Maybe this is what Bill Maher was talking about ,we have become too politically correct

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77. This issue is very interesting.

I have, at last count, agreed with you at least twice. And yet the conversation is always the same.

It would be no surprise that any social event sponsored by a fraternity (or was a sorority) would be themed in an insulting manner, certainly such an organization at an ivy league school. Of course, Ms. Hernandez is also a student at that school and apparently has the wherewithal to manage the forty three thousand dollar annual tuition. I doubt she'll be picking strawberries for minimum wage any time soon.

So why is it that even the mention that someone could theoretically overstate their feelings of discomfort to manipulate others results in denial of even that possibility. It's simply off the table. And whoever is considered the cause of that discomfort is immediately assumed to be doing so for the most cruel and insensitive of reasons. No other interpretation is permitted.

Be that as it may, these things sort themselves out sooner or later although never soon enough. Like you said, nobody wears blackface any more. As far as I'm concerned what a bunch of 1% larvae wear to a party will have little impact on the culture at large. Well, little impact beyond the press they get for being so sensitive and culturally aware.

I'm more interested in the people that profit from those cultural conflicts. Like I said in the post that started this subthread, entire industries are devoted to profit from human tribalism, a trait which is as old as the species itself. And you can bet the 1% is right there with two feet in the trough.