Your point, and the author's point, are both wrong.
The Shrike Send a noteboard - 01/11/2017 11:59:52 PM
Learning about "origins" is beautiful and help our understanding of who we are in the present by learning about our history, but also beautiful is learning about "remixes" and how things change over time. There is no perfect / original, it is human ingenuity causing things to change over time and ascribe new meaning. We as humans do this to "tools" but we also do this to our "culture" and our "mythology."
All hail the remix, improvisation and jazz!
The author wrote
To understand the global appeal of the Halloween holiday, go back to its origins. Those origins are found not in mystic Celtic folklore, but in modern gay culture.
Sorry, that's just a complete fabrication. It's origins are not in modern gay culture. Please try again to spin the author's statement. Twist it around. Make it into something it's not.
The true gay agenda, and it already happened, and now you like it 
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So if I'm a heteronormative cisgender white male who goes to an adult Halloween party,
- 31/10/2017 08:20:03 PM
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I'm not sure I agree with the article's factual grounding.
- 31/10/2017 08:44:33 PM
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I agree so let's rephrase this, gays are the ultimate founders effect 
- 31/10/2017 08:59:19 PM
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Anoka Minnesota had the first city wide Halloween celebration in 1920. Hardly a gay haven.
- 01/11/2017 05:14:21 AM
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What revisionist history is this? Spreading an OPINION piece as Fact? Why?
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Wow I feel you are misreading the author's point and my point.
- 01/11/2017 11:00:09 PM
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Your point, and the author's point, are both wrong.
- 01/11/2017 11:59:52 PM
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I don't like that line, if I were writting it myself I would not use it
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