Political correctness devours yet another college, fighting over mini-sombreros

Washington Post ^ | March 3, 2016 | Catherine Rampell

[tanknetter]

That sound you hear is Chamberlain and the ghosts of the 20th Maine fixing bayonets one more time.

[tanknetter]

It wasn’t Pickett, that was Day 3.

Chamberlain faced elements of Hood’s Division/Longstreet’s Corps late on Day 2.

[FourtySeven]

First world “crime” no doubt. People are getting their heads chopped off by savages and this is what the body politic is worrying about. Sheesh!

[El Cid]

Thanks for the correction.
My Civil War history is extremely rusty, and I am not sure if I ever knew (pre-rust) that level of detail.

[freedumb2003]

>>Was having dinner at a Mexican restaurant yesterday (we were the only gringos there) and on the TV, they were showing Mexican videos in which the singers and dancers were proudly wearing and waving about their sombreros.<<

Jose Hose is one of the most famous singers in Mexico and he always features a traditional HUGE sombrero.

Many period telenovellas feature them and they are in the culture constantly.

These college administrators are doing the same as banning togas b/c the Greeks might be offended.

[cld51860]

I’m embarrassed just reading about this idiocy.

[freedumb2003]

>>My Civil War history is extremely rusty, and I am not sure if I ever knew (pre-rust) that level of detail. <<

The Germans won.

[freedumb2003]

Jose Hose=JoseJose — man, what a strange auto-correct.

[Lazamataz]

If I was a student at that college, I would dress like this guy, with a thick Mexican accent.

SOLELY to piss them off.

[kaehurowing]

I think those school administrators are really and truly mentally unbalanced.

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They don’t need no stinkin’ badges!

[Ahithophel]

From the article:

The statement deemed the party an act of “cultural appropriation,” one that “creates an environment where students of color, particularly Latino, and especially Mexican, students feel unsafe.” The effort to purge the two representatives who attended the party, via impeachment, soon followed.

The effort to purge should make every student at that college feel unsafe and provides ample grounds to impeach the whole lot of hyper-sensitive Bowdoin dingbats apparently running the asylum.

[Adder]

See...those are not mini sombreros...I am thinking thats the issue that set everyone guts aflutter...maybe they were making fun of zika virus mexicans....

[Jeeeeeeeezzzzzzzzzzzz...what horse crap this article is....]

[TomGuy]

We have come a long way from this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LLtU0R9LPM

Hank Williams - Kaw-Liga The Wooden Indian (1953)

I can remember a few decades ago when the Libs were all up in arms because of those wooden Indians in tobacco stores.

[Jeff Chandler]

[Girlene]

From Turtleboysports.com

[subterfuge]

Who cares? You Trump supporters never miss a chance to slam Cruz no matter how petty it makes you look.

[tanknetter]

And I probably know more about it than the average person really needs to know.

Probably.

;-)

[PATRIOT1876]

The horror!
The horror!...

[TomGuy]

Within days, the Bowdoin Student Government unanimously adopted a “statement of solidarity” to "[stand] by all students who were injured and affected by the incident,"

I was injured. Affected, even.

From laughing so hard that I think I strained my spleen at the stupidity of the college and student government getting so worked up over mini-sombreros.

What would they do if someone had a birthday party and gave out kazoos!!!!?????!!!!

[Individual Rights in NJ]

That is crazy. It is illegal to wear sombreros now?

Really? I didn’t realize articles of clothing were banned to be worn by certain ethnicity.

The school administrators are mentally ill.