Mizzou police officer fired

Is there a link or anything?

The world is upside down with PC drone thinking at the moment.

Meh. I got no problem firing someone for being an idiot. The fact that he doesn't understand the racial overtones associated with blackface makes me feel all the safer now that he got fired.

He's young. He'll get a job at Pizza Hut.

ETA - Also wouldn't have given a shite if he wasn't fired.

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Meh. I got no problem firing someone for being an idiot. The fact that he doesn't understand the racial overtones associated with blackface

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There are none. It is a completely fabricated outrage based on nothing.

I agree with faux outrages. Anyone asserting that society is crumbling because someone dressed in blackface is equally an idiot.

I'd also suggest that simply expressing an opinion that someone is a racist falls far short from outrage. To me, it's no different that me saying someone has a high IQ. Just because I say someone is intelligent doesn't mean I'm outraged at them. I'm just stating my observation of that person. When someone acts as a racist, it is possible to state such not out of outrage but simply as an observation. As far as I care, continue being a racist. It doesn't bother me. (generic you. not you you)

Don’t give a frick about this

There’s things you do and things you don’t do.

I was raised in Rolla, Missouri and my mom would have been horrified if I showed up to any event in blackface at any point in my life. And I’m not young. She would have been equally horrified by racial jokes because she knew people would assume that we weren’t raised correctly if we talked like that or acted like that.

Manners aren’t political correctness. And acting like a human doesn’t mean society is falling apart. I would have no problem for firing a guy who has such little grasp of the niceties of human behavior that he felt that was ok. I have a hard time believing anyone doesn’t understand what is in and out of bounds for normal polite society.

Yeah. I agree with all that.

It’s virtually impossible to discuss anything surrounding culture, politics, race or religion with more than three people present these days.

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Blackface is intended to denigrate an entire race of people. A good Flavor Flav costume is a good Flavor Flav costume. Not the same at all.

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Sorry. He’s a fricking idiot. You see people going white face? Black face has a very negative, racially charged history. Nothing stopping you from dressing up like MJ, etc. Just don’t go the ducking black face route. That’s just dumb as frick.