Don’t mind if I do!
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"I think the only challenge is if they actually try to summons somebody else, you know, a loved one from the grave, then I think they’re asking for some serious stuff. As a Christian, I don’t think they can do that.” - Blithering Idiot Patti Bugg
Oh if only the day really would come when bigots this profoundly stupid could be raptured away by their imaginary sky daddy.
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When you start claiming credit to yourself and your ancestors for other cultures, and in so doing erase their heritage.
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You’re right, AND it’s also true that pretty much everything we do is an amalgam of various cultures – from our language to our clothing, holidays, religions, work practices, etc.
I don’t have to blame them to gently ignore them.
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Is this bigoted heifer serious?
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Right, but what if one person is offended by it? Isn’t it appropriation then?
Or is there some threshold where we say “less than 10% of the population is offended, so their opinion doesn’t matter”?
Or do we take a stance where we say we won’t go out of our way to hurt people’s feelings, but we also won’t go out of our way to accommodate every single last person because down that path lies madness? You will never make everybody happy, there are too many mutually opposing viewpoints. No one person is the sole arbiter of what is right and just in the world. Sometimes you have to tell people sorry, but your demand is unreasonable.
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Really I don’t know why she’s worried. In the unlikely event of any successful resurrections, the undead are certain to stay far away from Poltergeist Patti. Even zombies can smell white nonsense (or would if they existed).
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That’s the same attitude of the people treating immigrants poorly.
Personally I think mixing and assimilation to where the lines differentiating two things are now blurred is what makes and strengthens America as concept.
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This feels like one of those cases where the person complaining has made up their mind about the situation before learning the first thing about it.
Like those people who forbid their family from participating at all in Halloween activities because they’re a tool of Satan, but had they tried it just once they might have realized that it’s much less insidious than they were lead to believe. The kid dressing up as He-Man and asking neighbors for treats is not being tempted into a life of satanic abuse as some people imagine.
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Zombies eat brains; she has nothing to worry about, even if they were a reality.
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Orko though, we all know that guy was down with Baphomet, right?
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Sure, there’s always going to be unreasonable people on any side of any issue. But I’m not saying that you should literally go out and walk the streets, polling Mexican people before making sugar skulls with your kids. I mean you should ask yourself if you’re taking part in their celebrations (hanging papel picado, hitting piñatas) or doing something super tacky you shouldn’t (wearing sombreros, etc), and get the gist of what would be offensive (a costume store ‘funny’ Mexican mustache is not celebrating their culture).
And honestly, as you say, sometimes you just have to roll with it, because you know your own intentions aren’t wrong and you can’t please everyone. If someone’s truly offended seeing a white kid with a sugar skull, that’s their own problem.
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Having generations of family out of Kentucky, I read it as meaning the parking lot of the Piggly Wiggly. #zoningissues
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I grow up and I find that some things I thought were universal are actually not. (And some things I thought were unique to me are actually universal, but that’s another story.) . . . . When I was a kid, in western New York, beggar’s night was the day before Halloween, and was the day kids went trick-or-treating. Some kids also went out on Halloween (me and friends, among others), but it was generally considered the day for parties or other more organized activities. Is this not what others did? (And yes, I’m old.)
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I was a kid in Southern California in the 70s/80s, and I only heard of beggar’s night in the last few years, online. We always trick or treated after dark on Halloween, usually going with friends, whoever lived in the ritziest neighborhood. Once we were 9 or 10, we didn’t even have an adult go with us.
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Nah, those are white folks summoning undead. Really, really white folks:
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