Cambridge students cancel theme party over 'cultural appropriation' fears

So what is your job? To mock?

Classically confused juvenile pseudo-intellectual faux-liberal antics. What a bunch of #MuesliMunchenBetaMenchen

Some people are genuine pussies who need to grow a backbone and learn to love/laugh at themselves

Sometimes to be nasty, but mostly for the lulz. The kind of uni event in question is just a bit of harmless fun. SJWs need to chill the **** out, address their mental health issues, and not be so salty all the time

Knit cute little tea cosies


There is no law against being mocked/offended. People need to lighten up and learn to take a joke. We Brits have been the subject of lampooning for centuries – do we cry about it like little bitches? No. We have that stip upper lip after all

Might wanna brush up on your history of physiology, Democracy, and modern medicine before Med School hun

I’ll save you the journey: what they’re like is stale as **** Source: Have worked for a metropolitan uni student's union and visited others

There's always something to laugh about, hence the fancy dress themed event in the first place, use your imagination, don't run the risk of becoming just another brainwashed, humourless drone!

Don't recall you protesting owt like this in the past..


Hehe. We have much still to learn, my young padawan. Always remember my words: "integrity, charity, and humility are chief among virtues"

Ok, well perhaps I will take you at the appropriate juncture. Perhaps we could shoot some interviews together

I'm glad the party got cancelled,I find it pretty humourless to be mocking other people's culture.

Well there was reggae night, although they banned blacking up, so many opted for the use of heavy fake tan and fake dread locks.
The 1st rugby team dressed as terrorists, all Islamic of course.
Bavarian Beer Night with oompah band and steins.

You would have loved it.
And best of all, I was the Equality and Diversity Officer for the SU.

I'm glad my uni has safe spaces for vunerable students who have been affected by cultural appropriation

This thread is hilarious. Everyone desperate to be edgier than everyone else and demonstrate that they are less PC. First everyone is trying to out-PC everyone else and now this. These things come full-circle if you give them enough time.

When did you become such a lacklustre kill-joy? Have you never been to fancy dress parties? Why should cultures get special treatment/somehow be off limits?

Do you think a white girl like Kim wearing bell dancing gear is distasteful?



It's a date. I have all the gear, ready to go - all I need now is a suitably glamorous interviewer

Haha. True, true

http://www.gspellchecker.com/2016/02/whats-being-said-about-atheists-in-arabic/

Some Arabs (I reiterate not all) don't think kindly of certain people.

I am not willing to judge all Arabs based on their tweets, but it does not give a good indication.

Anyway, you may not find it humourless but others (including other Arabs) may do. For example, the King of Jordan invited Russel Peters to his palace, despite him being a comedian that mocked Arab culture. What right or entitlement do you have to block this because you find it "humourless" (or offensive). You seem to look at one (bad) side of comedy, comedy and satire has been used to point out flaws in certain things in a way most people would otherwise find it uncomfortable to talk about. So, the effect of comedy and satire has on our development (of all cultures) should not be understated imo. If we don't allow ourselves to be mocked, laugh at ourselves or even look at ourselves critically, how can we expect to improve.

I do agree with you that there is just mindless bigotry, but the vast majority (almost all) of "cultural appropriation" is not that.

Harper Adams. I'm guessing you have never heard of it.

What's has religion got to do with cultural appropriation?

Anyone can follow a religion,no matter what skin colour you are so I don't get the point you're trying to make about Arabs not being accepting.

Arabs are not this one huge group of people who are 100% the same.

We differ even within our own countries. Some of us are Christians and Jews,or have you never heard of such a thing.

We differ also in the way we speak our language,the food we eat,even within the culture itself,things are different in every middle eastern country.

Hah good for the prince of Jordan,hopefully he had a good word with the chap and made him see sense

That's the thing. The majority of the time,outsiders who are culturally appropriating another person's culture are uneducated about that particular culture and its history.

Arabs are not this one huge group of people who are 100% the same. We differ even within our own countries. Some of us are Christians and Jews

So a religion, particularly one that is supposed to dominate your life, worldview and behaviour, has nothing to do with culture? specially since culture is defined as such (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/culture)



I have never said Arabs are not accepting... some Arabs are not excepting, even of other Arabs. I'm sure you'll agree that's the same for some white people (not even accepting of other white people). This is "everything is sexist, everything is racist" victim complex that generalises non-Arabs a lot. Arabs aren't really a "skin colour", if they were, some of them would be extremely white that they'd KKK to shame.



I don't think anybody rational said that


I know there are Christians are Jews in Arab. Some Arabs are technically Semites too... the point I'm trying to make is if you judge "the whole society must be racist regardless of what they do because some people are" then I can make the same for Arabs (all hate atheists)...


So you admit "mocking" one part of "Arab culture" is not denigrating all Arabs? Because as you say even Arabs differ in their culture. I think it is self-centred that your particular brand of "Arab culture" represents all Arabs. If it doesn't do that, I don't see why you're offended if someone "mocks" a certain part of Arab culture if it clearly does not represent all Arabs.



Erm no, the King of Jordan has a good sense of humour and he doesn't get offended easily. He even mocked his own "Jordanian Arab" culture in an interview on national TV. He's a very nice guy.

Ironically one of the aspects that Russel Peters mocked is the "easily offended" nature of Arab culture



What a racist comment! non-Arabs are uneducated so they must be bigots. Do you not know some Arabs mock "western culture" with being as uneducated about it as the evil white people?

Ignore all my ranting, my main what is the difference between comedy & satire and "mocking" as you put it?

No, Arabs are Arabs and Jews are Jews.

No. We are both Semites.

There are Arab Jews. Who identify as Arabs

Depends how religious you are I guess.

Where have I said Arabs are a skin colour? And who here is painting the UK to be racist? We are talking about this individual case and these individual students making a mockery. I don't know what victim complex you're talking about,I have white friends,I'm mostly white myself,they've never tried to appropriate my middle eastern culture.

Who has said the whole of society is racist? We are talking about this particular issue. Again,you seem to be confusing race with religion. I'm an Arab,a Christian Arab but do I hate atheists? Nope. Do my Syrian family hate atheists? Nope. Do my Middle eastern friends hate atheists? Nope. I think you're confusing this whole story alittle. Nobody is talking about the UK as a whole. We are talking about this individual case right now,so for you to try and brand all Arabs as atheist hating is abit confusing to me.

Most of our culture is the same. That's what unites us as Arab. The language and culture,sure we have changes and differences here and there but we are mostly the same,so yes it does represent Arabs unless you specify which country in the Arab world.

I know he's a very nice guy but he's not my role model,so I don't care who he decides to invite to his palace. Yeah he did it in a jokey way but that doesn't give the other guy the right to mock Jordanian culture because he probably doesn't know the history of said culture m. Why can't people just stop with the need to feel like they have to mock this and that in the name of having fun and 'satire'. Russell peters shouldn't be mocking our culture in the first place. People take pride in their culture,it what brings them closer,so yes I'm sorry if people are easily offended.

I'm not against comedy,satire but intentional mockery of a minority people/majority,especially where the mocker knows nothing about said culture is disgusting if you ask me.

It's not a racist comment as I wasn't talking about a particular race,re read

That's the thing. The majority of the time,outsiders who are culturally appropriating another person's culture are uneducated about that particular culture and its history.'

Mockery of any culture is unacceptable.

No, Arabs are Arabs and Jews are Jews.