The creepy cult of modern faux liberalism

They are also used as synonyms for "left" and "right," but on a significantly reduced spectrum. When people refer to "those crazy right left/right wingers," they are talking about people who aren't that far away from each other but a using the two prominent parties as poles between which everything falls.

 

Perhaps you can wear a Tipper Gore costume?

 

And yet the Wayan Brothers can wear whiteface and make an entire movie denigrating "White Chicks", and not receive the same violent disapproval a white actor would get hamming it up in blackface.

Indeed, it is nothing; that's painfully evident.  In the words of S Wonder, "Why must my colour black make me a lesser man"?  That's what the civil rights movement of the 60s - though Wonder was carrying on that fight in the 70s - was about.  And what's this about?  From what I can gather, trying to stop whites from dressing up like characters from races they don't belong to?  If it demonstrates anything, it is that privileged students from other races seem to have appropriated the freedom and dignity that was always rightfully theirs to keep playing the race card relentlessly to both be in the mainstream and yet not only maintain their distinct racial identity but shut off other races from conversation about their race through any means (including Halloween costumes).  I am brown but I don't feel much sympathy for such a position and think students ought to find better things to do than protest Halloween costumes unless they are indeed outright racist (and nothing from the email by Erika Christakis or the article published on Atlantic suggest that was the case).  This isn't even progressivism in any form either, just entitlement.  If some professor at Yale had shown disrespect towards a student of LGBT orientation and other students rallied around said student to demand action against the professor, THAT would be a worthwhile cause.
 

Yelling him the same repeated points whilst misunderstanding his probably does not persuades him or do something other then use him as a stress toy. That intense anger can become a block against others' perspectives, which is ironic because it typically is manifested in the attempt to make one's own heard. I don't deny that there have been protests (and wars) which have seen more drastic measures than this, but among whom and over what? This is an e-mail. Not an abusive one, I may add. Just one that stated that the faculty member didn't know where to draw the line with Halloween costume restrictions, so there weren't going to be any.