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Halloween Cancelled in Seattle

In Puyallup, Oregon, Halloween’s been cancelled this year. For obvious reasons, of course: dressing up as a witch is offensive to real witches.

“Witches with pointy noses and things like that are not respective symbols of the Wiccan religion and so we want to be respectful of that,” said Hansen.

The school district cancelled Halloween, of course, to be politically correct, to be kind to witches.

Building administrators should not tolerate such inappropriate stereotyping (images such as Witches on flying brooms, stirring cauldrons, casting spells, or with long noses and pointed hats) and instead address them as you would hurtful stereotypes of any other minority.”

Either that, or some witch cast a spell on the Puyallup school board. 😛

* via Wizbang

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13 responses to “Halloween Cancelled in Seattle”

  1. A.M.M. Avatar
    A.M.M.

    I wouldn’t be surprised if they ban the Frankenstein costumes under the excuse of they don’t want to offend “people with prosthetics”. Ooh! What about banning Power Rangers, Barney, various Disney Princesses, and other pop icons as being “illegal celebrity impersonations”? Maybe banning Kerry for being offensive to Catholics? Oops! How did something political get in here? 🙂

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  2. Jo Avatar
    Jo

    How come we only expect people to respect our own religion? Is it somehow less offensive when it’s not directed at us?

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    Anonymous

    In answer to Jo’s question…..Yes.

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  4. Michael Avatar
    Michael

    Frankly, for me Halloween witches have no more to do with religion (Wiccan or otherwise) than Christmas elves or Chinese New Year dragons. They’re make believe fantasy creatures.

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  5. A.M.M. Avatar
    A.M.M.

    And personally, I’m not Catholic. I was just extending a joke.

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  6. Jo Avatar
    Jo

    What? Christmas elves are fantasy creatures? You expect me to believe that? If elves aren’t real, then where does Santa get all those toys? Wal-mart?

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  7. Michael Avatar
    Michael

    Jo… sit down, girl. I have some bad news for you. 😕

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  8. Intelligent Person Avatar
    Intelligent Person

    This [censored] makes me want to PUKE. This is just a blatant attempt at ruining the holiday fun for kids in school. Waste of classtime?? Its a FREAKIN HALF HOUR. These OLD STUPID FARTS dont even realize how tragic and possibly damaging this is to KIDS. If I were in that town…..I would [idle threat of vandalism deleted] on Halloween. But this is just 1 smart mans opinion.

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  9. Another intelligent Person Avatar
    Another intelligent Person

    i agree with the intelligent person ^

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  10. Another intelligent Person Avatar
    Another intelligent Person

    since there are no real witches, they are just satan worshiping kooks,

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  11. Another intelligent Person Avatar
    Another intelligent Person

    that like to “Cast spells” on people

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    Anonymous

    I have been a practicing Witch for many years now. I personally love
    Halloween, it was always one of my favorite holidays. I keep some of my
    Halloween decorations up all year. Now, celebrating Samhain (what Halloween
    was originally called and what we Witches call it) is still one of my
    favorite times of year. On my altar is a little porcelain witch (Halloween
    decoration) given to me by a friend.
    I am not offended at all by children, or adults, dressing up to celebrate.
    I still dress up every year. Last year, I even went as a wicked witch.
    Complete with basket of apples. And I didn’t offend myself. 🙄
    This year, at our Samhain festival, everyone dressed up, and we even had a
    costume contest before our ritual. One winner, who follows the Egyptian Path
    won, with her costume of Cleopatra. Nobody was offended. My husband, who
    is
    6 foot 4 inches, dressed as Grumpy the Dwarf. I hope we didn’t offend any
    little people. Some of the males chose to dress in “drag”. Hmm…maybe
    we should have warned them about possibly offending cross-dressers. The
    other winner was dressed as “Jesus-Tap-Dancing_Christ”. I’m sure that would
    offend a lot of people. 😯

    Really, you should not even TRY to P.C. a holiday like Halloween/Samhain.
    Yes, for us, it is a serious holiday. We respect and honor that, and our
    rituals are very serious. We know fully what this Sabbat is all about. But
    almost every Pagan and Witch I know also enjoys the fun, irreverent, campy
    side of the holiday. It is the one day of the year when everyone can be
    politically incorrect, outrageous, and funny. It is a day full of fantasy
    and magick. For pagans and non-pagans. The last thing I would want to see is
    children being deprived of fantasy and magick. THAT offends me.

    Layla

    P.S. We don’t worship Satan.:twisted: We don’t believe in him. THAT’S a Christian thing.

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  13. Michael Avatar
    Michael

    That certainly sheds some light on a lot of things, thanks. 🙂

    Just a forewarning, I’m celebrating Christmas this year. I am *not* celebrating Winter Holiday, whatever that is. 😛

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