Sorority suspended for "Indian Party."

[macallan25]

Originally Posted by breathesgelatin

I think the argument would be you can't have a Cowboy and Indian party period, actually. Or at least you shouldn't do so if you don't want to get called out on it.

I wasn't really comparing the two parties/incidents, and don't want to. I was just pointing out that people who do offensive stuff are always going to use the excuse that "it was all in good fun," even if it's clear that that's untrue.

Why should I get called out for having a Cowboy and Indian party? That's absolutely ridiculous.

........dressing up like a Nazi probably wasn't in all good fun. Dressing like some Cowboys and Indians that you would see in any cheesy western is completely harmless.

[breathesgelatin]

Originally Posted by macallan25

Dressing like some Cowboys and Indians that you would see in any cheesy western is completely harmless.

Well, as this incident makes clear, a lot of people don't find it harmless.

[texas*princess]

Kevin, I don't understand how the GPhiB incident is related to a cheesy western movie that you keep trying to relate this to.

Every article I can find on that doesn't ever mention anything about Cowboys.

The girls showed up in Indian "maiden" dresses, and guys showed up in makeshift loinclothes and red 'war' paint.

Oh! And the Gamma Phi house is right next door to The American Indian Student Services House.

But hey, they shouldn't have been put on TEMPORARY social probabation because "it was all in good fun".

[macallan25]

Originally Posted by breathesgelatin

Well, as this incident makes clear, a lot of people don't find it harmless.

No. They don't.....and that really shouldn't matter. Maybe the people that really want to cry and whine over a bunch of college students having a party should start filing law suits and taking on some of the bazillion places that manufactures and sells Indian and Western costumes.

The ridiculous amount of PCness that is expected of everyone in this country is ludicrous.