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wearing costumes at a costume party is racist

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?

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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...sity-1.3863522

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

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/uploa...-Avalanche.jpg

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

Another steaming pile of the brown stuff. :doh:

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

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.

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

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

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

The white mans burden. :03:

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Originally Posted by u crank (Post 2448195)

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.

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Originally Posted by HunterICX (Post 2448272)

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

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Originally Posted by u crank (Post 2448195)

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

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Originally Posted by u crank (Post 2448279)

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

:agree:

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: