SOLELY to piss them off.
Posted on 03/07/2016 10:25:21 AM PST by simpson96
On Saturday, two members of Bowdoin College's student government will face impeachment proceedings. What heinous transgression did they commit? Theft, plagiarism, sexual assault?
Nope. They attended a party where some guests wore tiny sombreros.
Two weeks ago, some students threw a birthday party for a friend. The email invitation read: "the theme is tequila, so do with that what you may. We’re not saying it's a fiesta, but we’re also not not saying that :)." The invitation - sent by a student of Colombian descent, which may or may not be relevant here - advertised games, music, cups and “other things that are conducive to a fun night."
Those "other things" included the miniature sombreros, several inches in diameter. And when photos of attendees wearing those mini-sombreros showed up on social media, students and administrators went ballistic.
College administrators sent multiple schoolwide emails notifying the students about an "investigation" into a possible "act of ethnic stereotyping."(snip)
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," and recommend that administrators "create a space for those students who have been or feel specifically targeted."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
That sound you hear is Chamberlain and the ghosts of the 20th Maine fixing bayonets one more time.
It wasn’t Pickett, that was Day 3.
Chamberlain faced elements of Hood’s Division/Longstreet’s Corps late on Day 2.
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!
>>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.
I’m embarrassed just reading about this idiocy.
>>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.
Jose Hose=JoseJose — man, what a strange auto-correct.
SOLELY to piss them off.
I think those school administrators are really and truly mentally unbalanced.
They don’t need no stinkin’ badges!
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.
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....]
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.
Who cares? You Trump supporters never miss a chance to slam Cruz no matter how petty it makes you look.
And I probably know more about it than the average person really needs to know.
Probably.
;-)
The horror!
The horror!...
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.
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