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A Syracuse University fraternity claims that a shockingly offensive video that surfaced this week of a member taking an oath with racist and anti-Semitic slurs was satire, and part of a roast of an active brother who is a conservative Republican. In a statement on the Theta Tau chapters website, the fraternity explains Each semester our new members are given the opportunity to write and act out a skit, in order to roast the active brothers... This year, one of these brothers is a conservative Republican, and the new members roasted him by playing the part of a racist conservative character. The statement goes on: It was a satirical sketch of an uneducated, racist, homophobic, misogynist, sexist, ableist and intolerant person. The [young men] do not hold any of the horrible views espoused as a part of that sketch. According to the statement, the frat members who were seen laughing in the video thought racism, sexism, and homophobia are so wrong that they are laughable. It also claims that after the roast the members spoke about their actual beliefs shortly after their parody and we all agreed that those words should never be spokenin our house, or anywhere. The fraternity chapter was suspended from campus after the video of the oath surfaced online and was first reported by The Daily Orange.
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https://www.thedailybeast.com/syracuse-frat-racist-video-was-satirical-roast-of-republican-brother?ref=home
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)Enough of making any form of racism OK!
marble falls
(57,102 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Was he invited as a prop?
edhopper
(33,587 posts)Why is satirizing racism wrong. This is fodder for stand up comics and cable TV.
Is this any different from Blazzing Saddles or Dave Chappel?
Kittycow
(2,396 posts)Then their excuse might hold a little water. Very little.