Right, do you have any evidence of that? I can't find anything that supports that claim.

Do you have any evidence of that? I tried Google searching, but all I could find was one article about some fraternity houses in Illinois that were taking a while to fix code violations. I don't see anything about special permissions.

I didn't, nor was I ever tempted to join a fraternity, but I don't really get the hate for them. I understand what you're saying about that attitude, but that's no different than country clubs and stuff like that. What happened at the party is a tragedy, but I don't see it as that different than the cancer deaths that…

Kurt Schneider (the guy whose channel that is) has done all these awesome arrangements and mashups of various songs. He doesn't usually sing in his videos (though he does in a couple), but he directs all of them, and he plays a bunch of instruments. He even does some videos with nontraditional instruments:

Yeah! She used to sing in some YouTube videos with Kurt Schneider and Sam Tsui when they were all Yale students together.

She used to do some pretty awesome YouTube video collaborations with Kurt Schneider and a bunch of his friends when they were all at Yale. Here's one of my favorites:

Well, Southwest didn't do anything wrong, nor are they responsible for making sure that disabled passengers can make it to the gate, so she definitely doesn't have legal standing to sue them. Whether or not she can sue the airport (or whatever company employs the Skycaps) is unclear, but I kind of doubt it. There's…

Name: J Alfred Prufrock (not really but I'm not posting my real name online)

Haha, I was just about to go back to that other article and find the comment that said "There's no place for objectification in feminism." It had a bunch of stars, if I recall correctly.

Granted, I don't live in LA, but in my (admittedly very limited) experience, white tank tops, sagging pants, backward baseball caps, and teen pregnancy all seem pretty generically gang related.

Right, and I don't disagree. I think this photo (and making fun of the less fortunate in general) is absolutely tasteless and offensive. I just don't think it's racist, which is what Mark claimed in the article.

It provides evidence that there are white gangs who wear sagging pants and loosely fitted clothing, which is exactly what "and our sister Dot" disputed the existence of.

And so Mark should have used this article to talk about the fact that many powerful, racist people draw that subconscious parallel, but he didn't. Instead, he accused high school girls of being racist. We can't root that idea out of our society without talking about it. Getting upset at these cheerleaders is…

It looks like we'll just have to agree to disagree on this one, but I will note that the irony of accusing someone else of condescension and then closing your comment with the punchline of the "Condescending Wonka" meme is palpable.

If Mark had said "racially loaded," then I would have no issue with his comment, because I agree that a race discussion is tangentially related to the picture in question. He didn't say "racially loaded" though, he said "racist."

I didn't say it wiped away stereotypes, I was merely giving a counterexample to disprove your claim that only minorities dressed like that.

I respectfully disagree. I think the primary reason racism won't go away in our lifetimes is because it's easier to look at this picture and think "Ha! I would never do that, because I'm tolerant and conscious of my privilege!" without actually examining the underlying issues. The approach that you and Mark and many…

I agree that it's racist that our culture as a whole associates gang culture with black and Latino men. That's exactly what I called Mark out for doing in my original comment, associating gang culture with specific races. That's the real issue here — not that some teenagers in California took a picture. I do disagree…

First of all, that style of dress isn't unique to those races. HBO is good about removing copyright-infringing videos, but go watch season 2 of the Wire, when Herc goes around buying drugs from the white gangs down at the waterfront.

But the fact that it's predominantly associated with one group doesn't mean that making fun of it is making fun of that group. For example, the Lonely Island's song I'm on a Boat made fun of hip-hop music. Was that racist? Being a Dickhead's Cool makes fun of predominantly white hipsters in England. Is that racist?