These 7 reactions to someone complaining about green witch make-up were absolutely magic
It being Halloween season – when did it stop being a day? – the internet is awash with costumed people, soon to be courting gum disease and diabetes with a sugar binge that would put Cookie Monster to shame, and one woman on Twitter flagged up a potential problem.
She revised her use of “racist” with this correction.
We’re all well aware of the offensive origins of blackface, but we’d never heard of greenface being problematic, and neither, it seems, had many other people. These comments deserve a spell in the spotlight.
1.
A friend of mine was saying the other day that white people on this site busy themselves saying ridiculous shit and getting dogpiled for it because they face existential ennui in the absence of actual racism to contend with.
So they create their own struggles.
Exhibit A: https://t.co/Td0ywOUQjx
— Spooky Rexdale Mans (@andraydomise) October 30, 2019
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— Mike Pullen (@MikePullen1969) October 30, 2019
3.
getting stoned to death by your calvinist village for accidentally counting above 4 is exactly the same as being “wiccan”, a thing that hasn’t been edgy since 1997. https://t.co/3O2lGPDuAN
— banned🚩⭐️🚩memes (@nickbiddle) October 30, 2019
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I don’t think someone named “cannawitch” with a pot leaf in her profile, should worry too much about green faces undermining the dignity of the practice.
— georgina montrachet (@georginamontra1) October 30, 2019
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I always found the Blue Man group to be deeply disrespectful of those who have frozen to death
— Phil Robinson (@philiprobinsonn) October 30, 2019
6.
I’m very much looking forward to the inevitable Justin Trudeau pictures emerging.
— distant cities (@distantcities) October 30, 2019
7.
My grandmother’s maiden name was Nutter and her side of the family were from Pendle Hill. I feel personally oppressed by Grotbags.
— Jen (@jennkmt) October 30, 2019
In a plot twist, a lot of people – and Wikipedia – had a very different origin story for the green-faced witch trope.
witches are green at Halloween bc MGM’s Wizard of Oz thought it looked otherworldly and good in technicolor.
the hat and long/pointy nose ARE potentially offensive but not bc of witch trials- they may have origins in antisemitic medieval stereotypes.
— Quentin Coldwater Deserved Better (@sandmanndreams) October 30, 2019
Source: Twitter, Image: MGM, @paige_cody on Unsplash, Twitter screengrabs
