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Offended Cornell Students Freak Out After Football Coach Tweets Sombrero Picture
©2016 Reason Foundation. ^ | Sep. 21, 2016 2:50 pm | Robby Soave

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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; US: New York
KEYWORDS: cityofevil; cornell; education; ithaca; newyork; sombrero
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To: Behind Liberal Lines
Do they still sell sombreros to tourists from the USA?

Just say, "A Mexican sold it to me and put it on my head, so it's OK. BTW, take off those baseball caps. We invented that game."

61 posted on 09/22/2016 6:43:23 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Kill TWITTER !! Kill FACEBOOK !! Free MILO !!)
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To: Talisker

Coaches used to be alpha males. Now they’re mostly just p*ssies.


62 posted on 09/22/2016 6:44:05 PM PDT by achilles2000 ("I'll agree to save the whales as long as we can deport the liberals")
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To: Mr. Mojo
Cinco de Mayo is celebrated by countless Americans dressed in all manner of Mexican dress.

I wonder how many millions of tacos and burritos are eaten every day by gringos? How much tequila is consumed.

63 posted on 09/22/2016 6:44:42 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (RATs, RINOs......same thing.)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Unfortunately, I have a kid going to school up there.

He’s marinating in the lib environment there.


64 posted on 09/22/2016 6:46:30 PM PDT by sauropod (Beware the fury of a patient man. I've lost my patience!)
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To: Viking2002
Um, what about Halloween? I guess the goblin, fairy, princess, robot, cowboy, monster, etc. unions will be up in arms for kids co-opting their cultural group.

Honestly, I wish the media would stop publicizing these outrageous exemplars of immaturity and intolerance. They're really embarrassing the little snowflake morons.

65 posted on 09/22/2016 6:46:58 PM PDT by EinNYC
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To: Behind Liberal Lines
Cornell's Bias Response Team

New version of old Russian Chekist Response Team

Chekist graduate trainees at KGB HQ at Lubyanka, 1928. Note that the Cheka was in the vanguard of world wide women's rights movement, 50/50 split.

66 posted on 09/22/2016 6:48:40 PM PDT by Covenantor (Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Offended by a sombrero? They’d better stay away from Dillon SC then.


67 posted on 09/22/2016 6:48:48 PM PDT by aomagrat (Gun owners who vote for democrats are too stupid to own guns.)
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To: Covenantor

Which one is Rosa Klebb?


68 posted on 09/22/2016 6:50:21 PM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: Kudsman

LOL.


69 posted on 09/22/2016 6:51:17 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Sometimes I feel like I've been tied to the whipping post.")
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

This PC crap is finished!! GO TRUMP!!


70 posted on 09/22/2016 6:53:59 PM PDT by WENDLE (Will Hillary have a "RELAPSE" before the debates?)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Cornell gave us Prof. George McT. Kahin and his Hanoi loving bunch of propagandists and liars in the Southeast Asian Studies program.

Drop dead, you reds and PC pricks.

However, there is at least one honorable scholar at Cornell, a decorated Vietnam veteran whose life has been devoted to freedom and the truth. I salute him and any others like him that I don’t know about.

The rest can go to hell.


71 posted on 09/22/2016 6:55:25 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

... And when they leave their baby crib that is a modern day undergrad delusion,
I, and other potential employers, shall be waiting for them - hungry like a wolf.


72 posted on 09/22/2016 6:57:55 PM PDT by LittleBillyInfidel (This tagline has been formatted to fit the screen. Some content has been edited.)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

WHY DID HE APOLIGIZE?

HE DID NOTHING WRONG !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


73 posted on 09/22/2016 6:59:36 PM PDT by Mears
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To: ilovesarah2012
I remember in elementary school doing the Mexican hat dance. I guess that isn’t allowed any more. We also sang Pick a Bale of Cotton.
During Hanukah and Passover in music class we'd sing Hava Negila or some Jewish Folk songs. No big deal. I've been to Ithaca a few times, my uncle is a Cornell graduate from way back, it was a nice town, but there's not a CHINAMAN'S CHANCE of me living in such a PC gulag if I were paid to do so.
74 posted on 09/22/2016 7:00:33 PM PDT by Impala64ssa (You call me an islamophobe like it's a bad thing.)
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To: Kozy
Looks like a job for Milo.
75 posted on 09/22/2016 7:02:16 PM PDT by bella1 (Je suis deplorable)
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To: Impala64ssa

“CHINAMAN’S CHANCE”

That is a VERY racist comment. :-)


76 posted on 09/22/2016 7:05:03 PM PDT by Mears
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77 posted on 09/22/2016 7:09:02 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Ditter
I would see this as an honor but the Mexican students must be ashamed of their culture.

A local Mexican restaurant brings out a sombrero when singing happy birthday to a diner.

Is that cultural appropriation?

78 posted on 09/22/2016 7:18:14 PM PDT by justlurking
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To: Jaxter; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; TWhiteBear; WildHighlander57; Velveeta; ...

Oh, dear.

Ping to photo at # 47 .


79 posted on 09/22/2016 7:22:37 PM PDT by LucyT
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To: cardinal4

Mao had “response teams”, too.


80 posted on 09/22/2016 7:23:35 PM PDT by T-Bone Texan (Don't be a lone wolf. Form up small leaderlesss cells ASAP !)
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