UMass Amherst Creates 'Flow Chart' to Determine If Your Halloween Costume Is Offensive

Washington Times ^ | October 20, 2016 ast | By Ken Shepherd - The Washington Times

[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.

[bgill]

I'm dressing up as UMass Amherst’s president. Buck teeth, bushy eyebrows and a "I'm a snowflake" t-shirt.

[11th_VA]

ROFLMAO !!! ( this thread has potential !)

[Oatka]

Looks like an updated version of Bullshit Bingo.

[generally]

Should be updated with the kid on the right as Hitlery.

Oh, wait! Maybe that is Hitlery in the middle.

[generally]

Democrat Motto: We’re not happy until you’re not happy.

[wjcsux]

Wow! I love it!

[SkyDancer]

Begin->are you wearing a costume?-> remove it. It will offend someone.

[pgyanke]

Hey, UMass!

[Kadric]

Scare the crap out of them. Go as a job application.

[Newton]

all this stupid nonsense on college campuses.... This is how I feel

[rlmorel]

Remember in "Gone With The Wind" when Rhett says to Scarlett:

"Although you need kissing badly. That's what's wrong with you. You should be kissed, and often, and by someone who knows how."

Well, we know what is wrong with liberals, and they should be ridiculed, often, by someone who knows how. It will end up being good for them.

Here is my contribution:

[WhatNot]

Want to put a real scare into them? Go as a Pastor, all dressed up for Sunday morning service, Bible in hand and all,

[rlmorel]

That Bill Cosby one nearly made me choke on my drink!

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[ETL]

This one will no doubt offend commie left radicals and their assorted 'useful idiots'.

[ConservaTeen]

I think I’ll go in costume as a football player, basketball player or a hockey player - but knowing how the sports teams are playing (badly) I might be offensive with those costumes.

[ConservaTeen]

True...that’s funny...

[lee martell]

There are probably many students brainwashed enough to actually use this measuring tool. This may have been meant as a joke, and is a joke anyway.

[BradyLS]

That was a classic.