And here is another reason why free speech should be allowed - the school now knows what a racist that RA is and how she will treat some people because of their skin color or race.

So, now they can fire the racist bitch!

now they can fire the racist bitch!

Please. They'll promote her, and give her a pay raise in the process. And give her more responsibility. And encourage her to come back and become their Title XI coordinator, after she's picked up a PhD in gender studies.

Search your feelings, you know this to be true.

On the bright side, it does prove that institutional racism does exist.

The word racist is subject to a double standard by black activists and social justice warriors.

The definition comes from applying the sociological definition of racism (which we understand as institutional racism) and a misapplication of a grammatical rule.

Racism, according to sociologist Nicki Lisa Cole, "refers to a variety of practices, beliefs, social relations, and phenomena that work to reproduce a racial hierarchy and social structure that yield superiority, power, and privilege for some, and discrimination and oppression for others. Racism takes representational, ideological, discursive, interactional, institutional, structural, and systemic forms."

From this, the disingenuous social justice warriors (and "disingenuous social justice warrior" is probably a redundant expression) claim that blacks can't be racist, because they were never the favored race in "institutional, structural, and systemic forms."

Let's leave aside that that position is at least debatable. I would aver that blacks are the favored race today.

Therefore, according to them, only whites can be racist.

But even by the sociological definition of racism, since when do you have to be the beneficiary of racism in a racist society to be a racist?

You don't have to live under a communist government to be a communist. You can be a communist regardless of the government you live under. If you believe in and support communism, you're a communist, and it doesn't matter what form of government you actually live under.

Same with theist. You are a theist if you believe in a god or gods, even if you live in a society where religion is outlawed.

But somehow, we allowed the social justice warriors to change the rules for "racism" and "sexism." In order to be a racist or a sexist, you must live in a racist or sexist society that favors members of your race or gender. Otherwise you can't be racist or sexist.

Prejudiced, yes, but you cannot be racist or sexist if you're non-white or a woman respectively.

Horse manure. The dictionary does not define -ist as someone who lives under the specified system that benefits them. If you believe in and advocate for favoritism based on race, you are a racist, even in the most academic sense of the term.

I am a person who believes that people should be judged "by the content of their character," as Martin Luther King said in one of the most beautiful speeches of our age.

I think we should try to help people who are economically challenged, but economically challenged people, no matter what their skin color or background.

If you dislike a people because of their race, you are racist. In some neighborhoods, blacks hate Koreans more than whites because they own grocery stores etc. And some blacks hate jews, probably because they view them as successful--nevermind that Jews have a longer history of oppression, inlcuding genocide, than blacks.
It used to be that over acts of racism were called out, and justly so. But now it is almost impossible to find such overt acts anymore but the continued poverty of minorities MUST be somebody's fault, so this imaginary "systemic racism" thing is imagined, and since systemic it must be the fault of all whites. It is funny but I have never been properly indoctrinated into this system, never seen it in action, never heard it mentioned (ok, this is how we keep the darkies down), and can't even imagine how it would work. But don't let reality stop a good meme.

Hooped earrings "actually come from a historical background of oppression and exclusion," wrote Alegria Martinez, according to The Claremont Independent. "Why should white girls be able to take part in this culture?"

So, no pirate costumes this Halloween?

The only difference between white people who strictly avoid cultural appropriation and white nationalists is that white nationalists stick to European culture because they believe they are too good to take anything from other cultures and the cultural appropriation loons do it because they believe they aren't good enough take anything from other cultures. Different intent, but the same result if you push the logic of those arguments far enough. They're all nuts.

Cultural appropriation is not a thing. At least not where black Americans are concerned. They live under the same laws that whites do.

We live in the same country and are governed by the same laws. Why should individual expressions of personal taste be restricted to one demographic, but off limits to another?

Yes, the Native Americans might have a legitimate grievance, since reservations are not subject to state laws. And the ceremonial headdress worn as a Halloween costume is certainly disrespectful. It does mean something to the Native Americans who wore it.

But we don't need a new phrase to describe it. Just call it disrespect.

But cornrows, rap music, dreadlocks, etc. That's all fair game. Blacks didn't invent rap anyway. They repackaged Skeltonic verse (aka tumbling verse) then claimed it was theirs.

And the ceremonial headdress worn as a Halloween costume is certainly disrespectful. It does mean something to the Native Americans who wore it.

A friend of mine dressed as a pregnant nun one Halloween. He's kinda known for his outlandish and outrageous costumes. That was disrespectful, although a funny costume. The feather headdress worn as a Halloween costume is insensitive, but no disrespect or insult is intended by the wearer. If anything, the wearer of a Native American warrior costume is displaying respect for Native Americans, albeit in a shallow and unserious way.

And not all Native American tribes wore eagle headdresses, although almost all of them did hold the eagle in reverent regard.