Yeah, as a big-assed Jew, I'm in complete agreement.
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Hah. If there were no big-assed Jews, most of my family wouldn't exist.
The party was going fine until these guys from Pi Lambda Lambda showed up.
Can you research how many times Sigma Alpha Epsilon is involved with scandal? They say all chapters of greek orgs are different, but they were notorious assholes at every college I ever visited and I have actually started to notice that they come up every time a greek does something offensive or illegal. WHAT IS THAT…
That's fine, and I don't disagree with you, but I would caution you to be more careful with how you say things in these situations. There's a long history of having the issues of people of color being derailed and sidelined. And as a WoC I'm quite frankly sick and tired of not being able to talk about the issues that…
Okay, then given the option to rephrase, I would have written "I'm happy about this decision of the college, but it really highlights how much quicker schools are to respond to problems which become public (racist Christmas parties) than to problems which are well-known but which remain out of the public eye…
It's my understanding that this party has been going on for years. I can pretty much guarantee you that somebody working for the university has seen pictures of previous years' parties/knew it was going on, or that they should have if they were paying the least bit of attention to what their students were up to. They…
From a white person, to other white people: knock that shit off. Just... have an ugly sweater party, okay?
My husband's Scottish and I lived there for 5 years. One year, his niece's friend dressed as a Golliwog for Halloween. My SIL thought it was cute. Thank fuck I wasn't there that year or else I would have lost my shit. (I'm black.)
Oh, come on. They totally have black friends who are totally cool with this.
I lived in Scotland for three years and I'm moving back next year because I'm marrying a Scot. At Halloween, it's not uncommon to see people there doing blackface. My fiancé would never do it, but he has friends who do. And the joyful ignorance with which they seem to do it makes me choke with rage.
I'm more surprised that this isn't an isolated incident. Every year there's more and more stories like this. Hell, when I was in college a few years ago, a member of student government showed up to a party in black-face. How do people seriously think this is ok? They're past the youthful ignorance stage. It seems more…
It is sad that even young white people appear clueless - their 80 yr old grandparents is somewhat understandable, they were a product of an ignorant hateful era, not that hatred was ever acceptable.
Didn't Clemson suspend all their frats after that young man died? Why are they back? Why can't they just be gone?
is it wrong that I had this mental image of them getting introduced to some real Crips? I'm not saying it's right...just you know. Don't poke a bear and then get mad when he bites.
I'm not trying to minimize this problem, and I'm sorry if it came off that way. I just want to maximize the other one. Which is also a problem of racism; colleges are much quicker to respond to fraternities doing stupid things in public than to fraternities systematically excluding non-white students. Or to cultures…
(and probably collectively no black friends)
"Some white students didn't think it was a big deal and didn't understand why there was such a strong reaction."