Anonymous wrote:Wearing a black belt if you are not a black belt master was also off limits. Just ban everything. tons of people love Kung fu and anime culture. Next thing Cosplay will also be cultural appropriation.

The reason the nytimes had to write an article on it and thankfully most of be commentators on the article agree is that he policing has gone way too far. It's not just about "black face"

Anonymous wrote:Isn’t college a place where our teenagers become young adults and learn to think for themselves???
How will these graduates ever survive in the real world if they have to “check in” with a college professor to “get permission?”
Ridiculous.

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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.

Evidently plenty of people care about which paper it's in. And with reason, given that some papers have a reasonably good (though not perfect) reputation for reporting facts that are accurate, while other papers don't.

Is that you, Judith Miller?

As for people supposedly making a career out of being offended -- people make very good livings off all kinds of things I find ludicrous. Advising companies about how to get federal contracts, for example. Trying to improve the reputations of companies that jack up the prices of generic medications because they can. Life coaching and potty training consulting. I'm not going to get upset about one more ludicrous way to pay the bills.

Anonymous wrote:Or maybe they will shape a more thoughtful, less offensive "real world". After all, the social consciousness of each generation does its part to shape the environment in our society. Who knows how things will really change and unfold. Should be interesting to see, in any case....

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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.

Evidently plenty of people care about which paper it's in. And with reason, given that some papers have a reasonably good (though not perfect) reputation for reporting facts that are accurate, while other papers don't.

As for people supposedly making a career out of being offended -- people make very good livings off all kinds of things I find ludicrous. Advising companies about how to get federal contracts, for example. Trying to improve the reputations of companies that jack up the prices of generic medications because they can. Life coaching and potty training consulting. I'm not going to get upset about one more ludicrous way to pay the bills.

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Anonymous wrote:You know it goes more than that. The policing never stops. Sombrero hats are off limits? A Japanese person actually wearing a japanese outfit is off limits. No one is talking about black face here. Cultural appropriation has extended to everything. Anything can be worthy of an offense.

Yes it is nonsense, and you are probably part of the problem.

Is somebody getting arrested for wearing a sombrero?

No but the insufferable complaining about nothing and guilty white people getting offended for other people is an utter waste of time.

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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.

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Anonymous wrote:You know it goes more than that. The policing never stops. Sombrero hats are off limits? A Japanese person actually wearing a japanese outfit is off limits. No one is talking about black face here. Cultural appropriation has extended to everything. Anything can be worthy of an offense.

Yes it is nonsense, and you are probably part of the problem.

Is somebody getting arrested for wearing a sombrero?

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Anonymous wrote: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

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.

Anonymous wrote:You know it goes more than that. The policing never stops. Sombrero hats are off limits? A Japanese person actually wearing a japanese outfit is off limits. No one is talking about black face here. Cultural appropriation has extended to everything. Anything can be worthy of an offense.

Yes it is nonsense, and you are probably part of the problem.