Offended Cornell Students Freak Out After Football Coach Tweets Sombrero Picture

©2016 Reason Foundation. ^ | Sep. 21, 2016 2:50 pm | Robby Soave

[Behind Liberal Lines]

Cornell University Football Coach Roy Istvan apologized to students who were offended by an image he tweeted: an image of two of his players wearing sombreros.

Why were they wearing sombreros? Istvan awards the big hat to the player or players who best represented team spirit on the field after a game.

This practice has displeased some members of MEChA de Cornell, a Mexican student group.

"They're appropriating a culture that isn't theirs and using it as a joke," wrote one student on MEChA's Facebook page, according to Campus Reform. "It's disgusting and I'm ashamed that you can't see that."

The Facebook page's administrators posted a link to Cornell's Bias Response Team and encouraged students to file a complaint against Istvan.

Another person demanded action from the student-government.

"What is your [the Student Assembly's] response to this?" asked the student. "So many of your fellow students' culture is being used as a prop consistently on this campus and it is supported publicly by this university. Will you pass a proposition to recommend a faculty/staff diversity and cultural sensitivity training? Or will you just push it under the rug as you did the Cinco de Octubre event? I expect a response to this from the Minority Liaison."

You'll be hearing from the Minority Liasion! was apparently enough of a threat to persuade Istvan to apologize.

"I am truly sorry for the cultural insensitivity and understand how our expression of pride came at the expense of others in the Cornell community," he wrote on Twitter.

The image was initially retweeted by Cornell's official Twitter account, which prompted one member of student-government to seek an apology from the university.

"Publically supporting this is absolutely unacceptable, and I request that you remove this immediately," the student wrote.

[T-Bone Texan]

Mao had “response teams”, too.

[T-Bone Texan]

Let’s follow up with no indoor plumbing, toilet paper, or antibiotics for hateful vibrant people, as that would be culturally appropriating.

[Impala64ssa]

Does this mean I should have been whining and complaining every year when a bunch of idiots of Italian, Jewish, Hispanic, German, etc. extraction wear those silly green bowler hats to the St. Patrick’s Day parade in New York or Boston
Speaking of which, how about Lucky Charms cereal? for the last 50 years it's been marketed by a cartoon caricature of a green leprecaun with an Irish brogue acting silly and superstitious. Yet the Hibernians, the Emerald Society, Sons of Erin, even the IRA (it's a popular kid's cereal in the UK as well) NEVER uttered a peep of protest about this. Years ago some smart-ass students at Rutgers posing as "Irish-American activists" petitioned to ban the cereal from the cafeterias as a gag, the adim, being the PC chickensh!ts they are actually fell for this phony demand. On a related note, among the most popular video games from the 80's and 90's, Mario Bros. The main characters, Mario and Luigi are shown with thick mustaches dressed up like the "Super" in an old NYC walk-up apartment building. programmed to speak with obvious italian accents frequently blurting out "MAMA MIA!". Have the Sons of Italy or the Italian Anti-Defamation league ever bitched about that?

[Impala64ssa]

They’d better stay away from Dillon SC then.
Oh, yeah!

[luvbach1]

How stupid is that!!? Go to Tijuana or anywhere else in Mexico and they will be only too glad to sell you a sombrero or anything else Mexican!

[GGpaX4DumpedTea]

FU MEChA de Cornell...

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Sheesh, those sombreros pequeños are offensive? They could have gone with these to score some major cultural appropriation offensive points:

[Phillyred]

Sadly the real world won’t eat them alive because they are creating an Orwellian new speak world that will bow to them.

[bgill]

Carlos must be sexting under the little sombrero.

[ConservaTeen]

4 years ago, for Halloween, I decided to be a Mexican..(my grandmother show me a picture of my dad as a Mexican for Halloween, so we have a sombrero and my grandmother helped me be a Mexican.

I didn't know I was insulting Mexicans...but I don't give a F either...

I might go out as a Mexican with my FRIEND as Donald Trump deporting me...

[PLMerite]

Darth Valdez?

[Impy]

Cornell's Bias Response Team

Oh, go bleep yourselves libtards.

[SirLurkedalot]

In boxes

[M-cubed]

They’re literally WAITING AROUND for chances to be offended by stuff.<<<

How dare u say that to me!...Ill see u in court!...You $3&(#$% /s

[Brown Deer]

Video:

[metmom]

My response....

[taxesareforever]

Now if the players were sleeping in the hats then they probably wouldn’t have been offended.

[wardaddy]

Bias Response Team?

Lord it like we are now living The Turner Diaries except whites have yet to fight back

I confess in 1991 when I read the paperback out of curiosity prompted by an E-8 Green Beanie buddy of mine I thought William Pierce was nutz

Never knew to what degree he was so prescient though

So much of the feared retaliation towards and demonization of Whites and Christians...has occurred

Plus forced accommodation

[wardaddy]

[Jack Hammer]

Just retreat to your safe space, kids, and suck your thumbs.