Writing for the Huffington Post, Nicholas Pierce argued that wearing a “colorful sombrero” on Halloween is the equivalent of dressing up as a pilot who was murdered on 9/11 or as a cancer patient.
Pierce’s article, titled Your Holiday Is $#*%, and Your Costume Is Racist, imagines that you have a friend named “Todd” who wants to dress up on Halloween.
“If Todd,” Pierce writes, “goes out on October 31st wearing a poncho and colorful sombrero (and your friend Todd is not from Central America) then your friend Todd is a racist.”
Todd might not know how extremely racist he is, the article says, because “we white folk are particularly insensitive because we don’t have a lot to be sensitive about.” Thus, Pierce says, as a “white person,” he feels obligated to explain “an appropriate analogy.”
Wearing a sombrero, he details, is like dressing “up as Todd’s Mom on Chemotherapy” (emphasis his). “Because of our aforementioned lack of oppression,” Pierce continues, “we are often blinded to how our behavior impacts others.”
Another equivalent to wearing a sombrero? Mocking 9/11 victims.
“Another analogy,” Pierce continues. “9/11 happened to all of us, and it stands out starkly for those of a particular age (likely Todd’s age). If I went to a Halloween party dressed as a pilot with a box cutter sticking out of my forehead and cheerfully told you that I’m pretending to be the pilot of American Airlines Flight 77, you would probably be pissed.”
In the end, if you wear that sombrero, you are a racist. “First,” Pierce concludes, “he (Todd) encourages whatever absurd stereotype is the theme of his attire, and second, he shows the world that white people are deaf to the suffering of others. And when Todd does this it gives cause to not-white-folks to righteously employ that word we hate so much: racist.”
When will they learn that we don’t care?
Oh that’s right, they never listen to what we say, too busy coming up with their next grievance.
He must be serious, it’s impossible to make this shit up. Personally, I’m going as a ghost, traditional white sheet over my head. Talk about racist, holy shit I’m gunna get flamed, if not by alive people then by the dead people I plan on oppressing all friggin night.
I heard on the “news” yesterday that NY was considering banning St. Patrick from their St. Patrick’s Day parade?
So what, then, does the parade “celebrate”? Irish people? Aren’t they white, so white in fact, that they’re pink?
I might have to invoke the “R” word here…
From a recent cartoon:
“I was going to be a liberal for Halloween,
but my head couldn’t fit up my ass.”
i guess this means i need to change my plan to be a transgender illegal
but all i have to do is drop the sombrero, the rest of the costume, including the strap-on dildo, is still ok
And dressing up as Nicholas Pierce is insulting to dickheads.
If you ever had the house next door turn into an illegal alien clown house, you’d realize that illegal immigration is the real cancer.
So would it be racist if Mexicans and people of Mexican descent wear levis and T-shirts???
I thought this might actually be a funny satire column but nope, this idiot is real. He’s described as a blogger and a law student. That’s just great. Another lawyer who can only get a job working as an ACLU hack or a frivolous lawsuit filer who prays he gets an out of court “go away” settlement lest he actually have to step into a courtroom. I read most of the column, he’s a douche with race issues and not particularly witty.
So I guess every Mariachi band in history is celebrating oppression.
Aw, darn. Already had to buy a Confederate flag – now I gotta buy a sombrero … I sure hope somebody gets pissed off.
I own a traditional wool poncho I bought during a visit to San Diego almost a decade ago. It’s a nice, warm outerwear alternative to a heavy jacket. I paid good money for it. Is this idiot saying I don’t have the right to wear my own property simply because my ancestors were born in Ireland and Germany instead of Mexico?
With that analogy I think I now understand common core math.
My dog and I were dressing as ‘Cisco and Pancho’ for Halloween…I guess we’ll have to dress as ‘Amos and Andy’ now, so as not to offend…
These were the same POS celebrating when Tony Snow got cancer. F THEM ALL!
Again this year I asked the wife to dress in related costumes. Her as a little girl with a blue and white checked dress, Mary Jane flats, pig tails. Me, standing by her side, buck naked with a pair of roller skates, disguised as a pull toy.
Not this year! And I’m beginning to think she’s never going to go for the idea.
Good thing I’m going with Black Face paint, I wouldn’t want to offend Mexicans.
I bet if you could look at this AHole’s medical records, you’d find he has been drugged since childhood at the recommendation of the school, and he stopped taking his meds.
“Let’s say you have a friend named Todd. And you and Todd like to play ‘dress up’ together. So you wear the cowboy hat, vest, and chaps without pants and Todd wears the poncho, sombrero, and sparkling high heels …”
Is it still fucking racist?
I have a chicken strung on a phone cord hanging around my neck with blue paint on my bare chest, well bare everything How many people will I offend being Chicken Corden Bleu ? Smurfs? Vegans? gluten intolerants? textiles ( what us nudist call folks who wear clothes)
Doesn’t anyone understand that lighten up on being offended and everyone will have more fun. Laugh.
Okay, so Todd is racist.
But Nicholas Pierce is a brain-dead asshole.
LOL. A guy at work today put signs reading LAW all over his jacket.
He told me he was a lawsuit for Halloween.
BTW I’m a three-time dancer survivor. And yes, I did go bald from chemo.
The amount of hallucinogens it would take to make me connect a sombrero with cancer would surely kill me first.
but Huffington Post – if I wear my URBAN Sombrero, am I still Spongeworthy?