In response to "University sets example in frat scandal" by Robert Phansalkar:

Someday, we'll all realize that we're all just middle-class Americans who want a bite of the same pie. Fat people, gay people, ugly people, stinky people, and gypsies can all be Caucasian and can all be just as easily offended. Stop handicapping yourself with perceived racism; you'll never amount to anything until you realize that success depends on your talent as a capitalist, not a whiner.

The association made with any "ghetto" party on a majority-white campus is likely almost always a negative association that asks participants to imitate a group of people and a culture that they may not have any real dealings with in an ignorant fashion, which intentionally or unintentionally degrades a sub-culture of people at the least, and degrades an entire race (perhaps multiple races) simply by association at its arguably worse.

In response to "Legality of hibjab vital to security" by Danny Tenenbaum:

"Kinda like it's absolutely unacceptable to burn the flag, but freedom of speech demands sacriligous cartoons about Mohammad be printed,"

BS! I'm unaware of anybody being killed over flag-burning. There's also been a notable lack of riot and arson over flag burning.

Do you even know what you're calling BS on? Flag burning and Mohammed cartoons are both free expression. Why do conservatives attack one while claiming the other is acceptable, going so far as to even encourage the cartoons?

i agree that people have irrational criticisms against other cultures when their own ones are just the same, people just don't realize it. people dont understand that many muslims do it as their own choice, though there may be a lot of pressure from society on them. Shaving, make-up and high heels are all really inconvenient and uncomfortable and disguise your true look. You can choose not to do them or wear them, but a majority of women do at least the first two. I don't see how that's any different.

In response to "Draft may alter foreign policy" by Rob Rossmeissl:

And we think the soldier funny in his desert camouflage and Kevlar, a loser who drew poorly in the American lottery and so ended up in Iraq–our most privileged never acknowledging that such men with guns are the only bulwark between us and the present day forces of the Dark Ages with their Kalashnikovs and suicide belts.

In response to "UW erred, lost vital economist" by Ryan Masse:

Actually, I would be horribly ashamed if Madison was home to Friedman's Economic School, the people responsible for Augusto Pinochet and his Fascist regime, the deaths and "disappearances" of tens of thousands of social activists, their friends and family, as a result of the 1973 coup backed by the U.S. government which overthrew the democratically elected administration of Salvador Allende.