Posted on 09/22/2016 6:07:00 PM PDT by 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.
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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, and vomit all over the sidewalk after drinking themselves silly?
Let me make a list of American culture that Mexicans misappropriate - starting with college
But maybe they can apologize to the Mongolians first for stealing their hat design
LMAO.
The obvious solution would be to ban team spirit.
Perhaps the widdle whineys can come up with an appropriate hat. No, can’t wear a fez. No, can’t wear a beret. No, can’t wear a fedora. No, can’t wear a bowler. No, can’t wear a turban. No hunters’ caps or cowboy hats or fishermen hats or construction workers’ hard hats and definitely no police hats. No baseball caps as that is a slight to football helmets. No, can’t wear...
Can’t whine ‘bout that personally. I may have been the bloke buying said upchuckers a shot in congrats of their new lovely green. ;-)
Good point. The Irish and those of Irish extraction certainly don’t give a rip about this ridiculous notion of “cultural appropriation.” And it seems most Mexicans don’t either — Cinco de Mayo is celebrated by countless Americans dressed in all manner of Mexican dress. Seems just the college-age snowflakes have a problem with any of this stuff.
>>”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.”
How very queer, just last week liberals were besides themselves defending Disney’s kale and paprika “gumbo” saying that people shouldn’t get upset about such things.
To me it was a cultural MISappropriation (not even a celebration) and it was reviled by people of ALL colors.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-NAdHFYio4
There was a better reaction video from LSU Dad but it appears to have been taken down.
Perfect. Ha!
I m sick and tired of people coming to America and refusing to be assimilated. I am sick and tired of seeing Mexican flags paraded about and American flags burnt. I am sick and tired of anchor babies. I am sick and tire of Mexican and Central American drug gangs killing our children. I am sick and tired of people working for cash, paying no taxes and sending moneyback to Mexico while getting free medical, free education, free health care, free phones. Get to American and put on that sombrero, grab a beer, couple of tacos and nestle into that hammock enjoying the good life. I am sick and tired of uneducated Mexicans coming to America taking jobs from American blacks. Trump is right, vetted everyone, only let those are contributors not takers into America. Oh by the way, no muslims.
Party theme = B.E.T. vs. Country Music Television.
Call me a WAAAAAAH...! mbulance..!
What’s both disgustingly funny about this:
1- That ANYONE would feel “offended” at this, and
2- The “offending” coach apologized
WhattaWorld
We could get rid of these little snowflakes by forcing them to watch Blazing Saddles.
They would die from being offended every 5 seconds.
Well...he didn't want to be....deplorable? He wins. Pansy.
They’d burn the campus down during the bell ringing scene.
Any Mel Brooks movie. Should have a national marathon.
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Oh, my gosh.
It’s time to resurrect Al Capp’s S.W.I.N.E. (students wildly indignant about nearly everything).
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