<p>To mean “South of the Border” means a place in South Carolina where we used to buy fireworks on the way north from Florida every year. </p>
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<h1>20 -right on–also nothing better to get the 'rents riled up.</h1>
<p>P-O-L-I-T-I-C-A-L C-O-R-R-E-C-T-N-E-S-S is what they are rebelling against. Sorry I had to spell it out for you, but apparently some of you can’t read:
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<p>spelling it out still requires our literacy, we just have to perform a load of hyphen removals</p>
<p>That would be believable if there were anything new about this kind of party or about using racial stereotypes to mock people. But these things go way, way back.</p>
<p>You can’t tell me that these kids just woke up one morning and decided that being white made them so superior to people of other ethnicities they were entitled to ridicule them–and that they never would have thought of it without the civil rights movement and other calls for social justice and equity in society.</p>
<p>The Age of Aquarius has come…and gone.</p>
<h2>“You laugh, but the parties are going to get more frequent and more offensive.”</h2>
<p>You know joev, I don’t really care. And no one is scared either. In fact, your whole white power ‘silent America’ thing is just laughable. The only thing these drunken fools have done is create a permanent record of what morons they are. I can only pray they pay the price for stupidity again and again; everytime they apply for a job or an internship, or need a recommendation, everytime they are the cusp of an A and get that B instead, etc… </p>
<p>Pay up mi amigos.</p>
<p>When did I ever say white power or threaten anyone? At the risk of having more words put into my mouth, I will just say that people on this message board are getting way too offended, and anything that remotely even hints of sticking up for whites is called racist. Go ahead and say it, I am responsible for the Holocaust and slavery, and I am the reason why women are paid less than men. Well I know you really want to, so I admit to starting or being responsible for all these things. On with Mardi Gras!</p>
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<p>And might I add that in another thread, you murmured darkly about a “Final Solution” for Saudi Arabia.</p>
<p>Joe–youre the one who equates being anti-PC with being pro-bigoted.</p>
<p>How do you spell…j-a-c-k-a-s-s, which is what those kids seem to want to prove themselves to be.</p>
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<p>“The message is clear, quit the PC BS or we will rebel by any means necessary”</p>
<p>“…by any means necessary” was a threat when it came out of Malcom X’s mouth and it’s a threat coming out of yours. When he said it he was espousing Black Power. So being a white guy who is aping his words and threats puts you by implication in a position of espousing White Power.</p>
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No, Joev, racist behavior is being called racist. There’s a difference.</p>
<p>Maybe some of my words are coming across as a tad extreme to some people. I will continue to defend people of whatever race who want to throw a party of whatever type they want to. That is freedom of speech, and you cannot selectively pick which views you want to assign FOS to. (why am I ending all my sentences in prepositions?) Never did I advocate violence, but anti-PC parties are just a way of getting a point across. Continue to call me a racist if you want, but we will go through this every time until people quit posting about them.</p>
<p>I agree with joev, the freedom of speech was made to protect the people who no one agrees with. If your idea or what you are saying is popular, then its not neccessary to protect your speech because everyone agrees with you but when you say something that is very unpopular and everyone is against you, your speech is protected by the first amendment. Why do you think porn and flag burning as well as other things are still around even though they are unpopular and not politically correct, because they are protected by the constitution. Everyone has a right to say what they want, as long as what they say is within legal limits (for example yelling fire in a movie theater isn’t protected by the constitution). It isn’t racism, its standing up for someone’s rights.</p>
<p>I don’t think anyone is suggesting that these kids should be prosecuted. That doesn’t mean that what they are doing is right. The Klan is permitted to hold marches, but we can still condemn them as despicable racists. No one’s right to speak or assemble is being infringed. On the other hand, I am under no obligation to respect their decision to use their freedoms in such an insensitive and irresponsible way.</p>
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<p>Is that really all it is? You should know that to the rest of the world, it <em>looks</em> like hateful Latino-bashing. And mindless partying. But if you say it’s thoughtful support for free speech, well, that’s different. [sarcasm]</p>
<p>Sorry, I don’t buy it.</p>
<p>I think we should all stand up and fight for free slurred speech,…</p>
<p>Please don’t be offended by this comment but I am a little concerned that sometimes offense is taken where it’s not intended. For example, I remember a "hair band " party where everybody wore spandex and big hair wigs to look like White Snake or other now ridiculous looking hair bands. This was not meant to be offensive to white people in general ( unless you were still rockin that style LOL ) . I think that the “gangsta” parties SOME of the students have today are somewhat mocking that genre, NOT black people. Vanilla Ice and Eminem are fair game as well. When they wear a big clock around their neck like Flava Flav or dress like Easy - E , are they putting down their fellow students who are minorities? I don’t think so… now when you talk about parties where there is blackface or mock lynchings that is just sick. Isn’t there a difference? I just don’t like to see all students who go to costume parties painted as racist, when they aren’t.</p>
<p>PA mom–I thought of this as well as I was reading this thread. There is a difference, and I hope well-meaning people can see it.</p>
<p>Joe and Pyar–No one here is suggesting censorship, so raising that is just a strawman.</p>
<p>As has been frequently said, the answer to hate speech is more speech. That’s what we have here. Criticism is also free speech.</p>