And yes, it IS funny.
Posted on 10/26/2016 7:04:44 AM PDT by pabianice
... Colleges have promoted programs time and time again that set clear parameters as to what types of costumes are acceptable on campus. The University of Massachusetts is no stranger to these programs. In fact, all across campus on Sunday night there were mandatory floor meetings in many UMass dorm buildings to cover what constitutes an offensive costume and to review the concept of “cultural appropriation.”
Recently, a residential assistant at UMass created the “Simple Costume Racism Evaluation and Assessment Meter” (or “S.C.R.E.A.M.”) so that students can evaluate how offensive their costume may be using this scale. It asks a variety of questions that can be used to gauge the “threat level”—everything from “Are you trying to be funny?” to “Is/are the person/people you’re mocking generally less powerful or more socially marginalized than you?”
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I believe we should ask iran, North Korea, Russia and China what they think about the situation.
Wonder how much time he spent coming up with that acronym????
And yes, it IS funny.
Just slip on black pants and a black tunic. In fact, let’s just mandate everyone must dress the same to promote unity.
I remember Mao had great success with his fasion forward thinking.
A man can dress up in “drag” as a woman, and people fawn over him. But let a man dress as another race and he is excoriated as a “Jim Crow” racist.
LOL!!!! Where did this come from?
I’m beginning to think that we really should protect students from cultural appropriation. This would mean that we should no longer admit students of non-European descent to universities, a European invention, or permit them to vote, a distinctly European-derived political technology.
Seriously, universities before WWII spent a lot of time trying to “morally improve” their students. For example preventing male and female interaction unless under faculty chaperone, forbidding students from owning cars, and requiring students to live on campus and to be in their dorm by a particular time, with curfew. In many schools, undergraduates could not even marry.
The returning WWII vets put an end to that totalitarianism, and so schools were much freer places for a long time.
However, the impulse to control students’ lives is a strong one. At least before it was in the spirit of ‘Alma Mater’ (Caring Mother), but now it is a cross between the “control issues” of the administration and faculty, and crude leftist indoctrination.
Soon, the students will rebel by taking their social lives off campus. And the schools will retaliate (some already have), by decreeing that even off campus activities can be controlled by them. Eventually they will get back to trying to make campuses “minimum security educational experiences”, by forbidding students from leaving campus without permission.
Ooh! Ooh! I want to play! What are the approved score scales? I want my costume to be as offensive as humanly possible and need to know how to increase my score for maximum offensiveness!
Perhaps other relatively successful snowflakes can hire them.
>> “Is/are the person/people you’re mocking generally less powerful or more socially marginalized than you?”<<
On college campuses these days, there is nobody more “socially marginalized” and with “less power” than straight, white, Christian men.
That right there is creative!
It's not the making of rules that is the issue, it is the current PC nature of the rules that is the problem.
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