<p>^ Let’s see. You dropped into the middle of the thread (#16), called another poster a racist – a very personal characterization of anyone – and then you got all sulky (#20) about being called out on it for being over the top, by claiming that calling you out on it was, ironically, unnecessarily personal. It seems like you are proving umboFever09’s point that you are easily offended. I’m not defending umboFever09’s tone, but I do believe that you making a serious accusation, followed by a definition that you cut and pasted out of a sociology book, isn’t really honest discussion. It’s an off-putting and sophomoric debate tactic. And I intend this in the spirit of honest discussion, not as a personal attack. I hope you can see that.</p>
<p>You guys are making this a bigger deal than it is. I’m black and I find the incident as having to do more with the party’s disturbance an not the fact that the students were black.</p>
<p>^^ You’ve misinterpreted my first post: I simply suggested that her views were unsavoury because they were reminiscent of cultural racism, xenophobia, or whatever you prefer to call it. If you think that made things too abstract, I don’t know what to say.</p>
<p>And if you think my second post was “sulky”, you’re trying to read emotion into my posts when there was none. I apologize that my style of writing isn’t aggressive enough for you, but I have no interest in starting a flame war. There’s nothing sophomoric about that.</p>