Every year, there is one.
Actually, most years, it’s more like ten.
Every Halloween, despite the ongoing discussion around appropriate costumes, there are celebrities who don’t seem to get the message.
The first person (because we are sure there is more to come) to make headlines this year for their insensitive costume is Hilary Duff.
Attending the Casamigos Halloween Party with her boyfriend, Jason Walsh, Duff dressed as a sexy pilgrim beside Walsh, who was a ‘chief’ native American Indian.
The Huffington Post first uncovered the photos, pointing out how culturally insensitive the costumes were.
"Dressing up as a Native American/pilgrim duo would be incredibly offensive in any year, considering the legacy of violence wrought upon native communities since the founding of this country," the Huffington Post wrote.
Backlash has been fierce on social media with one person writing, "If he [Walsh] wanted to be authentic he could have dogs set on him, or pepper sprayed."
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The harm of the costume is even worsened by protests that are occurring across American with Native Americans fighting the construction of a pipeline in North Dakota.
The project has the potential to contaminate the water of the surrounding areas and damage their sacred land.
Top Comments
Yet if they wore those same costumes to Thanksgiving dinner, someone would praise them for reminding modern Americans of the lifesaving role the Native Americans played in the survival of the infant Pilgrim colony and the first giving of thanks.
No. they wouldn't.
Particularly considering the fact tha most of the mythology around thanksgiving is just that, myth.
Colonial Americans slaughtered and enslaved the indigenous population.
Culture is not a costume.
What happened to dressing up as ghosts and vampires???... characters out of scary movies???... zombies anyone??? it's not a playboy come-as-the-sexiest-version thing... stick in your fangs and voila!..
I agree with Suz! I am dumbfounded as to why a 'slutty unicorn' screams Halloween! What happened to zombies, dug up dead brides and road kill!?