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Originally Posted by SWTXBelle
Do you honestly believe that they thought "I know this is offensive, but I don't care?". No one, of course, can know for sure, but if they knew it was offensive and chose to do it anyway I don't think they would have happily posed for pictures, and then posted them on facebook. Insensitive means they didn't consider others feelings - it doesn't have to mean that they considered them, and then said it didn't matter.
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I honestly don't care what they thought.
I deal with outcomes. Some outcomes come from more deliberate and intentional actions than others. But that is be based on more than "we didn't know."
The speculation and semantics ("insensitive" versus "clueless") game is a waste of time. After all of these incidents that have been in the media, no college student with a head as distinct from their ass should claim they aren't aware of the potential for offense.
Regarding taking photos: An analogy are the photos of black face that dumb college students took--imagine them happily posing for photos in
deliberate black faced costumes and pretending that they don't know that black face is offensive.
Perhaps more overt than in the article for this thread, but the "didn't know" defense is all the same. Even if these idiots claimed they "didn't know," the outfits were very crafted and intentionally black face. But if they "didn't know," that says a lot about this society.
And if they truly didn't know, NOW THEY DO and will be handled accordingly.
