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http://www.cnbc.com/2015/08/24/caitlyn-jenner-halloween-costume-sparks-social-media-outrage-.html

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ne...een-costume-labeled-817515?utm_source=twitter

It's nowhere near October, but one ensemble is already on track to be named the most controversial Halloween costume of 2015.

Social media users were out in full force on Monday criticizing several Halloween retailers for offering a Caitlyn Jenner costume reminiscent of the former-athlete's Vanity Fair cover earlier this year.

While Jenner's supporters condemned the costume as "transphobic" and "disgusting" on Twitter, Spirit Halloween, a retailer that carries the costume, defended the getup.

"At Spirit Halloween, we create a wide range of costumes that are often based upon celebrities, public figures, heroes and superheroes," said Lisa Barr, senior director of marking at Spirit Halloween. "We feel that Caitlyn Jenner is all of the above and that she should be celebrated. The Caitlyn Jenner costume reflects just that."
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HinRai said:
Mexican's are traditionally super Catholic, so maybe not. God says till death do you part after all, but there's no harm in speeding that bit up.
I mean, I guess there's a bit of harm, what with the burns and dicks being chopped off and what-not, but you know
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Yeah, Mexican's are a motley crew. Not Mexican Americans, but the ones that spent the bulk of their time living in Mexico can be kinda "special". A group of Mexican guys used to go to the bar room's after work with the rest of the guys we worked with and they'd do some pretty rank shit, like spit on the ground indoors and instead of flirting or trying to meet women, they'd just leer at that from across the room the entire time. It wasn't a language issue either, all these guys spoke English pretty well.
 
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Coleman Francis said:
You know what is wayyyy worse than parentheses?

HATE SYMBOL
Boots and Laces
Racist skinheads prefer wearing steel-toed workboots, typically with red or white shoelaces laced a certain way.


Little did I know, all those blue collar guys drinking coffee, wearing hardhats at the jobsite are a bunch of nazis.
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"Braces and laces" (braces being suspenders) are a common attribute of skinheads and particularly white-power skinheads. At least where I live.

You see a couple dudes in Doc Martens with white laces and white suspenders heading your way, you better look white and not have long hippie hair or you might get an ass-kicking.
 
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Coleman Francis said:
You know what is wayyyy worse than parentheses?

HATE SYMBOL
Boots and Laces
Racist skinheads prefer wearing steel-toed workboots, typically with red or white shoelaces laced a certain way.


Little did I know, all those blue collar guys drinking coffee, wearing hardhats at the jobsite are a bunch of nazis.
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Also racist (depending on your own life) Delta construction equipment or the triforce.

https://www.adl.org/education/references/hate-symbols/triangular-klan-symbol
 
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How about just saying that numbers are racist?


(Off topic: Tanner Glass, cool icon and user name. I miss that dude in the 'burgh)
 
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Mrs Paul said:
How about just saying that numbers are racist?
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Lol, the first page is basically all numbers that are "problematic". The funny thing about the adl's database is that 98% of it is ultra specific prison gang tattoos and symbols that nobody ever has to worry about unless you go to prison.
 
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Federal Government telling people to drink milk is institutionalized Racism.

It may not surprise you that the United States was founded on racism. That every institution we uphold has racist roots that are sometimes difficult to catch and even harder to fight against. This phenomenon affects our voter ID laws, state testing and, yes, even our federal dietary guidelines. But how can our health guidelines, a system meant to be built upon scientific fact alone, have racist messages? Where there is a deep-rooted tradition to suppress an entire race’s existence, there’s a way.

The federal endorsement of milk in American diets contributes to the problem by uncritically pushing people to drink milk, despite the potential detriment it has on non-white people’s health.

Our current federal dietary guidelines urge people to drink three cups of milk a day, according to the 2015-2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans. The main health benefit of milk is to guard against osteoporosis, a disease that weakens your bones — hence the “stronger bones” rhetoric. While this is a very practical health benefit, osteoporosis affects Africans at a significantly lower rate than it does most Americans, according to an article on Mother Jones.
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The Mother Jones article states that not only is milk non-beneficial to Africans, but following the guidelines may actually be detrimental to their health. There is a strong correlation to calcium consumption and an increased risk of prostate cancer, unproportionally affecting African men. Furthermore, both black children and adults generally secrete less calcium on a daily basis than white people, making them less dependent upon milk.

Remember that this is the dietary guidelines for Americans. I want to emphasize that last word. These guidelines are for Americans. This means they should reflect the health needs of the ethnicities that make up America which, news flash, isn’t just white people. And since the African American community in the U.S. is continuously rising, it seems only logical to acknowledge that while something may be beneficial for one group of people, that may not be the case for another.

These differences are now leaving the world of health and spilling into our political and social lives. Milk has now become a symbol of racial superiority for white nationalists and neo-Nazis, claiming that their ability to process milk makes them racially superior.
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Until we recognize the racist roots in our own systems of government and fight to remove them, we are all in part responsible for the white, creamy form of racism currently taking hold in our country.
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http://archive.is/9JU3s
 
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