Most U.S. university students support punishing their peers for wearing “highly offensive” Halloween costumes such as blackface, recent polling suggests.
The poll comes after a series of highly publicized events involving public figures such as Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau being shown in photographs wearing dark makeup to simulate being a black person. Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, a Democrat, appeared in a medical school yearbook in a photo either wearing blackface or donning a Ku Klux Klan costume. Northam initially gave a non-specific admission that he had done something wrong before withdrawing it.
