Halloween isn’t just for kids anymore.  

In 2023, about 70% of Americans will participate in Halloween, and will spend an estimated $12.2 billion. Yes, that’s with a “b”. This will surpass last year’s $10.6 billion.

The average American will spend $31.93 on candy, $19.42 on Halloween décor and $36.84 on costumes.

Those putting out this avalanche of money will, of course, be adults. And a lot of those costumes will be worn by adults at parties across the nation.

This will be especially true in San Francisco.

In 1979, Halloween in its Castro District shifted from being a children’s event to a celebration among homosexuals and lesbians.

In 2002, 500,000 people celebrated Halloween in the Castro and four people were stabbed.

It continued to grow into a massive annual street party until 2006, when a shooting wounded nine people and prompted the city to call off the event.

In 2007, 600 police were deployed in the Castro on Halloween. By 2010, San Francisco had banned the event in the Castro, directing celebrants to various balls and parties elsewhere.

Yet in 2023 Halloween will return to the Castro after The Civic Joy Fund pledged over $100,000 to reimburse merchants for hosting events, like parties and tarot readings.

But there’s another force working to suppress Halloween joy among its participants: Political Correctness.

Articles now highlight a series of costumes it’s Politically Incorrect to wear on Halloween. So it’s now virtually impossible to enjoy this occasion without fearing that you’ll hurt the sensitivities of almost every group imaginable.

For example: 

Adolf Hitler: It’s offensive to Jews and Holocaust survivors. And it could remind liberals of the Republicans’ agenda.

Homeless: Such costumes will hurt the feelings of bums who won’t be attending Halloween parties anyway. 

Illegal alien: It’s not nice to spotlight people who constantly violate the immigration laws of the United States.

Terrorist: You might upset Islamics, who make up the vast majority of the world’s terrorists.

Others on the list of groups that uber-liberals believes it’s Politically Incorrect to dress up as include: 

• Blacks: If you’re white.
• Naughty Priests: It’s offensive to mock religious hypocrites who violate the bodies of children.
• “Tranny Granny”:  It’s cruel to make fun of men who have sophisticated surgery to make themselves look like women. 
• Mexicans: (such as a woman wearing a mariachi outfit or a man sporting a sombrero, serape and drooping moustache).
• Pimp: It’s offensive to blacks—especially those who make their living through the sale of women’s bodies.
• Handmaid’s Tale: Because it’s cruel to remind people that Republicans are trying to eliminate rights for women.

• Sexy nurse:  Nursing is a serious profession—and everybody knows that nurses never have romances with doctors. 
• Indian Princess: If you’re not an American Indian. Indians could be offended by your “cultural appropriation.”
• Fat costumes: It will hurt the feelings of people who can barely fit into an airplane seat—many of them because they simply eat too much. 
• Crazed Killer:  Because it’s not fair to make fun of psychopathic murderers who prey on innocent men, women and children. 
• Prisoner: It’s not nice to make fun of people who are serving time for victimizing others. 
• The Wall: Wearing an imitation brick wall reminds people that millions of Hispanics have illegally violated America’s immigration laws—and millions more intend to.
• Arab Sheik: It’s not nice to dress like an OPEC board member in a long flowing robe and headdress.  Especially when they’re jacking up oil prices.

• Sexy Harem Slave: Consider this the flip side of “Arab Sheik.”  It’s uncool to remind people that women throughout the Islamic world are treated like chattel. 
• “Droopers”: An obvious parody of the “Hooters” outfit, this features a fake pair of drooping breasts, thus winning it dual charges of “ageism” and “sexism.”
• Geisha: You could be accused of “cultural appropriation.” 
• Robert E. Lee:  Once a Southern icon of the Civil War, he is now damned as a racist defender of slavery.
• Escaped Mental Patient: Wearing an imitation straitjacket makes fun of real-life whackjobs who need to be restrained—for their own safety and that of others.
• Indian Snake Charmer: This costume supposedly appropriates Middle Eastern culture and has “disturbing sexual undertones”—if you equate snakes with penises.
• Donald Trump: It’s not nice to remind people of the man who tried to overturn the 2020 election and intends to overturn the 2024 one.