Offensive Halloween Costume

[JimmyM]

Isn't it weird how quickly I became sorry I posted in this thread? Took all of 2 minutes. Now I'll be getting notifications every 10 seconds. Guess I better turn them off.

 

[Sixgunn]

It is something worth looking into for all white people. It would probably help increase your tolerance and understanding when it comes to culturally sensitive issues such as this.

Dude, I'm tolerant to anyone that isn't a posterior cavern. I don't sit around pondering my "whiteness". I'm a person like we all are I don't focus on such things.

 

[Stranger Danger]

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Just out of curiosity, why do some people think that academic credentials entitle them to speak ex cathedra about what is or isn't to be considered "racist." Just because they're "scholars" doesn't mean they, and they alone, get to frame the debate or define terms. Even if they care to use such lovely coinages as: "signifiers" and "essentializing."

There was a time when people looked to scholars and academics (both real and self-confessed) to bring clarity and reason to an issue. Lately it seems like these "scholars" and their ilk are producing far more heat than light. Academics and scholars make careers out of splitting hairs and introducing chaff into discussions that any normal person, with an ounce of common sense, would dismiss immediately as someone who is merely trolling. So could these people please get real for once? This is TalkBass - not some overly self-conscious "PC" campus environment where you can put on your high hat and claim an absolute higher morality without fear of being challenged. Perhaps that nonsense would be better trotted out for something more suitable, like a tenure review, rather than here?

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I think if more people would follow the advice given the early subscribers to The WeLL (one of the original Internet discussion forums), we'd all be a lot happier and enjoy living in a much more pleasant and enlightened society:

Try not to offend.
Try not to be so easily offended.

 

[Marial]

I went as a giant bong. The costume was a huge hit

I see what you did there.

 

[jlh60]

The costume in question would most definitely be deemed stereotyping

Don't most, if not all Mariachi bands wear some type of costume. If so, they've created the stereotype themselves by wanting to look like a Mariachi band.

 

[wmhill]

I got scolded a while back, citing that I was "threading the line" of the cultural sensitivity rule.... I mentioned poutine & toques, on a Canadian thread.
Alas- the worlds gone mad!

 

[Ratbut]

I see what you did there.

Its a gift, I guess I should feel guilty for being "privileged" with it

 

[GBassNorth]

So you want us to blame the victims? It's their fault they're offended?

How is it possibly celebrating Mexican culture to show you really don't understand it. Mariachi bands do not carry around pinatas. That is reducing the image to a stereotype, which you are doing so for a laugh.

Funny thing is - the last (and only) Mexican party I was at was a huge one. It was thrown in a barn where my daughter took horseback riding lessons. There were easily a hundred people there of all ages. My family and the family that owned the horse ranch were the only non Hispanics in attendance. They had fantastic Mexican food, plenty of beer and coke to drink and live music being performed by a not too frilly Mariachi band. And yes they had a massive piñata that they dropped down for the kids to take a swing at - it was a Great Party!

 

[Deleted member 269102]

Social justice and feminism are two very misguided (and ironically selfish) movements. They should largely be ignored.

Right then. I'll put down my bass and get back to the kitchen.

 

[Marial]

Its a gift, I guess I should feel guilty for being "privileged" with it

I don't feel guilty about white privilege, and neither should you. I had no choice when it comes to being born white and male. I do, however, choose to recognize the fact that it exists.

 

[callofcthulhu]

 

[Personatech]

As long as you don't show up dressed as a border patrol agent with the rest of your band dressed as a mariachi band, you should be fine. The mustaches have to go, however. As an aside, do you guys just happen to have mariachi suits and sombreros hanging around?

 

[Stranger Danger]

Right then. I'll put down my bass and get back to the kitchen.

Amazing how ignorant some people can be. I really believe that there is a significant portion of the population that would prefer we resumed the social norms of 100 years ago.

 

[40Hz]

@StrangerDanger : I'm missing something in your "Asimov quotation" reply I think.

 

[micque]

I'm playing saturday nite dressed like one of the blues brothers, and its cold here so I will show up wearing a toque and possibly be eating a poutine before the show, and I'm playing bass, oh wait, I'm in the wrong thread, sorry guys and gals !

 

[Stranger Danger]

@StrangerDanger : I'm missing something i think.

Because someone is educated in a field that actually does mean that their opinion holds more weight than someone who isn't.

 

[Ratbut]

I don't feel guilty about white privilege, and neither should you. I had no choice when it comes to being born white and male. I do, however, choose to recognize the fact that it exists.

I'm just trying to keep things light with a little sarcasm. We are here to have fun, I hope.

 

[GBassNorth]

We've gotta be getting close to a lockdown on this thread - even I've been offended!

 

[40Hz]

Because someone is educated in a field that actually does mean that their opinion holds more weight than someone who isn't.

Sometimes. Possibly more likely. But not necessarily always.

But again, I'm missing your point I think.

 

[StraffordMike]

I just can't believe some of the ******** I see here!!! Really? If I want all this PC crap I'd turn on MSNBC!!