College president cancels student drag show, comparing drag to blackface

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[FONT=var(--wpds-fonts-body)]Students at West Texas A&M University had been planning a drag show for about three months. It wasn’t going to be a large event, organizers said. They’d arranged for a drag queen from the nearby town of Amarillo to DJ and judge a small group of student performers at an on-campus event hall. They planned to donate the proceeds of the show to a nonprofit.[/FONT]

[FONT=var(--wpds-fonts-body)]On Monday, less than two weeks before it was set to take place, organizers suddenly learned that the show had been canceled by the university.
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[FONT=var(--wpds-fonts-body)]That day, university president Walter Wendler wrote in a schoolwide email that drag shows “denigrate and demean women” and called them an offensive performance comparable to blackface.[/FONT]


[FONT=var(--wpds-fonts-body)]“A harmless drag show? Not possible,” Wendler wrote.
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[FONT=var(--wpds-fonts-body)]https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/03/23/texas-university-drag-blackface/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_national[/FONT]
 
So the feigned outage against gay marriage, Sharia law, wars on Christmas, CRT have all faded away, and the poutrage du jour is drag?
 
Flash said:
[FONT=var(--wpds-fonts-body)]Students at West Texas A&M University had been planning a drag show for about three months. It wasn’t going to be a large event, organizers said. They’d arranged for a drag queen from the nearby town of Amarillo to DJ and judge a small group of student performers at an on-campus event hall. They planned to donate the proceeds of the show to a nonprofit.[/FONT]

[FONT=var(--wpds-fonts-body)]On Monday, less than two weeks before it was set to take place, organizers suddenly learned that the show had been canceled by the university.
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[FONT=var(--wpds-fonts-body)]That day, university president Walter Wendler wrote in a schoolwide email that drag shows “denigrate and demean women” and called them an offensive performance comparable to blackface.[/FONT]


[FONT=var(--wpds-fonts-body)]“A harmless drag show? Not possible,” Wendler wrote.
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[FONT=var(--wpds-fonts-body)]https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/03/23/texas-university-drag-blackface/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_national[/FONT]
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:cruisewhat:

Did he stop to ask women and female professors/students what they thought about it?
 
Flash said:
That Stanford Dean that interrupted the Federalist Society speaker is now on leave.
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Difference is she'll likely be back once the shitstorm cools down. Going against the Left at a university gets you fired. Standing up for the Left and starting a shitstorm of negative press gets you a timeout until it goes away...
 
I had a chance to go to a drag show once, but I passed.
I might have gone to a Formula One race if I were offered tickets to that, though.
 
T. A. Gardner said:
Difference is she'll likely be back once the shitstorm cools down. Going against the Left at a university gets you fired. Standing up for the Left and starting a shitstorm of negative press gets you a timeout until it goes away...
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West Texas A & M is not the "left." The president was probably trying to stay out of trouble with his Board of Regents.
 
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