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Originally Posted by FlamingLonghorn
It honestly doesn't say anything about them. I am not offended very easily either, but I don't use my tolerance of things as a bar for others especially since I am a white straight male who has never faced real discrimination. At the University of Florida white kids dressed up like the UF football players and painted themselves black, the NAACP released a statement that it was offensive. They were "dressing up as someone" too. This is what I don't get. Does dressing up as black historical figures/celebrities (and painting themselves you can dress up without painting, would you not have known who Bozak was if he didn't paint his skin?) matter so much to certain white people that they are willing to spend time arguing about/with the black people who are offended about how they are dumb to be offended? If so, I would say that is a much higher degree of stupidity then being offended by something that can be related to the history of marginalizing an entire people.
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It seems that organizations that are funded as a result of inequality are always offended. It this case have their been any real black people who have stated that Bozak dressing as MJ and painting his face actually offends them?
When I say "real" I mean an actual person and not a agenda driven agency or an academic who is evaluating the historical context. Just a regular person who is offended buy. If someone like that or a large number of people like that exist then yes the minority group can decide it is offensive and the majority shouldn't do it aka the N word. Regular people are highly offended by it. But ... in this case is anyone actually offended
Why it matters to white people and especially young white people is many of us view ourselves as not racist and don't want to be subject to the white guilt and racial tensions of older generations. I think that people no longer want to have to think is this racist in a historical context whenever they do or say something related to race. We want to be able to not care about it anymore. So if I want to dress up as a black historical figure for halloween I can do it with out thinking about racial undertones I know nothing about. Until the last few years when it has turned into a big deal news wise I had no idea 'blackface' was a thing and was offensive. I was a little ignorent of that aspect of history.