More blackface "outrage"
Halloween wickedness again:
"Two white Northwestern University students are in hot water after photos of them wearing blackface for Halloween surfaced this week on Facebook and sparked campus-wide outrage.
Student leaders at the Evanston school are holding a forum Thursday night to discuss issues of racism on a campus of overwhelmingly white students that two years ago had a similar incident involving two PhD students wearing blackface.
"While I fully support the principles of free expression, at the same time I am deeply disappointed to see any example of insensitivity that demeans a segment of our community," new Northwestern President Morton O. Schapiro wrote in an campus-wide e-mail. "It is my hope that we can use this incident as a catalyst to reflect upon the values of inclusiveness and respect for others that are central to Northwestern's mission."
One of the students covered himself in blackface and wore a T-shirt with the word "Jamaica" on it. The other dressed as a female tennis player in blackface, a stuffed bra and toting a tennis racket...
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10 comments:
You can't associate with any other races, or you run the risk of offending them.
Sure smells like an invasion of privacy to me. Now if you really want to piss-off comrade Schapiro, dress up like a communist!
Anonymous said...
"Spoken like a true racist."
No, just a realist.
Huh?
I don't get this.
It's Halloween. Everyone is dressing up. Out of all those people one dressed up as a Jamaican and one as (perhaps) one of the Williams sisters.
And that is so terrible (or insensitive) how?
who cares what day it is? THIS IS AMERICA! land of the free. They can damn well dress any way they'd like.
"While I fully support the principles of free expression, at the same time I am deeply disappointed to see any example of insensitivity that demeans a segment of our community," new Northwestern President Morton O. Schapiro wrote in an campus-wide e-mail.
That is - I love freedom of expression for views that I find ok, but don't use it for views and opinions (even in jest) that I don't find palatable.
which is what those who don't like criticism of religious sensitivities say, and make excuses to justify blasphemy laws
"While I fully support the principles of free expression, at the same time I am deeply disappointed to see..."
So in other words he does not support free expression only that which he likes. All other expression must be fixed with seminars.
Free means the power to do things dumb as well as good sir.
What else would you expect to hear from an alleged "intellectual".
So does this mean I get to be "offended" when some homo dresses up in 'white-face' and wig like queen amidala from star wars?
Didn't think so.
The PC folks:
"You are free, free to agree with me!"
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