memphis-may-fuckyou:

millennialsentinel:

The parodies of “We’re a culture not a costume” are fucking awful and everyone reblogging them with a giggle should reevaluate your sense of humor and if you don’t decide that you’re an awful human that needs to change themselves I hope you step on a lego and trip into a pit of scorpions.

I don’t understand, sincerely, why people can’t take a joke. I swear half of tumblr exists just to be bothered by everything else. I can’t possibly understand how separate cultures can look at, for example, someone wearing a sombrero whilst shaking maracas and say “They must think this represents me and therefore they’re trying to make fun of me.”





It’s a stereotype. And I feel like being angered at a vague sterotype like that is a personal admittance of you believing that’s WHAT you are.



Story time! My brother’s driving instructor once told him that he had a line of bumper stickers saying “Watch out! There are a lot of morons on the road!”

People would call him and say they’re offended by that.

But why would they be offended unless they believed that /they/ were a moron? Who would take such a personal offense to someone suggesting others COULD be morons?



And if you’re going to be so stuck up as to declare the parodies offensive, maybe you should declare the ORIGINALS offensive as well. Because they’re just as stupid as the parodies. I saw one, “I’m a cat, not a costume!” …How is that any LESS offensive than the embodiment of a culture that isn’t even accurate? No one is trying to offend your culture. It’s JUST a costume. That’s all it is. A funny parody of culture in itself and nothing to ever get antsy about.





But yeah, blackface is never okay, though.