Halloween: an enchanting holiday celebrating the taboo and unusual, a time for kids to enjoy trick-or-treating with their friends and family, an opportunity for people to don colorful and creative costumes, becoming someone or something which they enjoy, admire or find worthy of mimicking. And now, a cesspool of political correctness.

It started out innocently enough. People took offense to college students dressing as tequila-wielding Mexicans and black-faced teens masquerading about doing stereotypical impressions.

Gradually, the list of costumes considered “offensive” expanded. Now, in 2017, almost everything offends someone. Your child wants to go as a Native American? Well I’m sorry to inform you that you’ve raised a racist monster.

Even dressing as popular Disney characters is considered off limits. Little girls who dress as Elsa are enforcing “white beauty”, and dressing as Moana is considered “cultural appropriation.”  Donald Trump costumes are considered “triggering.” Colleges are threatening probes and searches if a student wears an outfit that is deemed “offensive.”

Accepting some Halloween costumes as offensive was much easier when they were actually offensive. The stench of political correctness has permeated one of the most liberating traditions in America: dressing up as something you aren’t. And now that children aren’t even allowed to dress as their favorite Disney Princesses, it’s time to stop.

If people want to dress as Trump, it is their right to do so. If they want to go as Mexican, Native American, Asian, white, black or anything at all, it is their right to do so. And if a child wants to dress up as their favorite Disney character, it is absolutely their right to do so.

The left-wing radicals responsible for this cult of outrage love freedom, as long as it’s not freedom of expression. They’re all for diversity, as long as it’s not diversity of thought. If people would stop focusing on playing the victim, they could take the time to realize that everyone isn’t out to get them every time they dress up as a character of another race.

Dressing up in Halloween costumes is not representative of a militant force of evil, privileged white people out to get the minorities. The Left is trying their damnedest to ruin Halloween, and the sensible among us shouldn’t stand for it.

So the next time you see someone out wearing a feather headdress or sombrero, give them a pat on the back for exercising their rights.