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Double standard?
I don't consider this a double standard. I consider it a single standard, as follows:
When there's a several-hundred-year history of Group X abusing, killing, and enslaving Group Y, and throughout much of that history Group X used a tool called "YFace" to ridicule, insult, and belittle members of Group Y, and after centuries of painful struggle Group Y has achieved a measure of equality with Group X....THEN, it is offensive to revive that tool for your own amusement without consideration for its meaning to others.
That's the standard that's being applied here, to everyone, across the board. If you want to call it a double standard, go right ahead, but I don't see where one group is being held to a higher standard than another. Nobody, of any race, should use the emblems of their fellow students' oppression for entertainment.
Yes, the incident with the noose was even MORE offensive...it was probably the most offensive costume imaginable. But the fact that this costume wasn't the MOST offensive possible costume doesn't mean that students and faculty at UT are wrong to be upset.
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