And I live in Florida so I know my governor and attorney general aren ' t completely in Trump ' s pocket . s <| sep |> More like rock grenade <| sep |> i read leukemia and was confused <| sep |> I think you are over thinking it , number one , and at the same time , I think others are over thinking the whole cultural appropriation thing . So here is my slant on it , having only skimmed your post 1 Wearing a costume that is based on a culture is totally fine so long as it is not intended to be a mockery of that culture . A lot of costumes that portray other races and cultures are expressly that . That is why 30006 . jpg is okay but fancydress . co . ukcatalogimageszulu . jpg is not . Both are southern Zulu tribe costumes worn by white people , but only one of them is being deliberately ignorant . That last one is meant to be a stereotypical representation of a group of people , whereas at least the first has some kind of actual merit . I would have no issue with the first white guy , but a major issue with the second . 2 You talk about discussing concerns freely but at the same time are denouncing what others are saying because you disagree . Now , from a historical point of view , there is a lot of reasons why no one wants to see white people dressed in stereotypical portrayals of other races . Because historically this was used to fuck with other people . for Now have other races done this ? Yes , but it was always purely intentional . Bamboozled , or the movie White Chicks for example are about how genuinely absurd the idea of someone dressing up as another race is . However , none of these films , where whites played characters of other racesLlpY 1 WN 7 were doing so to make fun of it , they were doing it either as a joke itself or as a form of whitewash where you have a white character play someone of a different race just because . 3 Wearing a costume of a specific character is no issue . A white person wearing a Princess Jasmine costume is dandy . But if you dress up as a stereotypical version of some belly dancing , Arabian , concubine , that really is disrespectful to those people . I don ' t understand what the hard part to understand about that is . Dressing up as a greek person isn ' t the same as painting my skin white , flattening my lips , and taking on certain demeanors , etc in order to become a stereotypical white person . 4 And most importantly . Why ? I don ' t understand the purpose of this anyway . Why not dress as a superhero , a witch , a monster , a character , I truly and genuinely don ' t understand what you lose by being told that dressing up as a stereotype is not a good idea ? I don ' t get it . To sum it up Wear whatever costume you want , but it isn ' t wise to dress up as a stereotypical representation of actual group of people , especially ones who are still alive to tell you they don ' t like what you are doing . You don ' t get to decide they don ' t have a right to be upset . Just because you are dressed as person of another race , doesn ' t mean you can paint your skin . No one else seems to have this issue when dressing as characters of different racescontentuploads 201212 HarleyQuinnCosplay . jpg but for some reason , a lot of white people haven ' t caught on to this . online . co . u k s i tesdefaultfilesimagecache 455 Blackupcool . jpgNot all , but some .