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Not to blanket shame the entire shack, because it was a huge part of my internet life for a good long while and i straight up love a ton of you fuckers, but this whole 'LOLZ WHY THE MINORITIES GETTING SO OFFENDED LOL OFFENSE CULTURE LOL POLITICAL CORRECTNESS' shit makes me hate what this place is.

There is no offense culture. There is only people realizing they can now talk without getting curbstomped, coupled with some stupid people saying stupid things on either side. Protip: there will always be stupid people. 5 stupid tumblr posts dont make the entire discussion of race/gender/sex relations in america 'offense culture' or whatever it is you people call it. (see what i did there)

So how do i answer your question? 2 parts.

1. A history lesson.
- Black people used to be treated as cattle in this country. Yes, slavery exists all over the world in many different times, but we're in america so lets stick to america. That christmas pete character in denmark or something wears blackface and its fine over there so shits obviously different for different places. Part of the history of that time was systemized murder, torture, rape, and brutality. When we started moving away from it we still had a few hundred years of klan lynching and cross burnings and murdering little girls and our media depicting us as dumb comedic relief. Blackface was used in a dehumanizing way to portray dancing idiots and subhumans in movies. 'Ohh look at that dumb dancing negro SO FUNNY!'

- I dont know if you know, but we as a country fucking ERADICATED native americans. Go google 'trail of tears' and then we can workshop your 'me smokem wampum' costume. ill wait. You walking around in feathers and war paint is functionally equivalent to a 'black people costume' of a loincloth and one of those balls and chains. Or half a foot and whip marks and a sign that says 'hi im kunta kinte'.

- WW2 happened. Hitler tortured and murdered a whole fuck ton of people. Go to a party in Russia with a Stalin costume on or try out your best Pol Pot costume in the pacific. When you get stabbed to death, we'll compare your stabbing with prince henry's 'huge deal'.*

I've said this before (http://www.shacknews.com/chatty?id=32534152#item_32534152) and ill say it again, 'oh why do people get so hung up on this old thing no one cares anymore'. No. It was shitty to BEGIN WITH and now those people have enough say and power to TELL YOU ITS SHITTY NOW.

2.
"But I disagree. What is or isn't racist IS up to me, just like it's also up to you and to everyone else capable of holding an opinion." Yes, well so is 'who is an asshole' defined by you, and me, and everyone.

If you go to a party dressed as hitler or some vaudeville nigga character, this is a FREE country, its your choice.
If the people at the party then the majority of those people (aka society) turn around and say you're an asshole, this is a FREE country, its their choice.

The reason you have to make this post, and ask that question? Thats because society as a whole as deemed it asshole behavior. WHY? Because events in history HAPPENED and people that experienced them were scarred or influenced by them in deep meaningful ways. So you're welcome to grow up and be ignorant of history and decide to 'take it back lol' or do whatever the fuck you want, but you cant bitch when society comments on your actions.

*p.s. Somoene going 'aww thats poor taste' isn't a huge deal. Any commentary at all on your behavior that you don't like isn't 'making a huge deal'.

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