People Aren't Happy About This Halloween Outfit

Halloween is fast approaching and people around the world are gearing up to display their best outfits.

While there will no doubt be plenty of Blocked Suez Canal or Squid Game contestant costumes this year, there is one that has sparked a bit of controversy on social media.

A woman walking through what appeared to be a party store came across an outfit that people will probably know pretty well.

It doesn't look like you get much in the package as it's simply just a wig designed in a certain way along with some big ole sunglasses.

Helen captioned it as 'the scariest costume' for Halloween 2021 and while it seems like the post was lighthearted, it didn't go down well in the comments section.

One person replied saying: "The way yt people have managed to turn this into a joke is honestly so unsurprising. A whole costume for a label that's supposed to identify yt women who weaponize their whiteness to brutalize black people."

Another added: "This is super wack. Absolutely nothing funny about a whole species of people that put Black people in danger of losing their lives with a simple phone call. I hate it here."

A third wrote: "I don't see shit funny bout that, that's the face of either someone that's gonna get you fired from your job or cause you bodily harm when she crashes her car into you."

Critics of the outfit called out how the manufacturers have turned perpetrators of real-world trauma into a funny character.

The term started out being used to describe an entitled white woman who you could imagine would be the type to speak to the manager over a small, seemingly insignificant issue.

It was then warped into being attached to women who were seen calling the police on people of colour for seemingly nothing.

The hype around the term escalated to such a level that San Francisco introduced the Caution Against Racial and Exploitative Non-Emergencies (CAREN) Act, which makes it a hate crime if someone places a racist call to 911.

If someone calls 911 about a person of colour when no crime is being committed then the target of that call can sue the perpetrator.

Stewart Perrie

Stewart Perrie is a Trending Journalist at LADbible. His first job was as a newsreader and journalist at the award winning Sydney radio station, Macquarie Radio. He was solely responsible for the content broadcast on multiple stations across Australia when the MH17, Germanwings and AirAsia disasters unfolded. Stewart has covered the conflict in Syria for LADbible, interviewing a doctor on the front line, and has contributed to the hugely successful UOKM8 campaign.

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