Poor Halloween!

I don't see anybody wailing or claiming victimhood so please dispense with that nonsense.  There's a few, myself included, that just happen to think it's harmless fun and that it's a bit ridiculous to do away with school parties to appease a vocal extreme minority.

FWIW, the very few I've known who opposed these parties tended towards the extreme Christian types who were concerned about the devil/satanic side of Halloween. IMO, it probably wasn't good enough to just opt their kid out, they probably wanted to help "save" everyone else too.  Our grade school always did have a policy against bloody gory type costumes.

 
El Diaco said:
I don't see anybody wailing or claiming victimhood so please dispense with that nonsense.  There's a few, myself included, that just happen to think it's harmless fun and that it's a bit ridiculous to do away with school parties to appease a vocal extreme minority.

FWIW, the very few I've known who opposed these parties tended towards the extreme Christian types who were concerned about the devil/satanic side of Halloween. IMO, it probably wasn't good enough to just opt their kid out, they probably wanted to help "save" everyone else too.  Our grade school always did have a policy against bloody gory type costumes.
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I taught at a school where a few families wanted the Harry Potter books to be taken out of the library...because of witchcraft and stuff.

 
I generally have a problem with the vocal minority going after American traditions anyway, so yeah, the more I've thought about this the more it bothers me. Too be clear, there is a difference in vocally speaking out for equality where it lacks, and speaking out against cultural traditions that have been widely celebrated in this country for over 100 years in a lot of cases. As Americans, if we moved to another country we'd be expected to adapt to their culture, and it's well known that most countries are far less accommodating to outside cultural influences than we are here in America. 

I'm all for everyone worshiping who they want to worship, and celebrating whatever holidays they choose to celebrate. That is your right as an American citizen. However, it is not your right to expect most Americans to extinguish cultural traditions from public display because it makes you feel uncomfortable, or the more likely scenario, you just don't "like" it.

 
B.B. Hemingway said:
However, it is not your right to expect most Americans to extinguish cultural traditions from public display because it makes you feel uncomfortable, or the more likely scenario, you just don't "like" it.
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Technically, that's entirely their right. It doesn't mean that they're correct in that expectation, but they have the right to have it :P

Unrelated, I'll say this. I'd be happy with Halloween being a mandated holiday that was required to be celebrated in schools (not mandatory participation by the kids, obviously), if, in exchange, we did away with Columbus Day entirely.

 
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Landlord said:
Technically, that's entirely their right. It doesn't mean that they're correct in that expectation, but they have the right to have it :P

Unrelated, I'll say this. I'd be happy with Halloween being a mandated holiday that was required to be celebrated in schools (not mandatory participation by the kids, obviously), if, in exchange, we did away with Columbus Day entirely.
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Deal. :D

 
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Yeah, Columbus day is a complete waste. It takes ya until 4pm just figure out why there was no mail service and the banks were closed. Most useless holiday ever.

 
El Diaco said:
Yeah, Columbus day is a complete waste. It takes ya until 4pm just figure out why there was no mail service and the banks were closed. Most useless holiday ever.
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Columbus Day was great when I worked for a company that was closed on every bank holiday.  Other than that, it's pretty useless.

 
El Diaco said:
Yeah, Columbus day is a complete waste. It takes ya until 4pm just figure out why there was no mail service and the banks were closed. Most useless holiday ever.
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*some

After our merger we lost a lot of the holidays we used to have off. It's a total waste. No one ever knows we're open

 
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