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hoolstoptheheels

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It really isn't quite the same thing. In our new woke world, I think you


are talking about "cultural appropriation". This is assuming all they did was dress in certain clothing. I think that is generally false outrage. Blackface is much more. It conjures all kinds of real instances of discrimination in our country's past - especially minstrel shows - which were all about racial nonsense.

Blackface will be forever offensive and taboo. Objections to stuff like your wife is talking about (or recently I heard about some piece of faux-outrage from a college student objecting to Taco Tuesday in the cafeteria on cultural appropriation grounds), or stuff like an infinite number of genders - I expect those things to be lampooned by future generations. Every time has stuff that marks the specific era but which with the benefit of hindsight are absurd. I think over-wokeness in general will be a biggie for our current time.

(In response to this post by JohnHoo2)

Posted: 09/20/2019 at 10:33AM



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