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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So you think college students should show moral outrage whenever another college student tells someone s/he disagrees with to shut the fuck up?  Or is it just when they tell authority figures to STFU?  [/quote]The fact that you even have to tell someone to exercise respect when choosing a costume says volumes about a broken moral compass.

Why anyone would purposely wear something fully knowing that it's offensive and hurtful has deeper issues regardless of your right for free expression.  [/quote]

Yawn.  [/quote]

No response eh[/quote]

Suppose some student decided to dress up as corrupt dictator Robert Mugabe?  (It's college, so kids have pretty far-ranging ideas.)  Would some students find that offensive?! It would be hard for them to argue "cultural misappropriation" unless they wanted to embrace Mugabe's "culture".  [/quote]

Mugabe supporters would certainly find it offensive. And they are black, so no kiddin'[/quote]

Are there any Mugabe supporters left anywhere, other than those who lined their pockets along with him?

I had a neighbor who a few years ago dressed up as Marion Barry with a "posse of prostitutes" for a Halloween party.  We all thought it was a scream.  However, my guess is that the obscenity-screaming girl at Yale would have found that offensive.  [/quote]And I'm sure your neighbor was in black face to complete the costume.  How delightful you and your neighbor are.[/quote]

Not the PP but I think it's sounds pretty funny. You know, no one screamed offense at costumes of Romney, Trump,  rob ford, et al.  How about  a Christie costume involving a cell phone and giant smoothie? Offensive to fat loudmouths? barry made himself into a caricature. He was a public figure who smoked crack, liked hookers and liked to talk trash about Asian carryout owners. Yeah, he is fair game for Halloween costumes. Just as those others are. [/quote]You can whitewash it (pun intended) any way you want.  None of the examples you list compares to blackface and it's history.  None.  Period.[/quote]

Who said that person was wearing blackface? Or are you contending that no non-black person can pretend to be Marion Barry for Halloween ever because it is de facto racist? Do you understand that he was a public figure? Are only white public figures allowed to be satirized? Btw - just saying "period" does not give you the final word on an argument. [/quote]Give it up.  Not the PP but you can gyrate around this all you want.  Blackface is despicable no matter how you spin it.  And I notice you don't agree which says far more than your dance around the fact.[/quote]+1.  I've noticed that also.  Most likely those who are finding it abhorrent are black but can't be sure. [/quote]

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