Monday, December 10, 2012

Penn State sorority photo: Insensitive or just fun?

http://inamerica.blogs.cnn.com/2012/12/07/penn-state-sorority-photo-insensitive-or-just-fun/

The author first describes the controversial incident where a Penn State sorority posted a Halloween picture of their members dressed in Mexican-themed costumes and holding signs that played on offensive racial stereotypes. The sorority was forced to submit a public apology and the school board and president denounced their irresponsible actions. The author uses logos in the form of quotations from school officials. However, she juxtaposes the opinions of Latino students from Penn against the opinions of other Latinos who commented on CNN's facebook page. The commentators thought that the picture was not offensive and only a little bit of harmless, college fun. Finally she ended with the opinion of race relations specialist, who cemented the fact that the line between "fun" and"insensitive" is dangerously thin. The author provides the opinions of people with many different viewpoints, allowing her article to be as objective as possible.

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