Kid criticised for trying to look like his hero

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And now from the sublime to the ridiculous; this absolute mouth-breathing winner has somehow reasoned that an excellent analogy for this whole argument would be Ben Cousins, a previous Perth footballing "hero" who is now famous for getting arrested, crashing cars, doing drugs and fraternising with organised crime. So he dressed his young son up in the team strip and put white powder on his nose to provide the link between the player and drug use. Because white powder, black paint, drug use, race - gettit? Just the same isn't it?

His reward has been the approval of 18,000 other mouth-breathing morons who think he has somehow scored a victory for common sense and worse than that, someone (stand up Catherine Healey, your Pulitzer awaits) considered that news worthy As I said in my previous post, these are people you have to see to believe.

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I'm still not getting this I'm afraid.

The dictionary definition of racism is "prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one's own race is superior"

How is idolising someone enough to want to look exactly like them for a day in any way related to the above? Why does the race of the person being idolized have an bearing in it? What does likening it to a practice that stopped years many ago and was offensive far more because of the dreadful characterisations and racial stereotypes it promoted rather than the makeup itself achieve?

All very silly, and a distraction that detracts from the fight to stamp out the real racism that is still far to common in modern society IMHO.