Joe Bob Splatterween + Happy Halloween/Cultural Appropriation Day! 👻

It's Halloween, and once again the discussion on what is a culturally "appropriate" costume seems to loom large.

Honestly, I don't quite get it, western society has always been about stealing the good cultural aspects from others, and amalgamating these aspects into our own society.

I don't necessarily think this is all that wrong.

Is it really such a crime for a wheat person to dress up as "sitting bull" for Halloween? I suppose the argument could be made that it is insensitive to use someone else's culture without understanding the context of that culture, which would be understandable in a society where minor indiscretions are seen as morally indefensible. But let's be real for a second, does any one give a shit about the origin of the English language? I mean it technically was descended from the Phoenician (read Arabic alphabet) but does anyone care?

Fuck, I learned to speak French, and I got into an argument with some retard who thought I was speaking Spanish, even though French is Canada's official second language.

I guess my issue with this hyper sensitive politically correct mindset is that it just seems so hollow, it's not that I don't think you can't appreciate the origin of where something comes from, but isn't really that wrong if others don't though?

Put another way, within the context of film, if I was watching "Kill Bill" with someone, and they told me that a scene in the film was inspired by "A Better Tomorrow 2" I'd be like "hey that's interesting maybe I'll check out some John Woo films, and maybe this film geek is knowledge and cool".

But if I spoke to the same guy, and he said "you don't know that this scene was based off of A Better Tomorrow 2? That's disgusting, you can't possibly understand what the director was going for, and therefore can't understand the film" I'd think the guy was an autistic retard, and tell him to shove his fucking scone fed hot take elbow deep up his asshole.

How often to you see the fucking Pagans complaining about how Anglo Saxon religions stole customs from the winter solstice, not alot cause those people have more fucking important things to do than bitch about people having fun.

If people want to wear a Sombreo I say let them, I like fusion food, I don't care if it isn't strictly traditional, I only care if it tastes good (and is prepared properly).

I like the calender system, it was derived from the calender of my people (but improved), the West can have it. I'm not terribly offended that they didn't take child sacrifice, or heart extraction as part of that.

I mean in one way Diversity is our strength, in that we've cannibalized the best parts of other cultures, and cut out the fat. We live in British Columbia, so I'm happy to take the tea drinking aspects of our culture, but do away with the pogroms, general pedophilia, and inbreeding of the British monarchy.

God, I hate the British, and their tappet fascism panopticon surveillance state society they've built, and the infantilism of adults.

We DEFINITELY should NOT emulate a country that has restrictions on how much you may open a window (they apparently know that their poor civilians want to jump out of a window to kill themselves, and escape the Orwellian hellscape they exist in).

My point is this year I'm going as Memin Pinguin, and if anyone tries to stop me, I'm going to say that they don't understand my culture.

BYOB, costumes appreciated, but not expected. Probably screening Joe Bob, so random movie. I have a spooky bottle of crystal skull to share.

I'll DM new members with location details