Disney is pulling the costume for one of their newest characters, Moana, because a woman claims they are being racist for allowing children to pretend to be another race. Your thoughts?

I'm going to protest fake beards for costumes. They just want to be like me and Didge.

NOBODY CAN BE A NURSE FOR HALLOWEEN! ......I cry foul, they haven't had enough schooling!

It would seem that a lot of businesses don't have ballz. 

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA - the PC police have landed at Disney. O my goodness.

I'm white and when I was growing up, one of my friends gave me a black doll. My friend was also white. She wanted to give me the doll because she thought she was really pretty and she really liked the dress the doll had one.

I could have cared less that the doll was a black doll. Let's let someone ruin all the fun for the day by dictating what is and what is not acceptable. 

This is one of the stupidest things I've ever heard of, but I should not be surprised. 

This is getting a little out of hand ! I watched the video here and it's just one woman's rant. Geez ! It's just a costume. I see nothing wrong with it at all.

Disney halts sale of 'Moana' Halloween costume over accusations of ...

I read about this yesterday and find it to be over the top. They claim you cannot wear someone else's skin. The costume is for a character that is shirtless throughout the movie and is tattooed. So unless they want to change the costume to some kind of reusable tattoos I don't see how they can avoid the skin tone shirt.

And Disney pulled some pajamas for the same reason.

I had not heard that.

What I heard, was they pulled the costume because of the stereotype of overweight Polynesians.

Dear Corey The GoofyHawk,

I DO feel glad that Disney has been called on the carpet here, and I admire Disney's willingness to back off.

But not because of racism, nor because of cultural appropriation.

Twice in my life have I been immersed in a culture other than my own, once with Chinese in Seattle and again with African-American in San Francisco. And in other cultures there are perspectives, nuances, thought patterns, and world view very different from our own. These are unbelievably nourishing, rejuvenating, and for me possibly life-saving, since I was not thriving in my own culture...

And you can only assimilate these marvelously rich ways of being through an approach of openness, of learning. Disney (as a category, not personally) needs to learn their boundaries. In their endless quest for another Cinderella, Bambi, or Peter Pan they are trying to force human diversity into their tired-out, same-old mold.