I am, too. But here we have a student who is strongly identified with the Republican Party and conservatives who is either so racist or clueless that he does not realize that blackface is offensive to more than just the lunatic left. Do you think that blackface is an appropriate Halloween costume for a white student in the 21st Century?
Offended conservatives are laughed at and ridiculed, as in the case of the death threat made by the black student in which the Penn State "...police decided that Black Caucus members were voicing opinions but were not disorderly."
So rather than take the moral high ground, they should prove that they are bigger bigots than the Black Caucus?
This is a disgrace. If a white student had threatened the life of a black student at Penn State, Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackon would be all over TV demanding a federal investigation and protection for the black students.
So we should emulate Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson by running to the defense of white students, no matter what they do, and excuse their behavior, no matter what it is? You are telling me that we should adopt the very behavior that makes these people unworthy of respect?
And to you people out there opining on how the College Republicans should have acted, what they did was on their own personal website, and their party took place off campus.
It's none of the University's business!
No, but it is my business, because it is conservatives and Republicans that they are hurting. They are confirming many blacks' worst fears that the Republican Party is filled with closet racists.
Please spare me the freedom lecture. Yes, what these students did was not illegal and they should not be expelled but they have no business acting as spokesmen for conservatives and the Republican Party if they don't grasp that the KKK and blackface are not any more funny that a crucifix in urine or a gay activist in a Dick Cheney mask pretending to sodomize another activist in a George W. Bush mask. Legitimate free speech? Yes. Behavior I'd want to be associated with? No thanks.
The left may give Jesse Jackson a pass for talking about "Hymie Town" but I don't want to stoop to their level. They are no class opportunists for whom I have contempt and I have no desire to emulate their situational ethics. When people on Free Republic start citing Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson as role-models whose behavior conservatives should emulate, something is very wrong. I understand your anger over the double standard but the answer is to continue to demand that they raise their standards, not that we lower ours. I don't want to stand arm and arm with people who have the ethics of Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson. Conservatives are better than that, or should be.
I am not going to allow myself to become offended because someone else may have been offended by actions that someone else became offended by, whether it be perceived racist, insulting homosexuals, Femi-Nazis, or even Conservatives.
Since I've never owned a slave, harrassed a homosexual or a Femi-Nazi, I feel free of guilt. However, I do admit to offending liberals in general with my words.
I feel pretty comfortable about that.