For years, Halloween has been plagued by progressive concepts like cultural appropriation. That is ending.
The College Fix reports:
Under Trump 2.0, colleges celebrate Halloween instead of warning against ‘offensive’ costumesPresident Donald Trump seems to have helped Make Halloween Great Again.Under his anti-politically correct administration — which has ardently warned administrators to stop pushing divisive DEI concepts — colleges and universities across the U.S. seem to have eased up on their once-prevalent admonitions regarding offensive Halloween costumes.Instead — they’re planning pumpkin carving workshops, costume contests and door decoration events, according to a recent keyword internet search by The College Fix.A keyword search for admonitions from campus leaders on offensive Halloween costumes this month came up empty, a stark contrast to trends from the past decade.For many years, campus leaders made it their mission in October to warn students what not to wear, with “unacceptable costumes” including “wearing Native American headdresses, dressing up as a ‘Mexican’ by wearing a sombrero, dressing as a ‘geisha,’ any form of blackface.”Students were chided against committing a “cultural appropriation” offense if the outfit did not originate from one’s own culture.Posters declaring “it’s a culture, not a costume” used to pepper quads nationwide, with special workshops hosted on campuses to hammer home the point.For instance, Princeton University held its “Conversation Circles: Cultural Appropriation and Halloween” event in 2017, in which students learned about “the impact of cultural appropriation, Halloween, and why culture is not a costume.”The University of South Indiana hosted a “Culture not Costumes” Halloween workshop that argued “clothing, symbols, music, art, religion, language, and social behavior” are all elements of cultural appropriation, warning students not to dress as “Pocahotties” and “sexy Indian Princesses” if they do not come from such cultures.Furman University in South Carolina was put on the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education’s “Speech Code of the Month” in October 2019 after it threatened students with investigation if they “encourage people to wear costumes or act in ways that reinforce stereotypes or are otherwise demeaning.”
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