@the_originative_author3893

November 9, 2025 at 6:43 am

1000% agree. Thank you for a well articulated, honest, and constructive response! Absolutely needed. 👍
@avoidantbehavior

November 9, 2025 at 6:43 am

Damn I gotta broken dread in that spot too
@davidsimpson7229

November 9, 2025 at 6:43 am

Binge-watching your old videos has been time well spent.
@bathoryaria4127

November 9, 2025 at 6:43 am

My only problem with "How is This Still a Thing?" is that there aren't more episodes.
@n.h.alicia3278

November 9, 2025 at 6:43 am

+the1janitor I take offense to the usage of "triggered" to mean "offended". It is an actual psychiatric term, referring to PTSD, flashbacks and similar issues. Using it in the current, meme way dilutes the meaning.
@n.h.alicia3278

November 9, 2025 at 6:43 am

I'll try my hand at this: These costumes are offensive because they portray an absurdist stereotype and claim it to be, for example, "mexican". They mock a specific race/vulnerable group. Not to say you can't ever dress up as a camp gay man, but be aware that what you are doing can offend people and may not be allowed under campus policy, the same way hate speech is not.
Unless your name is Milo, obviously. Then single out whomever you like for harassment.
@arbiterofreason2068

November 9, 2025 at 6:43 am

Good stuff, Free speech ftw!
@thepeacefish

November 9, 2025 at 6:43 am

why are you the only rational person on the Internet
@jumbowana

November 9, 2025 at 6:43 am

Some people are dicks. Some are ass holes. There doesn't need to be a fucking debate over insignificant shit like this. If someone wants to dress as Mohamed raping little boys and girls, let them. If you are offended by that, guess what. Nothing happens.
@iheartporcupines

November 9, 2025 at 6:43 am

There needs to be a class offered on college campuses where they just show this guy's videos.
@prschuster

November 9, 2025 at 6:43 am

Her email was perfectly rational and fair. I am losing patience with young adults who just moved out of mom & dad's house 2 years ago and think they have the world figured out so they can destroy the careers of people they disagree with.
@wondermash1720

November 9, 2025 at 6:43 am

YES. yes. YES. Forcing people to resign is not social justice. It is silencing people that you don't like. That's a lovely double standard. You are ruining someone else's job and livelyhood just for your own rebellion, for your own feelings. And now… everyone is copying each other's form of social justice and now, and they are doing the same thing for DIFFERENT situations because they're like…oh OK that worked for them and I really hate this professor/president/mayor/etc. so instead of creating a dialogue I'm going to make demands and if they don't do exactly what I tell them to, I'll make them quit their job because they aren't doing something I want them to do.
@MysteryWings1202

November 9, 2025 at 6:43 am

I agree with you almost completely, except that I don't think there was a problem with the email being campus-wide or "seeming" official. Considering that this is YALE University, it shouldn't be that hard for students and faculty to differentiate a command from a suggestion, and, like you said, there's nothing wrong with advising people to be racially sensitive. Maybe it wasn't the best way to go about the suggestion, but I definitely don't think that anyone should have felt that their free expression was challenged by that one email.

I also don't think that Christaki's email had entirely good intentions. When she says, "“I don’t wish to trivialize genuine concerns about cultural and personal representation," it seems to suggest that she doesn't see the "big deal" in offensive costumes. The worst part of the email, for me, is "Is there no room anymore for a young person to be a little bit obnoxious … a little bit inappropriate or provocative or, yes, offensive?" Doesn't it seem like she's minimizing racist acts as "little" and something only for "kids these days"?
@Jessicax3lyonnss

November 9, 2025 at 6:43 am

You got it. Again.
You know I wish you had been a professor where I went to college.
@vudemoniac

November 9, 2025 at 6:43 am

How did this holiday's costumes get switched from "Let's wear something that'll scare the crap out of people" to "let's find more ways to offend/censor/ridicule/insult other people"?
@regierse

November 9, 2025 at 6:43 am

There should be a rule that all Haloween costumes have to be spooky.
@redjack2629

November 9, 2025 at 6:43 am

Hey, T1J, I was a little iffy at first… But in the end, I agreed with you. I don't agree that you shouldn't be intentionally offensive, even but there is a limit there. however, there is ALSO a point where being a thin-skinned, hypersensitive social justice authoritarian is being no less of a dick than those who aim to offend (there is a tactful way to sho offense, and to be a little offensive, but I never trust that anyone has tact unless shown)…And I was worried that you wouldn't touch on that, and was hapilly mistaken. There IS an acceptable middle ground, and not only do we need to find it, but we need to accept that SOMEONE is going to be unhappy either way. I, personally, feel the best way you can handle it is that you're at least upsetting equal numbers of people on each side, if you can't please everyone.
@barbwaters6997

November 9, 2025 at 6:43 am

Thank you. Your insight is refreshing.
@beultra3083

November 9, 2025 at 6:43 am

Wow. Thank you for this eloquent and thoughtful response. I tried to communicate this to other around me and simply couldn't articulate my feelings. Gives me newfound respect for how much time these videos must take.
@jeanmacavery9578

November 9, 2025 at 6:43 am

This is pretty on point. I agree that a university shouldn't formally try to regulate something like a Halloween costume, and that the petition calling for the faculty member's resignation was overkill. At my college, there are a ton of clubs and organizations that spread the word about these kinds of Halloween costumes through meetings, posters, and Facebook posts. These clubs provide the safe space students need, and provide a place to address issues like this.
@FlesHBoX

November 9, 2025 at 6:43 am

So, outside of the movie "Attention White People", does anyone actually do blackface? Maybe I miss a lot because I don't pay attention to the news media, but that movie was the first time I had even heard the term "blackface" since I was in Jr. High learning about racism in America. That was a very long time ago.
@tylerdol

November 9, 2025 at 6:43 am

I'm really glad to hear other voices on the left pushing back against where this is going.
It's a weird place to be in when you agree with the essence of everything the protesters are asking for, but can't get behind an assault on free speech in the name of a warped sense of "justice."
Students telling each other what Halloween costumes are inappropriate is fantastic. Students demanding the firing of a perfectly reasonable person for expressing a perfectly reasonable opinion is terrifying. That is not justice.