Yale ha artpop era

i hope they are not fired. I really hate this generations way of doing things.

All of this

Protesting for what???

It is a costume, once in a year, damn it

And this

And PC is the reason why many comics won't do college anymore

Totally agree with your first paragraph.

Your second, well... Let's just say appropriation is a "white people thing" because the stealing of culture has primarily been the white minority oppressing the colored majority. It's very hard to oppress white people at this point, but minorities have to put up with it daily, so it makes sense that a white girl dressing as Mulan is more offensive than an asian girl dressing up as Belle, ESPECIALLY because Mulan is such a culture-driven character while Belle is not.

There was nothing in the original email from the Yale cultural group being pressed about white kids dressed as Tiana and Mulan. So there's just no point in talking about it. Instead of talking about the actual relevant issues in the original email, like black and red face, this Christakis woman hijacked the discussion with nonsense that no one even brought up or had anything to do with anything. She's arguing points that no one even made but trying to front like she's rebutting something with an erudite response. And most of the dummies on this thread that were either too lazy to click links or read more than one email in a sitting took the bait, starting first with the OP.

The educator sent the emails to students through the lens of someone that has built a career and studied child development. Just because the original e-mail doesn't address pre-school children doesnt mean that she cant have an interesting discussion and discourse on what the implications could be for younger children.

So. What's her expertise got to do with anything? Does her professional background make her analogy any less asinine? Look, a BS analogy is a BS analogy. Younger children are outside of the scope of this discussion because the original argument in the email sent by the Yale Intercultural Affair Committee had nothing to do with young children. It was addressed to Yale students. And anyway, Christakis Mulan/Tiana analogy would have been just stupid if she had used Yale students dressing up as those characters because Mulan and Tiana aren’t even real. Those costumes do not make fun of Asians and blacks or their traits or cultures, nor are those costumes designed to perpetuate any actual historical inaccuracies by either race. Her analogy doesn’t fit under any of the categories considered offensive in the YICA email. Therefore, YICA would have no beef with them. Christakis' analogy is a strawman, plain and simple. Both you and she need to stay on topic .


Oh no, the children (LMFAO)! Except, this ishty letter of her's was billed as a response to the YICA email, which has nothing to do with stifling children's creative play. . . unless you mean to argue that keeping little white kids from wearing black and red face is stifling their development. So this discussion that you say she's starting is neither interesting nor productive because who the hell is even talking about children's development because of this letter? People are using her letter to bitch about so called SJW's. So, if the purpose of Christakis' letter was to get people talking about early childhood development, as you assert, then she failed miserably.

For the 20th time, the YICA letter was about the Yale student community, grown folks, who should, but might not know better. What Christakis is doing is called DE-RAILING. So, instead of talking about what the email ACTUALLY said, Christakis is bringing up a bunch of irrelevant strawmen to shift the focus from the actual topic at hand. And it often works, especially on people who aren't clever enough to see through that tactic. (Goes back to read your reply . . . hmm)

It's people like those students who are killing the civil rights movement. If SJWs aren't careful they're going to piss all the "moderate" people off so much that we'll end up going back in the other direction again.