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Your username checks out, so take my upvote. That said, the debate has moved past centering on First Amendment Rights as the point of contention; rather, the is
by ericjang 11y ago
Your username checks out, so take my upvote. That said, the debate has moved past centering on First Amendment Rights as the point of contention; rather, the issue is whether students should dress in "offensive" Halloween Costumes even if they are legally allowed to.
- fweespeech 11y agoHypothetical: If the situation was the reverse of now and the majority was openly racist and found anti-racism costumes offensive [say, Martin Luther King Jr costumes] ... would you still favor banning "offensive" costumes? I guess I just feel we don't have the luxury of determining what speech should be allowed because sometimes the majority is in the wrong.
- aidenn0 11y agoActually, since I'm white, I think it would be considered racist were I to dress as MLK Jr. ...
- fweespeech 11y agoDo you genuinely not understand I'm talking about a member of a minority doing that?
- aidenn0 11y agoI actually did upon first reading, but it was very late.
- fweespeech 11y agoAh okay, sorry. Now I think its clear that I wasn't talking about white people doing it, yeah?
- mc32 11y agoI would say yes, so long as the costume wearer does not engage in threatening behavior toward other revelers. It's offensive and in poor taste, but I think people have the right to wear stupid things, even offensive things. They can wear nun's dresses or vicar's clothes with very inappropriate insinuations, etc. (given the "misconduct" of priests, etc.) Or banning Nazi, Ghadaffi, Kone, BinLaden, etc. costumes, they are in poor taste, but I don't see the merit in banning them outright. Or doing untoward things to the effigies of unpopular politicians. It's my opinion, and I imagine others would be offended, and I might be offended by some costumes, maybe even feel uneasy about them, but I still would say people have the right to express themselves, so long as they don't engage in threatening behavior. Some (political) expression will feel very uncomfortable, but that's necessary to have in a free-ish society.