Of course, how can we have a Halloween without progressives trying to ruin it?

Peter Fricke reports at Campus Reform.

Wesleyan provides checklist to help students avoid ‘offensive’ Halloween costumes

Now that Columbus Day is over, Wesleyan University is turning its attention toward the next controversial date on the calendar: Halloween.

Wesleyan’s Office of Student Affairs has placed posters throughout campus, an example of which was obtained by Inside Higher Ed, featuring a “Halloween Checklist” to help students determine whether their costume ideas might be offensive.

“Is your costume offensive?” the poster asks. “Check yourself and your friends.”

There follows a list of several general questions that students are encouraged to ask themselves before settling on a costume, such as whether it “[mocks] cultural or religious symbols such as dreadlocks, headdresses, afros, bindis, etc.” Another red flag, according to the flyer, are costumes that “attempt to represent an entire culture or ethnicity.”

Racial insensitivity is not the only concern, though, as the poster also asks students to consider whether their costumes “trivialize human suffering, oppression, and marginalization such as portraying a person who is homeless, imprisoned, a person with disabilities, or a person with mental illness.”

An employee at the Office of Residential Life informed Campus Reform that the poster was spearheaded by the Student Activities and Leadership Development office, but calls to that department had not been returned by press time.