Remove the Southern belle from her inglorious perch

Washington Post ^ | August 14, 2015 | Elizabeth Boyd

[SJackson]

Will observers ever recognize what the hoop — and the contemporary belle — have to do with the hate?

My opinion only, about as much as cotton.

Ban cotton shirts, underwear too.

[Steely Tom]

Another bozo who gets paid by the word.

[jtal]

While donning a hoop skirt on occasion may not constitute a hate crime

Wow.

[Tax-chick]

There are a lot of crazy people out there.

[Artemis Webb]

Nuts.

[Norm Lenhart]

I will be absolutely giddy the day that America decides that liberals belong in cages for the safety of all humanity.

[FES0844]

And I think we’re outnumbered!

[Smokin' Joe]

The hoop skirt ban was enacted in response to an ensuing uproar in March at the University of Oklahoma after members of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, a fraternity with Southern roots, were caught on video chanting a racist song with references to lynching.

Unless the frat brothers were weaaring hoop skirts, I really fail to see any connection between the two, or for that matter any of the events described.

There are a few aresholes out there waving Confederate symbols.

There are lots of other arseholes out there waving American Flags or wearing blue jeans and tee shirts. Are those going to be banned, too?

[Red Badger]

Yes, cotton balls are racist, too..........

[Organic Panic]

Do my eyes deceive me? I believe I see two young black women wearing hoop skirts in the attached picture.

And really. WTF??? Everything is racist to the perpetually offended. Unreal. HOOP SKIRTS!!! REALLY!?!?! What insanity.

[Dr. Sivana]

My daughter is black. She also wants to wear one of those things when she’s a bit older.

[Red Badger]

... And Q-tips...........

[Sasparilla]

Offended by hoop skirts? More evidence that easily offended liberals have a mental illness.

[glorgau]

> declared a ban on hoop skirts

Racist on it’s face. Compare to a ban on “drooping pants”.

[Jamestown1630]

Umm....those aren’t really hoop skirts.

-JT

[kalee]

Shaking my head. This is absolutely ridiculous.

[kaehurowing]

Obama needs to have the Justice Department Civil Rights Division issue an order requiring all Southern undergraduate women to dress like U.C. Berkeley lesbians.

[Red Badger]

The writer is stupid. Black women wore them as well............

[Norm Lenhart]

Cages. If we can’t load them on rockets and blast them into the sun, they need to be caged until that technology becomes available.

My ideal candidate would be one that criminalized modern liberalism. Lets face it. It has killed more people than Islam and Communism combined when you take into account the deaths resulting from it’s belief structure and ‘laws’.

And it has cost more in real $$$ and actual suffering than any other failed philosophy.