Wheaton College girls costume deemed offensive and racist (race, kids)

[GeePee]

https://www.newsday.com/sports/colle...ive-1.14726503

Is this PC world of new becoming a little one sided?
The movie that she was mocking and called racist for was a movie of black people mocking white people.
The irony is so great it may make your head spin.
Maybe I'm missing something here.

[robr2]

IMHO, if any costume that under consideration requires making your skin darker, then said costume should be given a second or third thought.

[OHNot4Me]

I thought the whole point of a costume is to portray yourself as someone/something you are NOT.

If the PC Police will only allow me to dress up as an overweight, middle aged white woman, what's the point?

[GeePee]

Originally Posted by robr2

IMHO, if any costume that under consideration requires making your skin darker, then said costume should be given a second or third thought.

But a Hollywood movie about people whitening their skin and mocking a race is fair game?

[robr2]

Originally Posted by GeePee

But a Hollywood movie about people whitening their skin and mocking a race is fair game?

Is that the premise of the the movie? I've never seen it.

It was made 15 years ago. I doubt that movie could/would be made today.

[GeePee]

Yes. It is the exact premise of the movie. Wherein lies the irony of the whole thing.

[GeoffD]

So an Uncle Remus costume singing Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah is politically incorrect in 2017?

[timberline742]

Kids. Then they lied about it and tried to cover it up. The cover up is always worse than the offense. It's getting them barred from a tourney. Hope they learn their lesson.

[GeePee]

Originally Posted by GeoffD

So an Uncle Remus costume singing Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah is politically incorrect in 2017?

Are you not getting what I'm putting down here. The movie is about black men dressing in white face, and mocking the culture of white women. Stereotypical valley girl stuff I would Imagine. That in itself raises no eyebrow as offensive. But someone portraying the person in the movie doing so is the offender.
heres where I'm finding trouble in this.

[bohemka]

There's a pretty handy flowchart for such things:

Is putting on blackface OK?

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No.