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Wait, Sachi Feris said this? THE Sachi Feris? The blogger and part time elementary school Spanish teacher Sachi Ferris????

Susan Scafidi, author of Who Owns Culture: Appropriation and Authenticity in American Law, said the debate really took off in 2015 when Yale warned its students not to wear certain costumes on Halloween, provoking "a moment of outrage on both sides that really polarized the issue," she said.

OK, but what about the thousands of white kids who want to dress up like a character from Moana for Halloween?

Scafidi said to determine whether you may be crossing a line, look at the Maui costume Disney pulled off its shelves.

"This costume was essentially his brown skin with the tattoos and the little loincloth in the middle. And people looked at it and said, 'you know, I'm not sure if having a child of some other color wearing this character's brown skin to masquerade is necessarily very respectful or a good idea.'"