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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Would an article detailing the exact same thing from the New York Times be more legit? Pc culture is absolute nonsense.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/10/31/us/cultural-appropriation-halloween-costumes.html?smid=tw-share&referer=https://t.co/Q4bWszND3O[/quote]

Yes, an article from the New York Times is more legit.

What does this article say? It says that lots of people are worrying about cultural appropriation. If you don't want to worry about cultural appropriation -- good news! you don't have to! If you want to go in blackface as Kanye West, go right ahead. There will be people who are upset about this, but you don't need to worry about their opinions, because you already know that "PC culture" is nonsense.[/quote]

OP here. Who cares which paper it's in? It's not a matter of worrying; it's the fact that so many busybodies thrive on telling others how to live and careers and reputations can be ruined over perceived slights. And the fact that there are countless well paid college administrators being paid to micromanage and police what consenting adults do outside the classroom on their own time. Is this kind of coddling *really* preparing students for the real world? There's a fine line between colleges teaching youth how to be good citizens and the crap we have here where people are all but told what to think.

We're heading down a slippery slope as far as free speech and the nature of "tolerance" in America and the West. Who would have imagined 20-30 years ago that people could make a career out of being offended for other people and printing out leaflets about "appropriate" attire at off campus house parties?

Just some food for thought next time you write Larla's tuition check or bitch about the ballooning coast of education....cause of useless staff like these people at Wesleyan and SUNY.[/quote]
Except...no.

Blackface has always been insulting and unacceptable. Even when your grandparents wore blackface at their Klan rallies, they knew they were being racist and disgusting, and their aim was to hurt African Americans. You know this.

So, the idea that we are on some slippery slope because your shitbag kids want to keep blackface alive or boil Latinos down to stereotypes is bullshit. Society no longer condones your evil behavior and you are not going to single out and denigrate minorities with impunity anymore. Go cry about it. Even better, keep your asshole kids off campus. [/quote]

Wearing blackface is hardly the same as dressing up as an Indian or geisha.  [/quote]
This is the hill to die on, huh? You have raised kids so braindead, unimaginative, and lazy that the only costumes they can think up involve making cheap stereotypes of others' culture...and you think PC is the problem? [/quote]

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