People don’t use Halloween as an excuse to be racist. In fact, inferring racism from something as harmless as a Halloween costume is explained by the theory of ‘psychological projection’.‘Psychological projection’ is when one defends themselves from their own unconscious impulses/qualities by denying their existence in themselves while attributing them to others.Cultural appropriation feeds into something called ‘identity politics’. This is a postmodernist, Marxist ideology that aims to pit majority and minority groups against one another. It creates people whose identity and hence morals, become intrinsic to their political ideology.Therefore, if I disagree with your ideology and you are morally right, I must be morally wrong, hence I’m a bad person and it’s okay to slander and undermine bad people, because they’re bad.Which brings me to my point; if you’re someone who gets offended by a Halloween costume and thinks it’s racist to innocently dress up in another culture’s garb, or as a silly stereotype, then you’re probably, albeit unintentionally, psychologically projecting your own hate onto that person. Surprisingly, that means you’re the problem, not the Halloween costume. Who’d have thought?