Vixianna
Valtiel the Watcher
Well no it isn't. That's a misconception of the term racism, which is to say that anything that shows a possible preference for one race over another is racist. It's not equal for sure, but it's not racist. I mean I can't speak for writers or casting directors. I mean for all we know they could be burning a cross in someone's yard as we speak, and their choice to put a higher percentage of caucasian actors on television is directly linked to their belief that the white man is superior to all other races, but I'm just going to go out on a limb here and assume that a good percentage of these people aren't racist.
as far as the topic, if a costume company was selling a black face kit, or a set of oriental glasses that make your eyes squinty and give you fake buck-teeth then yes that'd be racist. are many costume companies promoting racial stereotypes, possibly.... does this mean that the holiday itself is doing any of those things..... no it doesn't. it's not run by these people.
I wasn't talking about the holiday, only the representation of minorities in media. Throwing in tokens, while making the rest of everyone else white with fully fleshed out characters IS racist. While most people seem to stick to the most basic, simple, and narrow definition of the word, (dealing with hatred) insisting that someone has to be consciously thinking someone is inferior or consciously creating and perpetuating stereotypes or tokenism to be racist, I disagree. You can be DO racist(prejudicial) actions without being racist yourself. Understand, the representation of minorities by mass media has an effect on how America views them. Not only by the majority, but by how the minority group views itself, and feels about it's place within the majority structure. As for claiming it's about money, exploiting and perpetuating stereotypes of minority groups to gain money by PLAYING OFF the
racist notions of the group is pandering to a racist action, business decision or not. Just like older advertisements for many products contained sexism or racism in order to appeal to the majority, it is entirely possible for something to use racist or sexist or and other ist/phobic notions to sell a product. And while the product itself likely isn't racist(related to Halloween here), the practices used to disseminate it to the public are.(the models in question)
And yes there are plenty of offensive Halloween costumes, however, I'll leave their exploration to someone else.
It was assumed that I was denying that there was no inequality in the media, never made that claim. I will admit to the fact that the lack of diversity in the media can be considered unequal, but the point I was trying to make before is that even if you find legitimately racist things in some aspects of the media, it shouldn't be an excuse to condemn all of the media. It should be considered case by case. In relation to the conversation, it's stupid to say that the holiday itself is racist because of the choices of a few costume companies.
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