Posted on 05/10/2017 2:14:28 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
It wasn’t a Cinco de Mayo party. It had no sombreros or tacos, as far as anyone knows.
Yet the University of Chicago’s Phi Gamma Delta, known casually as FIJI, has nonetheless been reported for the “bias incident” of throwing a party where attendees wore construction outfits.
Relevant to know: Its fraternity house has been “under renovation and construction for two years.”
But activists don’t care about context. If the left-wing arbiters of cultural appropriation get their way, FIJI’s members could face disciplinary action.
The Chicago Maroon reports that the party was originally scheduled for May 5, but its start time was revised to midnight May 6. Its original theme was “get hammered” – hence the Photoshopped construction hats on fraternity brothers, hammer and construction crane in the Facebook invitation.
The left-wing Latino student group MEChA issued a veiled threat May 4 to anyone who might violate “the fine line between celebrating culture on a national holiday and undermining the cultural dignity of a group through ignorant and ill-intentioned appropriation.”
(Excerpt) Read more at thecollegefix.com ...
Seriously, how much longer are we gonna let the forces of evil suck up all the good oxygen?
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