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5 Halloween Costumes That Actually Scare Latinx People, Ranked
Wear these at the risk of a panicked beatdown
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5. Hurricane anything
Midwesterners don’t like twisters. Californians fear fires and earthquakes. Latinx people, many of whom hail from coastal countries and states, get nervous at the thought of big incoming storms. Bonus terror points if the eye of the hurricane is mal de ojo.
4. Chancla-wielding mamá
Nothing takes Latinx folks back to their childhood frights faster than seeing Mom carrying around a flip-flop, preparing to whack the shit out of someone.
3. David S. Pumpkins
No knock on Tom Hanks, but this beloved SNL character is so infused with a White absurdist sense of humor that Latinx folks who grew up on the over-the-top surrealism of characters like El Chapulín Colorado fear they’re missing the joke. Is there more to this character we’re not getting? He’s not dressed like a grasshopper, he just wears a suit and dances? That’s it? Is it a language thing? Is he a demonio from hell meant to make us…
