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UMass Amherst Creates 'Flow Chart' to Determine If Your Halloween Costume Is Offensive
Washington Times ^ | October 20, 2016 ast | By Ken Shepherd - The Washington Times

Posted on 10/20/2016 5:46:18 PM PDT by drewh

The University of Massachusetts, Amherst has created a handy flow chart for students to help them determine what NOT to wear as a Halloween costume.

Devised by UMass Amherst’s official diversity office, the “‘Simple Costume Racism Evaluation and Assessment Meter’ (S.C.R.E.A.M.) … poses several costume-related questions, the answers to which take one to various points on a ‘threat meter’ that ranges from green (low) to red (severe),” Campus Reform reported on Tuesday.

For example, “If one intends to represent a person on Halloween, the only way to get a ‘green’ threat rating is for the person to be of one’s own race. If one represents a person of another race, the ‘threat level’ increases roughly in conjunction with the amount of makeup that one intends to use.”

Halloween season has proven a time of year fraught with peril on college campuses, particularly in the liberal Northeast.

In December 2015, Erika Christakis, a lecturer at Yale, announced her resignation after being hounded for weeks by campus activists after Ms. Christakis sent an email to students defending the freedom of students to wear controversial Halloween costumes of questionable taste.

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TOPICS: Extended News; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: costumes; education; halloween; looneyleft; massachusetts
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To: drewh
I'm dressing up as UMass Amherst’s president. Buck teeth, bushy eyebrows and a "I'm a snowflake" t-shirt.


41 posted on 10/20/2016 7:04:54 PM PDT by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Donglalinger

ROFLMAO !!! ( this thread has potential !)


42 posted on 10/20/2016 7:15:29 PM PDT by 11th_VA (#boycottNFL)
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To: Red in Blue PA
Looks like an updated version of Bullshit Bingo.
43 posted on 10/20/2016 7:16:18 PM PDT by Oatka (Beware of an old man in a profession where men usually die young.)
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To: Diogenesis

Should be updated with the kid on the right as Hitlery.

Oh, wait! Maybe that is Hitlery in the middle.


44 posted on 10/20/2016 7:20:21 PM PDT by generally ( Don't be stupid. We have politicians for that.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Democrat Motto: We’re not happy until you’re not happy.


45 posted on 10/20/2016 7:22:01 PM PDT by generally ( Don't be stupid. We have politicians for that.)
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To: JoeProBono

Wow! I love it!


46 posted on 10/20/2016 7:23:54 PM PDT by wjcsux ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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To: Red in Blue PA

Begin->are you wearing a costume?-> remove it. It will offend someone.


47 posted on 10/20/2016 7:34:13 PM PDT by SkyDancer (Ambtion Without Talent Is Sad - Talent Without Ambition Is Worse)
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To: drewh
Hey, UMass!


48 posted on 10/20/2016 7:37:59 PM PDT by pgyanke (Republicans get in trouble when not living up to their principles. Democrats... when they do.)
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To: drewh

Scare the crap out of them. Go as a job application.


49 posted on 10/20/2016 7:54:53 PM PDT by Kadric
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To: drewh
all this stupid nonsense on college campuses.... This is how I feel
50 posted on 10/20/2016 8:18:26 PM PDT by Newton (All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.)
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To: drewh
Remember in "Gone With The Wind" when Rhett says to Scarlett:

"Although you need kissing badly. That's what's wrong with you. You should be kissed, and often, and by someone who knows how."

Well, we know what is wrong with liberals, and they should be ridiculed, often, by someone who knows how. It will end up being good for them.

Here is my contribution:

51 posted on 10/20/2016 8:57:38 PM PDT by rlmorel (Orwell described Liberals when he wrote of those who "repudiate morality while laying claim to it.")
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To: drewh

Want to put a real scare into them? Go as a Pastor, all dressed up for Sunday morning service, Bible in hand and all,


52 posted on 10/20/2016 8:58:33 PM PDT by WhatNot (The Gospel doesn't promise the American dream, it promises Eternal life in the Kingdom of God.)
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To: Donglalinger

That Bill Cosby one nearly made me choke on my drink!


53 posted on 10/20/2016 8:59:37 PM PDT by rlmorel (Orwell described Liberals when he wrote of those who "repudiate morality while laying claim to it.")
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To: drewh
 photo Bill amp Hillary Halloween masks 01_zpszq1fcvty.jpg
54 posted on 10/21/2016 12:14:14 AM PDT by ETL (Trump-PENCE 2016!!!)
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To: drewh
 photo Obama Halloween Mask 01_zpslacpsfjy.jpg
55 posted on 10/21/2016 12:14:51 AM PDT by ETL (Trump-PENCE 2016!!!)
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To: drewh
This one will no doubt offend commie left radicals and their assorted 'useful idiots'.

 photo Obama Halloween Mask 03_zpst7f16qbh.jpg

56 posted on 10/21/2016 12:19:07 AM PDT by ETL (Trump-PENCE 2016!!!)
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To: drewh

I think I’ll go in costume as a football player, basketball player or a hockey player - but knowing how the sports teams are playing (badly) I might be offensive with those costumes.


57 posted on 10/21/2016 5:09:00 AM PDT by ConservaTeen (Islam is Not the Religion of Peace, but The RELIGION of Pedophilia...)
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To: Gay State Conservative

True...that’s funny...


58 posted on 10/21/2016 5:12:15 AM PDT by ConservaTeen (Islam is Not the Religion of Peace, but The RELIGION of Pedophilia...)
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To: drewh

There are probably many students brainwashed enough to actually use this measuring tool. This may have been meant as a joke, and is a joke anyway.


59 posted on 10/21/2016 1:12:29 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: drewh

That was a classic.


60 posted on 10/22/2016 12:37:54 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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