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Originally Posted by DaemonSeid
K Sig...it's one of those things..."If you gotta guess...then don't mess"
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I think this is a fine principle indeed - however, I think it's a problem when it becomes "I can't dress black because I don't know what's good/bad", since the whole goal should be a modicum of understanding and fellowship, if that makes sense.
That's why I'm asking - cutting down on the guessing would be a good thing, and probably help the stupider members of the population from doing something, well, stupid.
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Originally Posted by DaemonSeid
Same as last year at my job...one of the white guys dressed up as Flava Flav sans the make up....some of us thought it was funny...others didn't.
Some people just cross the line and don't know nor think that what they are doing is offensive.
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Why would dressing as Flava Flav be offensive, if it doesn't include a historically offensive issue (i.e. blackface or similar)? Now, you could turn anything offensive by dropping a bunch of slurs or generally acting like an ethnocentric douche, but this is kind of what I'm saying - is it implicitly offensive to some African Americans if white people dress up like black celebrities?
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