Brickbat: Black Out

Earlier this year, Arizona State University had its annual blackout football game, in which students are encouraged to dress in black to support the team. Some students showed up with their faces painted black as well. The ASU Black and African Coalition (BAC) said that smacked of racism and cultural insensitivity, and the administration recently sent out a letter asking students not to paint their faces at all, with any color, in the future. So far, that's just a request, but the BAC says it plans to introduce a bill in the student government that would ban face paint and mandate any student caught using it be required to attend sensitivity training.

Comments

[db]

If the students have any guts at all they will begin painting their faces.in the colors of the opposing team at games.

[Florida Man]

Or blackface to every class.

[Free Society]

"Mammy!"

[Mickey Rat]

How many mattresses did the school administration feel that black-faced pea through?

A certain amount of insensitivity is necessary to go through life otherwise you are jumping at every minor touch.

[Rufus J. Firefly]

Fall of the West.

[Scruffy Nerfherder]

Completely self-inflicted

[Bean Counter]

Such things usually are.

[Rev-Match]

Showing support for sports teams is racist.

ban face paint and mandate any student caught using it be required to attend sensitivity training.

Well, fuck me. I await FIRE's response to this.

[Rufus J. Firefly]

If I was a sensitivity trainer with any sense of decency and dignity, I'd tell these people to fuck off and to save their stupidity for people who really need sensitivity training - which already to me is a stupid thing to begin with.

Kids who paint their faces black to support a friggen sports team shouldn't be taking up a seat in the class.

But that's me.

[Ted S.]

Sensitivity trainers don't have any decency or dignity. And they want more stuff to be seen as "insensitive" so that they can have increased business.

But you knew all this already. On to making fun of the Frenchies.

[ColonelEngineer]

I wonder if they remembered to use a white base coat

[GotOutOfCali]

Can we get a cartoon with labels explaining the situation?

[Swiss Servator, spare a franc?]

Hey, that is on Friday.

[Bee Tagger]

"Gotta support the team" is also a pretty clear mandate.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Yeah that's right.

[Cdr Lytton]

the administration recently sent out a letter asking students not to paint their faces at all

Sexist!

[Rich]

I think the immediate consequences should be not allowing them into the event and then make them attend these events like caucuses or classroom workshops

IOW, Jim Crow and slavery.

[The Late P Brooks]

They should just call it a public safety issue, and arrest anybody with a painted face as a terrorist trying to defeat their facial recognition apparatus. Also, pointing your painted face at a campus cop will make him fear for his safety, and we all know what happens next.

[The Late P Brooks]

"Mistah Bones, I'se got me a nice ham hock here what sez they's gonna tho a pass this down. Is you in, or is you a chikkin?"

[Slammer]

I think John's brought this up before, but every one of these incidents feels like one more card on the house and eventually it might crash down on the builders. And then anything goes with any kind of act (which I fully support relative to the NAP). The progs will go to any extreme to "paint" anything as racist and it'll collapse and instead of everything being racist it might backfire and nothing will be.

Shorter: When everything is racist, nothing is.

[Rich]

"I feel offended!"

"Well, I feel offended that you feel offended!"

[Slammer]

"And I'm offended that...wait, I'm confused"

[some guy]

Let's just agree that we're all offended and we should all be ostracized from each other. Deal?

[some guy]

Shorter: When everything is racist, nothing is.

In theory, yes. But when mendacious asses are in power, if everything is racist then everyone can be punished at a whim.

(This post was not meant to disparage asses in any way.)

[Bean Counter]

Click on the Largo Drive ads. There are asses that are impossible to disparage.

[Certified Public Asskicker]

How many millenials (drink!) are even aware black face is "offensive."

[Rich]

Or this?

[some guy]

Especially millenials in Arizona. They still probably don't know what they did wrong. I picture them standing there confused and afraid like a dog that just got smacked for no reason.

[Lord Humungus]

Mammy,
My little Mammy,
I'd walk a million miles
For one of your smiles...

[Free Society]

Mammy!

[The Late P Brooks]

I'm still pissed off that MGM censors Tex Avery cartoons.

[All-Seeing Monocle]

Is black one of the team's colors? If so, that smacks of racism. They should change the team's colors immediately. And ban the use of black color on campus for anything.

Also, the expression "smacks of racism" is suggestive of domestic violence. People who use that expression should get domestic violence sensitivity training.

[Free Society]

This doesn't bode well for the Harlem Jazz Singers basketball team.

[Bryan C]

Henceforth the only acceptable team color is pink. Which will require a generous licensing agreement with the Komen cartel, of course.

[Invisible Finger]

If the students were smart, they'd all stop attending the games.

But this is ASU, the students are all shit-for-brains.

[Robert]

Juggalos gonna be in trouble again.

Let me see if I follow the reasoning:

1. Lampblack on a face makes it look like Negro "black".

2. Making yourself look like someone of another race is offensive to the other race.

3. Banning only black on faces would be unfair to the other colors, even though other most colors look even less like skin tones than black.

4. Therefore all colors on faces must be eschewed equally.

5. PROFIT!!!