Cambridge College Cancels ‘Offensive’ Around The World In 80 Days Fancy Dress Party

Breitbart ^ | March 11, 2016 | Nick Hallett

[C19fan]

Students at a Cambridge college have cancelled a party themed on Jules Verne’s novel Around the World in 80 Days after complaints dressing up as another culture constituted “cultural appropriation”.

The decision by students at Pembroke College comes just days after Jesus College removed a bronze cockerel from the main hall over accusations it was “racist” as it celebrated a “colonial past”.

[C19fan]

Wusses.

[armydawg505]

Idiots. I hope they feel guilty about everything they do.

[rktman]

WTF? Srsly? And the absurdity just keeps on rolling. Guess someone felt nano-aggressed or something.

[Redcitizen]

Lack of a pioneering spirit.

[freedomjusticeruleoflaw]

These stories always have two ingredients, a handful of sparkle kids, and a spineless institution.

[Gaffer]

All actions by white people have to pass the scrutiny of the Ministry of Approbation.

[Original Lurker]

Matthew 24:10 (King James edition)

And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.

[Blue Jays]

It must be exhausting to awaken every morning and having to think ahead about how one will be "offended" again that particular day.

[BenLurkin]

Mao jackets for everyone.

[lacrew]

I don’t characterize this group as ‘wusses’.

Rather, as they grow older and infiltrate this nation’s halls of power, it very may well be their boot on my throat one day. I think they are dangerous and power hungry...and most disturbingly of all, they dismiss history out of hand.

[Truth29]

Maybe they should have proposed a party theme of Muslim “freedom fighters” against infidel oppression. The students would have had great fun dressing up in flowing robes and bomb belts and there would have been no objections.

[Tax-chick]

So true.

[elpadre]

This PC mentality among so many of the ruling class is exactly why Donald Trump has such an excited and motivated following, and is the favorite to win the nomination for president. People are fed up with it and want it to stop.

[Baynative]

I've long recognized that liberalism is a mental disorder. But, now I am completely baffled.

haw can the people who preach and exploit diversity in all that they do possibly oppose recognizing other cultures in such a way?

[GregoTX]

Colleges are getting worse every day. It seems a liberal education has taken a back seat to liberal indoctrination.

[Feckless]

So... every time a Mexican doesn’t wear a serape and sombrero, every time an Arab doesn’t wear a robe and keffiyeh, every time I see an Asian without a rice straw hat... all of these foreigners are stealing MY culture!!!!

[T-Bird45]

I wonder how this crew resolves plays and films that are set in another period so characters are dressed in that manner and act accordingly. Do they get catatonic when watching Downton Abbey for example? As another has noted above, it must be absolutely tiring to be constantly on the watch for such "offenses."

[onedoug]

In this same light, how can they not think Cambridge itself offensive.

[laplata]

“It must be exhausting to awaken every morning and having to think ahead about how one will be “offended” again that particular day”.

I’d like to come across one or more of these idiots. I’d offend them big time.

[Mr. K]

we should all wear the same clothing now to... like the communist china official uniforms for the people