Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader Facing Costume Controversy

[AKA_Monet]

Originally Posted by TexasWSP

Personally, I think calling someone you don't know a "dumbshit" "asshat" with "low self-esteem" that "doesn't matter", is far worse than dressing yourself up like a famous rapper on Halloween. She is a stripper now too...apparently because she is a cheerleader.

Are you seriously comparing a 20 something year old girl's costume to the Klan putting on blackface in 1923 before burning a cemetery? That makes just shitloads of sense. Figured I'd ask since you so casually dismissed the other poster's thoughts/comparison. Bringing up Birth of a Nation isn't relevant either.

There isn't a shred of evidence to suggest any malicious intent with her costume.

Coming from you: Shitloads! Way to go with the condemnation. I like that... LOL! And yeah, I'm comparing the 2, and IMO, the comparison with the movie Birth of a Nation is relevant ONLY IN REFERENCE to the poster's cause to dismiss the ignorance and insensitivity--but that's my opinion.

How can you tell any kind of intent based on a news story and a picture, then? Sanctimoniously?

[TexasWSP]

Originally Posted by AKA_Monet

Coming from you: Shitloads! Way to go with the condemnation. I like that... LOL! And yeah, I'm comparing the 2, and IMO, the comparison with the movie Birth of a Nation is relevant ONLY IN REFERENCE to the poster's cause to dismiss the ignorance and insensitivity--but that's my opinion.

How can you tell any kind of intent based on a news story and a picture, then? Sanctimoniously?

I can't.

I see nothing to make me think she wasn't simply dressing up for a costume party though, so I will refrain from immediately condemning and hate bashing her.

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say it doesn't work that way with you.

[AKA_Monet]

Originally Posted by TexasWSP

I can't.

I see nothing to make me think she wasn't simply dressing up for a costume party though, so I will refrain from immediately condemning and hate bashing her.

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say it doesn't work that way with you.

Hmmm? Still working on that pedestal for dummies...

She may have been merely dressing up for a costume party. I am saying her costume was stupid and she is irrelevant.

How interesting is it that I'm immediately condemning and hate bashing a dingbat when she made the choice to put on brown make up so that she really looked like the rapper, Lil Wayne... So are all rappers Black, again--today?

[sarcasm] Wow, I guess I must be terrorist when I say my brown make up NEVER comes off, even when I sit in a vat of bleach... I guess I love living Blackface! Whoo hoo! [/end sarcasm]

Wingnuts would say some bullshit like that tho', why expect any more from them?

[AlphaFrog]

Originally Posted by AKA_Monet

Hmmm? Still working on that pedestal for dummies...

Insults really don't add anything to a discussion, and make the person using them look worse that whoever they are insulting to begin with.

Originally Posted by AKA_Monet

She may have been merely dressing up for a costume party. I am saying her costume was stupid and she is irrelevant.

She's obviously not irrelevant to you if you are taking the time to discuss her. Her costume was probably stupid.

Originally Posted by AKA_Monet

How interesting is it that I'm immediately condemning and hate bashing a dingbat when she made the choice to put on brown make up so that she really looked like the rapper, Lil Wayne... So are all rappers Black, again--today?

How does this girl dressing up as Lil Wayne - who is black - equate to all rappers are black? She was not dressing up as a generic rapper and felt the need to paint herself black. That would have implied that she thinks all rappers are black.

Originally Posted by AKA_Monet

[sarcasm] Wow, I guess I must be terrorist when I say my brown make up NEVER comes off, even when I sit in a vat of bleach... I guess I love living Blackface! Whoo hoo! [/end sarcasm]

This who paragraph makes absolutely no sense. Terrorism? Where did that come from?

Originally Posted by AKA_Monet

Wingnuts would say some bullshit like that tho', why expect any more from them?

Refer back to first comment here.

[AKA_Monet]

Originally Posted by AlphaFrog

Insults really don't add anything to a discussion, and make the person using them look worse that whoever they are insulting to begin with.



She's obviously not irrelevant to you if you are taking the time to discuss her. Her costume was probably stupid.



How does this girl dressing up as Lil Wayne - who is black - equate to all rappers are black? She was not dressing up as a generic rapper and felt the need to paint herself black. That would have implied that she thinks all rappers are black.




This who paragraph makes absolutely no sense. Terrorism? Where did that come from?



Refer back to first comment here.

You feel better now?

[LatinaAlumna]

Originally Posted by AlphaFrog

Insults really don't add anything to a discussion, and make the person using them look worse that whoever they are insulting to begin with.

Actually, I think *your* post makes *you* look worse than both parties involved in this exchange.

[KSig RC]

Originally Posted by LatinaAlumna

Actually, I think *your* post makes *you* look worse than both parties involved in this exchange.

GreekChat: pithy one-liners in lieu of intellectual discourse, since 2002.

[dreamseeker]

Originally Posted by KSig RC

*cackle*

[christiangirl]

Originally Posted by DrPhil

Those people are neither minstrel show-ish (neither are they coonish). They are expressing themselves, which is what people of all races have the right to do--good or bad--agree or disagree.

Um, yeah not the way I see it, but okay.

Originally Posted by AlphaFrog

Yes - she stated that her intent was to portray Hoppa. Unless Hoppa-face (most of them were more olive than black) has historical significance, than it's not the same. My children would be classified as Hoppa if we lived in Hawaii` (half Caucasian, half Hispanic), and I thought it was cool.

ETA: Yeah, Tyra was excited about the photos that had more of a National Geographic feel, I think she commented that those were more in line with what she was going for. So there's definitely a difference between mocking something and capturing the beauty of it and so I don't see how anyone could mix the two when the intention is so obviously stated.

[DrPhil]

Originally Posted by christiangirl

Um, yeah not the way I see it, but okay.

Well...duh.