From deep in the culture war trenches, we bring you the latest in the annual War on Halloween that Social Justice™ jihadists wage against fun, free speech, and Western civilization itself.
‘We all know’ what ‘spooky’ really means, claims TikTok race hustler
A family member of mine once took a long tumble down the woke rabbit hole to insanity. (This was many years before “woke” became an actual term in the pop culture lexicon, a harbinger of things to come.)
In her journey of awokening, among other newfound and equally wrong conclusions she drew about reality, she became adamant that the word “history” is a joining of “his” and “story,” and hence a reflection of the androcentric worldview that pervades the Patriarchy™ and silences female voices that would presumably offer a counter-narrative.
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As “history” is not etymologically linked to “his story,” I and others gently tried to push back, to no avail; she would not budge in her pseudo-religious belief that she had discovered the misogynistic origin of the word.
Similarly, this idiot below, exuding all of the loud, unearned confidence of a Whoopi Goldberg, took to TikTok to demand that we stop using the term “spooky” on Halloween. As the caption on the video indicates, she believes “spooky” to be a racist slur for black people.
There's a new word you're banned from using pic.twitter.com/MWbodJ9w8O
— TaraBull (@TaraBull808) October 25, 2025
As an aside, why these people feel the need to perform the wildly dramatic circular hand motions to buttress their point, I’ll never understand.
On the substance, of course, the lady is historically and etymologically illiterate.
Via Garmmarphobia (emphasis added):
The phrase “spooky season” showed up in the early 1900s and reappeared every ten or fifteen years until it began increasing in popularity at the end of the 20th century.
The earliest example we’ve found uses the expression to mean a time in autumn in which unexplained things are said to be happening. In this passage, a British journal devoted to the paranormal cites reports in a London tabloid of mysterious events:
“The ‘spooky’ season has now overflowed into the ‘Daily Graphic,’ which has several times lately published testimony to happenings which may be explained as coincidence—if anyone wishes to do so in defiance of all laws of probability” (from Light: A Journal of Psychical, Occult, and Mystical Research, Sept. 16, 1905)…
Some people have complained about the expression because one of the meanings of the noun “spook” (source of the adjective “spooky”) is an offensive term for a Black person. But this racist sense didn’t show up in English until nearly a century and a half after “spook” first appeared in its ghostly sense, according to citations in the Oxford English Dictionary.
Example:
“The Brandon entity allowed to fondle children in public for his entire career, to their visceral horror and disgust, with seemingly limitless impunity from legal or political consequences, is spooky.”
See there? No racial overtones whatsoever.
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Spooky!
How many perfectly good — and sometimes great — words have been abandoned by the wayside simply because some DEI moron interpreted them the wrong way, intoxicated by a devastating witch’s brew of ahistoricism and hubris?
Take, for instance, “niggard,” a fine word and casualty of PC culture which has nothing at all to do with race, but rather means a “person meanly stingy and covetous; one who spends grudgingly; a stingy, parsimonious fellow; a miser.”
Despite its innocuousness, no one in his or her right mind who doesn’t want to fend off a feral BLM mob in the streets or sit through an hour-long struggle session with an HR manager at work, or worse, would dare use “niggard,” no matter how apropos.
Thus the richness of the English language is diluted to appease self-righteous hall nincompoops.
