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‘Hump Day’ event cancelled after students claim bringing a camel to campus was racist
campusReform ^
| May 15, 2014
| Kaitlyn Schallhorn
Posted on 10/04/2015 5:48:08 PM PDT by Daffynition
Students at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota have cancelled an event to celebrate the end of the year after complaints that bringing a camel on campus could offend those of Middle Eastern cultures.
The “Hump Day” event, put on by the Residence Hall Association (RHA), was supposed to be “a petting zoo type of atmosphere” in which students could hang out and take photos with a live camel. According to Aaron Macke, the group’s advisor, the camel is owned by a local vendor and trained for special events.
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**...The camel wouldn’t have been the first animal brought to campus to be fawned over. According to the Minneapolis Star Tribune, the school brought a reindeer to campus in December apparently without incident...**
To: Daffynition
Stupid liberal Democrats. Camels were used by the US Army prior to the Civil War. Our educational system is failing miserably. Even Gen MacArthur saw camels in Arizona when he was a young boy.
To: Daffynition
Racist? Are they saying that Arabs are part camel?
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posted on
10/04/2015 5:51:24 PM PDT
by
Durus
(You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality. Ayn Rand)
To: Daffynition
Mike Mike Mike! What day is it?
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posted on
10/04/2015 5:51:27 PM PDT
by
goodwithagun
(My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
To: Daffynition
Maybe they should have brought Humpty to campus instead.
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posted on
10/04/2015 5:52:18 PM PDT
by
DemforBush
(Ex-Democrat, and NOT for Jeb. Just so we're *perfectly* clear this time.)
Labeled as *microaggression* on Stossel Show.
Let’s all learn boys & girls....the new[er] buzzword.....
Definition of microaggression in English:
noun
1A statement, action, or incident regarded as an instance of indirect, subtle, or unintentional discrimination against members of a marginalized group such as a racial or ethnic minority:
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posted on
10/04/2015 5:53:33 PM PDT
by
Daffynition
(*We are not descended from fearful men*)
To: Daffynition
Shoulda brought in cartons of “camels” and every body light up.
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posted on
10/04/2015 5:55:27 PM PDT
by
going hot
To: vetvetdoug
Chances that these brains-o-mush know any history, is equivalent to.....
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posted on
10/04/2015 5:56:55 PM PDT
by
Daffynition
(*We are not descended from fearful men*)
To: Durus
The jury is still out on that. ;)
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posted on
10/04/2015 5:58:53 PM PDT
by
Daffynition
(*We are not descended from fearful men*)
To: Daffynition
Can somebody explain to me how camels became racist?
To: Daffynition
Would this song consider wacist?
Maria Muldaur “Midnight at the Oasis”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlrKETxwRvM
Midnight at the oasis
Send your camel to bed
Shadows paintin’ our faces
Traces of romance in our heads......okey dokey perhaps they prefer the camel in a position.
To: Daffynition
I would demand chapter and verse of "the complaint" and when I was told it was private .... I'd walk that damned camel all OVER campus and invite the muzzies to pet and experience a bit of home.
IMO ... THERE WAS NO COMPLAINT
We need to stop cowtowing just because someone SAID something .... YOU know .... like .... the separation between church and state.
?
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posted on
10/04/2015 6:05:07 PM PDT
by
knarf
(I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true.)
To: Daffynition
Thou hast conquered, O swarthy Mohammedan.
The world has grown grey from thy breath.
We have drunk of things Lethean,
And fed on the fullness of death.
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posted on
10/04/2015 6:05:32 PM PDT
by
Southside_Chicago_Republican
(If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
To: goodwithagun
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posted on
10/04/2015 6:07:55 PM PDT
by
Daffynition
(*We are not descended from fearful men*)
To: going hot
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posted on
10/04/2015 6:08:46 PM PDT
by
Daffynition
(*We are not descended from fearful men*)
To: Daffynition
Perpetually offended panty waist leftists won’t let anyone have fun.
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posted on
10/04/2015 6:09:00 PM PDT
by
vpintheak
(A Free Man!)
To: Daffynition
LOL!
those doctors know (knew)how to light one up and just relax.
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posted on
10/04/2015 6:11:17 PM PDT
by
going hot
(Happiness is a Momma Deuce)
To: RegulatorCountry
Military camel...says: *HUMPH!*
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posted on
10/04/2015 6:12:08 PM PDT
by
Daffynition
(*We are not descended from fearful men*)
To: Daffynition
presumably, the Disability Resouces Office provides ladders so persons with disabilities can sit top the camel (or do whatever they wish to it from the back side?)
I mean,
Aqual Access... and all that.
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posted on
10/04/2015 6:13:08 PM PDT
by
faithhopecharity
(Brilliant, funny, and incisive Tagline coming to this space soon.....)
To: Daffynition
Talk about the nose under the tent moment....
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posted on
10/04/2015 6:13:38 PM PDT
by
hadaclueonce
(I thought Ethanol was the devil, now i find it is America is an Oligarchy)
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