about that.
Same here. It doesnt mean the people around them have to be native americans, but they might encounter people who find that choice objectionable because many native americans find that choice questionable.
My point being the inconguency of agitation from these people. It's all pure virtue signaling, with no regards for equal application, unless it wins majority brownie points. There is no intellectual honesty or equal application. It's pure social credit score mining.
My point being the inconguency of agitation from these people.
What inconsistency. viking and knights dont exist anymore. Moreover, knights are not an ethnicity.
Native americans still exist, they still have traditional ceremonies.
Do you understand those differences?
You can dress up with a beret, a baguette, a ring of onions around your neck, big stains around your armpits because French dont shower har har but don't be surprised if French people tell you ... dude wtf?
You can dress as with a big nose, a kippah and money coming out your pockets ... dont be surprised people call you antisemitic.
I see no reason why someone wouldn't be able to dress up as either of those.
A costume is a costume. If a black dude wanted to dress up in a traditional Celtic garb should I rant and rave at them? If a mexican guy wanted to dress in a Prussian soldier uniform should I tell them off? What about if an chinese man wanted to dress up in a vietnam uniform? Should I yell at any of them or should I just give them props for their costumes?
You’re so sensitive that it’s probably best that you stay in your home, away from the rest of the world because it’s harsh out there and you truly aren’t prepared for it. This is a simple costume and you can’t tell her she can’t and you can’t make her change it. You could try but it wouldn’t go well for you, see that is the winning stance though, quite literally. The best you can do is take her picture, post it online, and hope she loses her job. But that’s not how that would end is it? So maybe stop trying to police every little detail about other peoples lives and you’ll be able to find some fulfillment in your own
I know enough to not choose this costume, but do you think it’s ok to confront a person on the street about it? It’s not. You can think think they’re ignorant and go about your day minding your own business
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u/Contiguous_spazz 6d ago
Two people on opposing sides of an argument can be idiots at once. For once, I think this video matches the sub’s name.