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    josie nemoDodai Stewart
    10/21/13 4:33pm

    Yeah, Australia is racist-as-fuck (Sorry Aussies, not all of you are like this, but come on, you still have televised blackface)

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      IinventedPostItsjosie nemo
      10/21/13 4:40pm

      Yeah I lived there a couple years ago in Sydney, and there was some racist shit on the NEWS. Does not surprise me.

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      josie nemoIinventedPostIts
      10/21/13 4:44pm

      Ah, yeah... that doesn't surprise me at all. When I hear Aussies talking about non-white Asians, it sounds like white in the US talking about people from Latin America

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    hungryforitDodai Stewart
    10/21/13 5:10pm

    can't defend the blackface, but what would be the difference between Greek Mythology party complete with togas and an traditional Africa themed party? For a Greek myth party, you aren't reducing Greek culture to some stereotypes. You wouldn't say oh wait, Greece has modern cities so we need to reflect that at the party. It kinda irks me that non-white can dress up as Scottish Braveheart warriors or in Greek togas and it's perfectly PC, but white guy can't dress up as a Masai warrior without getting someone upset.

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      Dodai Stewarthungryforit
      10/21/13 5:23pm

      You're incredibly ignorant.

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      stacyinbeanhungryforit
      10/21/13 5:31pm
      GIF
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    yvanehtniojDodai Stewart
    10/21/13 4:35pm

    Are these her parents? This is so bizarre, it's not like a frat party where the patients are basically running the asylum; there are bona fide adults at this thing, and everyone seems to have bought in to the "theme" with nary a side eye. What the fuck?

    Also, if you get an invitation to an "Africa" themed birthday party and think, finally, an excuse to dress up like a Klansmember!, kindly take a long walk off a short pier.

    ETA (and this is the second time I've gotten to use this lately, so stop it world):

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      TolkienNegroyvanehtnioj
      10/21/13 5:22pm

      I loved this. HCJr. was on live variety show in Australia and this group comes out dancing in blackface and he just stops the whole show and tears into everrrybody about how offended he was and the significance of blackface in America. Lifetime Hood Pass: Approved.

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      yvanehtniojTolkienNegro
      10/21/13 5:24pm

      Yeah, I'd never really thought about him one way or the other, but he earned a perma-thumbs up from me for that. It would've been so simple for him to avoid being the "bad guy," but he went after them.

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    ItsARampageLanaDodai Stewart
    10/21/13 4:34pm

    I have always wanted to go to Africa (to teach English)

    Maybe hold off on that.

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      lawloverItsARampageLana
      10/21/13 4:36pm

      Maybe become more fluent in the English language, and also discover that Africa is not a country. Then we can talk.

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      SneakysItsARampageLana
      10/21/13 4:37pm

      Man, will her mind be blown when she finds out that many countries in Africa actually list English as one of their official languages.

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    veganvampyreyeahDodai Stewart
    10/21/13 6:51pm

    I honestly don't understand why Americans are trying to impose their rules about what racism is or how it's manifested on the rest of the world. Your value system is not the entire world's value system. This whole "I am OUTRAGED from across the globe because you have offended my culture" is ridiculous. This was a girl's birthday party. She had tasteless costumes. Try to not get your panties in a bunch. Gawd...

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      Slut Panicveganvampyreyeah
      10/21/13 7:00pm

      Please go fuck yourself.

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      veganvampyreyeahSlut Panic
      10/21/13 7:08pm

      Wow. That is so civil and grown up. Not to mention extremely intellectual. You do the same :)

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    Jan74Dodai Stewart
    10/21/13 5:08pm

    I'm not even opposed to something being Africa-themed but... blackface? KKK? People dressed up as animals?

    How about people go dressed as themselves, or in African clothes if they so feel inclined without blackface? And then eat some delicious African foods? Foufou for all!*

    *Yes, I'm mostly familiar with East African countries and know nothing about West Africa. But foufou is delicious.

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      MadamsophiaJan74
      10/21/13 5:43pm

      Fufu is actually West African dish.

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      dforce2Jan74
      10/21/13 5:48pm

      Naw, dude, the animals are probably the least offensive part of the entire thing. I totally don't have any problems with the idea of going to an Africa party as an elephant, which, you know, totally non-offensively lives in Africa...the rest, however... *facepalm*

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    JaneEyre27Dodai Stewart
    10/21/13 5:06pm

    I think "Africa" (the continent, not the country) is a great theme for a party. Animal costumes? Bring 'em on! Wearing cool and beautiful African fashion? Yes! Black face and Klan get-ups? I'm kicking you out of my party for being an asshole.

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      Young East African girlJaneEyre27
      10/22/13 7:28am

      I'm kicking you out of any "Africa-themed" (whatever in the name of Yahweh that means) party if you wear animal costumes.

      Why do non-Africans think to primarily represent that continent via animals and acacia trees. Is the variety and ambidexterity of cultures, not to mention human beings, so unavailing?

      Do we bore non-Africans so much that we are always superseded by the animals and baobabs and acacia trees? We can't even represent our own continent? The baobabs must do it for us?

      This is nonsense.

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      CraigJaneEyre27
      10/22/13 4:22pm

      I have to agree that it is perfectly fine for a person who is excited about their upcoming 2-month to Africa to hold an Africa-themed party. But what this person did is certainly not fine. Black-face and Klan costumes isn't an Africa-themed party, it is a racism-themed party. I hope that this idiot learns a little cultural respect while there, but I suspect she won't.

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    TolkienNegroDodai Stewart
    10/21/13 5:10pm

    Which "famous person from Africa" would this be? Also, I hope your entire guest list dies in a fire. In Africa.

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      ronwildTolkienNegro
      10/21/13 8:11pm

      We don't kill people for their beliefs where I come from. It was a private party, not a political convention, she isn't trying to make a race statement.

      The KKK person has a lot of explaining to do for an African themed party, but the rest are just having fun. A parody and exaggeration of real life.

      I will choose my own limits as to what is right and wrong. I do not need a nanny state to tell me what is wrong. America has a massive chip on its shoulder about racism and blackface make-up. Possibly a mixture of guilt and appeasement for past, and current, atrocities against black in the US. Such as the one in fifteen African American males in US prisons compared to one in a hundred and six white men and one in thirty six Hispanics. That is racism. Thirty per cent of the national population, yet sixty per cent of the prison population. That is racism. According to the Bureau of Justice statistics one in three black men can expect to go to jail. That is racism. And it is perpetrated by people who would never think of blacking up for a party, which is not racism. Racism is a state of mind, not an innocent action that offends another.

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      10/21/13 8:14pm
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    Sempre plou sobre mullatDodai Stewart
    10/21/13 4:43pm

    Maybe this is why Mother Nature allowed so many poisonous/aggressive/otherwise deadly species to evolve on Australia. Ya know, to keep unintelligent people from breeding?

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      Lorem IpsumSempre plou sobre mullat
      10/21/13 5:01pm

      Pity none of them have made it over the bridge to the Shire (where I live). I get stared at on a regular basis because I have a red French bob instead of long blonde hair, freckles instead of a tan, and don't wear shorts that have my whole ass hanging out - which 90% of the girls my age and older do :/

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      Lorem IpsumSempre plou sobre mullat
      10/21/13 5:01pm

      Pity none of them have made it over the bridge to the Shire (where I live). It's pretty much cashed-up bogan central, and we have TWO bookstores for like 8 suburbs :(

      I get stared at on a regular basis because I have a red French bob instead of long blonde hair, freckles instead of a tan, and don't wear shorts that have my whole ass hanging out - which 90% of the girls my age and older do :/

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    ZeCatDodai Stewart
    10/21/13 4:51pm

    Um. So if you dress up as a member of the KKK for funsies and you enjoy doing that, hate to break it to you but that ain't a costume. Congrats, you are a member of the Klan as far as I'm concerned.

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      doctorofrhetoricZeCat
      10/21/13 5:27pm

      Also, quick query. Let's take her rambling defense at face-value. Where does her Klan-guest fit in there? Does he represent village where she's going to go teach English?

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      ZeCatdoctorofrhetoric
      10/21/13 5:31pm

      Uh wayelllll, considering her party was themed "Africa" and at that prompting this guy's strongest correlation was "Ku Klux Klan" I'm gonna venture out on a limb here and assume he is in fact a member of the KKK, or at least an unabashed and particularly virulent racist.

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