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

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94. Good for them indeed.

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I don't think she should just shut up. I think she could have handled it better, but she's there to learn. She'll figure it out.

Do you know what her major is? I don't. She might indeed turn out to be an attorney or lawmaker that brings justice to people who need it. Or she might be a business major and and become expert in the application of Friedman school economics. She might even be a marketing major. I'm not passing judgement on her since I don't have any more information than her ethnicity and an email. But nor am I assuming she embodies all that is right and good in the human spirit. She is human, therefore she is not perfect.

It took a little longer than I thought, but someone has finally made reference to "homage to Aryans" (#85). Now there's cultural respect out of control. How did that happen? It happened because people were told what they wanted to hear to the aggrandizement of those doing the telling.

I doubt there's much of a market yet for Mexican identity. There won't be much unless it becomes an "ism". While I think Hernandez claim of wrongful cultural appropriation was probably justified given the nature of the people organizing the event, I am not willing to reflexively rush to her defense just because she made the claim. Across the spectrum of intercultural relations her claim is the strongest. For now. That might not be the case in the future.

It seems to me that an over emphasis on culture war issues of gender, race, religion and the rest create too much parasitic drag in light of the serious economic and environmental problems that face us. That's not to say that aggrieved parties on all sides of the issue have no merit nor that they should be ignored, but given the exigent circumstances these conflicts play to the advantage of those who benefit from ignoring the economic and environmental issues that affect us all regardless of race, gender or religion.

As Jay Gould once said, "You can always hire one half of the poor to kill the other half."