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Originally Posted by SebC
Who are we? Hopefully, we are objective, logical and rational.
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Objective, logical and rational enough to simply not use black make up to appear black? It's not like someone needs to bend over backwards to avoid being offensive in this situation.
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Originally Posted by SebC
The alternative is that anything that someone deems offensive is treated as improper, and that's clearly untenable as anyone can be offended by anything at any time.
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I agree that there's a line. But there's a difference between one person being offended for the sake of being offended and a group of people being offended because of the history of the offense.
We're also talking about a teacher. The simple fact is, whether you believe its logical, intelligent or not, some people take offense to blackface of any kind. A teacher should know this and avoid it.
Waving is a social norm in our society, blackface is not. So I don't think the comparison is at all fair. However, if you knew a large population of people who took offense to being waved at, and you simply continued waving at them because you had the right to do so and didn't care about offending them, that's your prerogative - you obviously wouldn't expect them to like you and treat you as anything but the dickhead you're being. It's really not much of a challenge to simply not wear blackface and not offend anyone in doing so. Most people go there whole lives doing so.