Unsafe space in college (graphic image inside)

[madoka]

The PC Police are at it again.

College kids having a tequila party with mini sombreros are creating unsafe spaces for students.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...b46cc4-e185-11e5-9c36-e1902f6b6571_story.html

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.”

And then . . .

It came out that the school provided sombreros for a reunion:

A Bowdoin alumna read my column today about Bowdoin undergraduates who’ve been disciplined for wearing sombreros, and she decided to email me about last year’s on-campus reunions. She said that the school provided a photo booth replete various hats, mustaches and other props conducive to taking silly celebratory photos.

Guess what was among those items: sombreros!

Not only did Bowdoin provide sombreros, but the school actually posted, on Facebook, pictures of people donning them for the photo booth. Here are a few embedded photos from Bowdoin’s public Facebook page. At least one of them appears to show undergraduates working at a reunion event and wearing the same school-provided sombreros.

So let’s get this straight. If students wear their own sombreros during a whimsical celebration, that’s an act of cultural appropriation so odious that they must be ousted from their dorm, campus social events and student government. But if alumni and students wear sombreros provided by the school during a whimsical celebration, that’s all in good fun, and the images ought to be flaunted on the school’s own Facebook page. Talk about mixed messages.

Again, I’m not taking a position on whether wearing sombreros is “culturally appropriative”/racist or not. As far as I can tell, the social norms on wearing sombreros are pretty ambiguous. But I don’t see how the school can argue that these “tequila party” attendees should have known better than to treat sombreros as silly props if the administration itself didn’t either.

 

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Do as I say, not as I do.

 

[BoberFett]

Damn conservatives, destroying the futures of students.

 

[rudder]

If a college student is in need of a safe space on campus... They should probably rethink their plans to leave home and do something else with their lives.

 

[realibrad]

Damn conservatives, destroying the futures of students.

Those on the right tell people what is wrong or right mainly based on religion.

Those on the left tell people what is wrong or right based on what is PC at that time.

Republicans are having a hard time right now because nobody can agree on what it truly means to be a Republican. The left is starting to have the same issues. You can see this with BLM going after the left more than the right.

 

[compuwiz1]

If a college student is in need of a safe space on campus... They should probably rethink their plans to leave home and do something else with their lives.

This.

We are raising a nation of pussies and milquetoasts. Pretty soon the country is gonna seem like it's been neutered. This is what liberals have created.

 

[pcgeek11]

This.

We are raising a nation of pussies and milquetoasts. Pretty soon the country is gonna seem like it's been neutered. This is what liberals have created.

It seems that way to me already.

 

[shortylickens]

Liberal: Someone who is so open-minded their brain has fallen out.



Colleges are NOT preparing kids for the future. They're preparing them for a fantasy land which doesnt exist.

 

[Jaskalas]

Did no one notice IQ scores dropping like rocks?
Because I'm fairly certain that's the only logical explanation for such rampant stupidity.

 

[Victorian Gray]

are we all appropriately outraged at the behavior of .000000000000000000001% of university students?

 

[Blue_Max]

are we all appropriately outraged at the behavior of .000000000000000000001% of university students?

Campus protests with hundreds of these... er... "like-minded individuals" makes up a far larger percentage than the <1% you disingenuously suggest.

Or perhaps you missed the black girl screaming about almost this very issue (the "insensitive" Halloween costumes) and that her university 'is NOT supposed to be an intellectual space, it should be a home!' was surrounded by several dozens of students as well. Also more than the <1% you imply.

We've all seen it. You're blatantly lying.

 

[woolfe9998]

Campus protests with hundreds of these... er... "like-minded individuals" makes up a far larger percentage than the <1% you disingenuously suggest.

Or perhaps you missed the black girl screaming about almost this very issue (the "insensitive" Halloween costumes) and that her university 'is NOT supposed to be an intellectual space, it should be a home!' was surrounded by several dozens of students as well. Also more than the <1% you imply.

We've all seen it. You're blatantly lying.

Everyone involved in any protest about ethnics issues on campus can't be equated with extreme anecdotes like this one or the screaming girl you're referring to. You're the one who's trying to enlarge this beyond its actual scope in reality. Which makes you the dishonest one, not him.

 

[Blue_Max]

Everyone involved in any protest about ethnics issues on campus can't be equated with extreme anecdotes like this one or the screaming girl you're referring to. You're the one who's trying to enlarge this beyond its actual scope in reality. Which makes you the dishonest one, not him.

She was screaming due to insensitive halloween costumes being 'cultural appropriation'.

How is that so radically different from tiny sombreros also being 'cultural appropriation'?

And if there were even a dozen people complaining about the tiny hats, it would be much closer to 1% of the student body; about a million times greater than her 1-person-tops number she's trying to claim.

From the article:

Partygoers ultimately were reprimanded or placed on &#8220;social probation,&#8221; and the hosts have been kicked out of their dorm, according to friends. (None of the disciplined students whom I contacted wanted to speak on the record; Bowdoin President Clayton Rose declined an interview and would not answer a general question about what kinds of disciplinary options are considered when students commit an &#8220;act of bias.&#8221

Other students closed ranks, too.

The school newspaper editorialized about attendees&#8217; lack of &#8220;basic empathy&#8221; and placed the event in the context of two other controversially themed parties from the past two years: a &#8220;gangster party&#8221; (at which some students showed up with cornrows and gold chains) and a racially insensitive Thanksgiving party (where some dressed as Pilgrims and Native Americans).

This is more than one or two college spastics having a spaz-attack.

 

[Victorian Gray]

Campus protests with hundreds of these... er... "like-minded individuals" makes up a far larger percentage than the <1% you disingenuously suggest.

Or perhaps you missed the black girl screaming about almost this very issue (the "insensitive" Halloween costumes) and that her university 'is NOT supposed to be an intellectual space, it should be a home!' was surrounded by several dozens of students as well. Also more than the <1% you imply.

We've all seen it. You're blatantly lying.

Wow, "surrounded by several dozen students as well" Several whole dozen?! Out of a student population of how many thousand? Damn you SocialMediaWarriors have a tough job ahead. Better get back to your twitter wars dude, there are SJWs to smite.

 

[Blue_Max]

Wow, "surrounded by several dozen students as well" Several whole dozen?! Out of a student population of how many thousand? Damn you SocialMediaWarriors have a tough job ahead. Better get back to your twitter wars dude, there are SJWs to smite.

They've been kicked out of their dorm, yet you still think this is a total non-issue from a minuscule, ineffective group.

 

[compuwiz1]

Hate to say it, but I've got two relatives who have gone off to universities in the last two years. They have become different people, not in a good way. Both are oversensitive to literally everything. Everything is racist, xenophobic, bigoted, sexist, overbearing, socially unjust, disgusting, etc.

Neither one of these kids were political in any way before they went off to college. Now they have become really passionate lefties. You can't even have a dinner table conversation with them about anything other than bland news. They are so easy to get unhinged about the littlest shit. PC is bullshit, but I have to suffer through it when I'm around them, hence I put them in meltdown mode.

 

[Victorian Gray]

They've been kicked out of their dorm, yet you still think this is a total non-issue from a minuscule, ineffective group.

Ohmyfuckinggod!!!!! [EDIT: just noticed that it was 2 not dozens] Several dozens of them kicked out of their dorm!!!!! The horror!!!!!

Thank goodness, Blue_Max, SocialMediaWarrior is manning the front lines on twitter.

Wait, why are you wasting time here. Back to the front lines with you. There are nassssty SJWs to slay on the tweeting interwebs.

 

[cbrunny]

Guys I'm really worried that I'm appropriating a Korean culture right now. My smartphone is a Samsung. Am I going to prison?

 

[compuwiz1]

Guys I'm really worried that I'm appropriating a Korean culture right now. My smartphone is a Samsung. Am I going to prison?

Not really.....you seem to be a typical, walk the street, average vanilla whatever you are.

 

[Triumph]

Investigation into a possible act of ethnic stereotyping...Has this university also banned Taco Bell from campus?

 

[Ackmed]

This.

We are raising a nation of pussies and milquetoasts. Pretty soon the country is gonna seem like it's been neutered. This is what liberals have created.

I agree.

This is just stupid. How anyone can get offended by this is just beyond me.

Investigation into a possible act of ethnic stereotyping...Has this university also banned Taco Bell from campus?

If there is one, of course they won't ban it. Or other restaurants/businesses that use pictures to advertise that someone can somehow misconstrue (or purposely) into something racial.

The fact that people reported this, and that the administration actually did something about it really speaks volumes for how far this has gone. Sadly it will only get worse. Fucking pathetic.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

I think this is great! There will always be idiots out there but, thanks to social media, it's much easier to identify people and organizations that can safely be dismissed from consideration.

 

[michal1980]

Ohmyfuckinggod!!!!! Several dozens of them kicked out of their dorm!!!!! The horror!!!!!

Thank goodness, Blue_Max, SocialMediaWarrior is manning the front lines on twitter.

Wait, why are you wasting time here. Back to the front lines with you. There are nassssty SJWs to slay on the tweeting interwebs.

are you really defending the people that have issues with mini sombreros?

Or lets make this simple for you:

Do you think its acceptable to kick someone out of a dorm room for wearing a sombrero at a party?

 

[TheELF]

Ay, dios mio!

Don't some of the mexican tequila bottles come with tiny sombreros as well?

 

[TheELF]

are you really defending the people that have issues with mini sombreros?

Or lets make this simple for you:

Do you think its acceptable to kick someone out of a dorm room for wearing a sombrero at a party?

Normal size ok,tiny size you make fun of tiny people so off you go.