Posted on 10/20/2016 5:46:18 PM PDT by drewh
The University of Massachusetts, Amherst has created a handy flow chart for students to help them determine what NOT to wear as a Halloween costume.
Devised by UMass Amherst’s official diversity office, the “‘Simple Costume Racism Evaluation and Assessment Meter’ (S.C.R.E.A.M.) … poses several costume-related questions, the answers to which take one to various points on a ‘threat meter’ that ranges from green (low) to red (severe),” Campus Reform reported on Tuesday.
For example, “If one intends to represent a person on Halloween, the only way to get a ‘green’ threat rating is for the person to be of one’s own race. If one represents a person of another race, the ‘threat level’ increases roughly in conjunction with the amount of makeup that one intends to use.”
Halloween season has proven a time of year fraught with peril on college campuses, particularly in the liberal Northeast.
In December 2015, Erika Christakis, a lecturer at Yale, announced her resignation after being hounded for weeks by campus activists after Ms. Christakis sent an email to students defending the freedom of students to wear controversial Halloween costumes of questionable taste.
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This is a college?
Really?
I can do it without looking:
1) Does your costume mock a famous Conservative (sex irrelevant)? OK
2) Anything else? Offensive
The Effects of Pseudo-Education on Young Adult Pseudo-Intellectuals.
Forget it, Jake, it’s UMass Amherst.
There went my plans for going as Hillary in blackface, wearing prison garb.
One of my daughters wore blackface and went as Harriet Tubman. She liked Harriet Tubman.
Sue me.
I like how the only answer to whether you would feel comfortable being shown on TV in-costume is “no”. What if you don’t mind?
An entire generation rendered clinically insane through relentless brainwashing.
“We will NEVER allow for ANYONE to EVER have FUN AGAIN!”
~ All Socialists, Always
Shouldn’t they concern themselves more with beating the South Carolina Gamecocks this weekend?
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