Halloween Canceled

[hamermill]

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/halloween-costumes-ban-sage-creek-winnipeg-school-1.4356919

Forget about dressing up like an Indian as Halloween has be cancelled.

 

[saxon]

Next they will be canceling Thanksgiving because it’s offensive to vegans.

 

[TeeJay]

I think most of can agree, in school we all dressed and saw the same thing - Hockey players, pirates, fairies, witches, ghouls. Nothing to offend anyone. It's a shame kids are losing out on something that's really so much fun.

Witches - offensive to ultraright wing christians (even going so far as to ban Potter books in school)
Pirates - banned pretty much everywhere (guns/weapons)

I actually had a huge laugh at a parent who told me their kindergarten kid got sent home & punished by school because he said he would shoot a classmate (dressed as a GI Joe for Halloween)
The school actually cited the violence policy and I nearly died laughing when I heard this

But I am a huge ass; last year I bought a box of those Popeye Cigarettes (I mean "sticks") to give out to the Liberal uptight parents just as a joke

 

[basketcase]

Same stuff every year. Christmas and Halloween are the two main targets always. ....

Christmas isn't as much of a problem as people pretend. There are some small town schools in predominantly Christian areas where they don't use the word out of fear that a hypothetical non-Christian would see it but in my experience at least, multicultural schools celebrate it as much as they have celebrations for Eid, Diwali, or whatever significant celebrations the students in the school have. And the Muslim Lebanese falafel guy down the street is usually the first store in the neighborhood with Christmas decorations up.

Next they will be canceling Thanksgiving because it’s offensive to vegans.

Maybe we should cancel vegans.

 

[jcpro]

Kids today are nothing like we were. If the school attempted to censor our costume choices, when I was a kid, we'd show up dressed as Hitler (complete with the mustache and swastika), blackened face and white lips, two six shooters and a yellow Star of David in a correct spot. Of course I grew up behind the Iron Curtain, I guess we were tougher.

 

[managee]

First this, what’s next?

Will hamermill be discouraged from rocking his minstrel costume complete with hilarious blackface makeup next year?

Libtard Halloweenies are the worst.

An attack on Halloween is an attack on values. Because reasons.

jcpro is right. Things were better behind the Iron Curtain. At-least you could dress up like your favourite Holocaust victim or perpetrator then/there.