wearing costumes at a costume party is racist

[Bilge_Rat]

maybe I am getting too old or am totally disconnected from today's PC culture, but I have trouble seeing how wearing a "costume" at a "costume party" is "racist".

Is there a list of approved "costumes" circulating somewhere with "approved" costumes?


Queen's University investigates 'shockingly racist' student costume party

Queen's University is investigating after photos appeared online showing white people dressed as Buddhist monks, Middle Eastern sheiks, Mexicans and Viet Cong fighters in rice hats during an off-campus student party in Kingston, Ont.

Partygoers wore "inappropriate costumes" at the event Saturday in the University District, the Alma Mater Society said in a statement on Tuesday. The district is a residential area surrounding the campus.

"These events undermine Queen's ability to provide a welcoming and respectful campus environment," says the society's vice-president, Carolyn Thompson.

"We need to have an open and productive dialogue about race and racism on campus."

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/costume-party-photos-queen-s-university-1.3863522

[Oberon]

Yeah, even I, as a member of the PC police, don't really understand this whole Cultural Appropriation thing.

[Skybird]

No matter how clever the PC moves and arguments, PC always is like the old Avalanche board game by Parker, from the 80s: everything notoriously and unavoidably degenerates and falls from some higher ground to the lowest bottom.

http://www.e-s-g.eu/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/Parker-Avalanche.jpg

[Buddahaid]

What a load of rot. I'm planning on wearing one of those costumes for Mardi Gras next year. I guess I'm a racist now.

http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/05NC3Swhbms/maxresdefault.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDg07hd0BhQ

[STEED]

Another steaming pile of the brown stuff. :doh:

[GT182]

You know what runs downhill. And it looks like it came from Carolyn Thompson. She must be the Campus Dictator.

[AVGWarhawk]

If someone does not like it=racism. Simple formula in today's world. If that does not work a label is applied that ends in "phobia". It is getting very tiresome to say the least.

[u crank]

I swear these people stay awake at night thinking of new ways to be offended.

[Cybermat47]

I hate to be that guy, but would they be complaining if minorities dressed up as white people?

[Rockin Robbins]

Of course not. As Larry King says, it is impossible to be a racist if you are not white. It's a unique and special talent that only we have. I feel special!:D:D:D

[Oberon]

The white mans burden. :03:

[HunterICX]

I swear these people stay awake at night thinking of new ways to be offended.

I think it's actually quite adorable that people think they can get through their lives without being offended once in a while.

[u crank]

I think it's actually quite adorable that people think they can get through their lives without being offended once in a while.

I'm offended by a lot of things. Poverty, sickness, unjust wars.....people dressing up and having fun...not so much. :D

[Commander Wallace]

I swear these people stay awake at night thinking of new ways to be offended.

I'm offended by a lot of things. Poverty, sickness, unjust wars.....people dressing up and having fun...not so much. :D


:agree:

[Oberon]

It's a strange world we live in at the moment because on one hand you've got people who get offended at the strangest of things, but on the other hand you've got people trying their very hardest to be as offensive as possible. It's like a bloody metronome of offensiveness.
Whatever happened to stability? :k_confused:

[Rhodes]

Do not know, but could some of this commercial be offensive in today's world?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNJTAaorh8A :06:

[Skybird]

Some PC addicts are so hilarious in their - as they see it - normal behaviour, that they do no more need to wear costumes indeed to be considered properly dressed for a costume ball.

[Jimbuna]

If someone does not like it=racism. Simple formula in today's world. If that does not work a label is applied that ends in "phobia". It is getting very tiresome to say the least.

Rgr that :yep:

[Wolferz]

Offense can't be given unless taken.

I'm not a deplorable..

I'm a Juggalo.


Would the PC crowd be offended if I dropped my nuts in their soup?

PLOOP!

[yubba]

Between 2008 and 2016,,, we won that war.

[Platapus]

No one can tell someone else what they should or should not consider offensive.

What I don't understand is why because someone finds something offensive that they feel that something has to change?

I am offended by a lot of things in life. But I don't expect people to change. I would like people to change, but would fight against any movement that would force/require people to change.

My bottom line

-I have the right to be offended by anything I feel is offensive
-Everyone else has the right to ignore me.
-I have the right to make personal choices based on my offended feelings
-I have the responsibility to accept the consequences of my personal choices.
- I have to accept that other people may simply not care what I find offensive.

But this whole concept that if "I" feel something is wrong, "you" must change is ... uh.. well ...wrong. :D

[Oberon]

No one can tell someone else what they should or should not consider offensive.

What I don't understand is why because someone finds something offensive that they feel that something has to change?

I am offended by a lot of things in life. But I don't expect people to change. I would like people to change, but would fight against any movement that would force/require people to change.

My bottom line

-I have the right to be offended by anything I feel is offensive
-Everyone else has the right to ignore me.
-I have the right to make personal choices based on my offended feelings
-I have the responsibility to accept the consequences of my personal choices.
- I have to accept that other people may simply not care what I find offensive.

But this whole concept that if "I" feel something is wrong, "you" must change is ... uh.. well ...wrong. :D

I think the key thing is whether someone is being offensive in order to deliberately provoke a negative reaction from someone or a section of society.

[yubba]

well in this country,, you don't have the right not to be offended,, if you are that fragile you need to crawl down a hole and pull the rock in after you..we've played this game for 8 years prepare to be offended,,,I don't walk on egg shells or kiss butt I got the notifications to prove it,.

[Eichhörnchen]

D'you think it might be one of those "fake news" stories people have been complaining about? Anyone seen one of those? I found this in one of my Angling magazines this morning, but I'm not sure it's for real:

YUL BRYNNER SLAMS LOOKEE-LIKEES:
Yul Brynner, who died in 1985, hit out yesterday at Stars who are imitating his unique hairstyle (i.e. none), asking why they can't find their own look. "I'm getting a bit fed up with it", he said... "It's not all beer and skittles being bald, why you have to wear hats that rest on your ears all the time, plus I never get offered parts as Santa Claus at this time of year... crazy!"

http://i.imgur.com/IU2LmOS.jpg

Yul Brynner yesterday: "I'm fed up with it"

[Eichhörnchen]

http://i.imgur.com/WlazTZj.jpg "I never got to play Fidel Castro either", he added.