Bayou Renaissance Man reports (in part):
Today’s award goes to all the politically correct students and staff at Bowdoin College in Maine.
Some students wore sombreros to a tequila-themed birthday party at Bowdoin College — and others were so offended that the school had to provide them with safe spaces and counseling to deal with it.
According to the school’s newspaper, the Bowdoin Orient, the e-mail invitation to the event called it “a ‘tequila’ party” and then added, “we’re not saying it’s a fiesta, but we’re also not not saying that 🙂 (we’re not saying that).”
This phrasing was, presumably, aiming to poke fun at the way the PC police often lose their minds over pretty much any party where tequila is present — which wound up being exactly what happened with this one.
Yep. According to the Orient, one student (1) reported that some of the attendees had been wearing sombreros at the same time as they were drinking tequila at the party, and all hell broke loose.
In an e-mail to National Review Online, sophomore Richard Arms states that there have been “3 school-wide emails from deans and our president, and there have been several ‘safe-space’ opportunities on campus for students to discuss how they were hurt and offended” by the party.
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Yes — safe spaces for people who have been hurt by the very existence of tequila parties and punishment for the people responsible for them.
There’s more at the link.
I’m not for outright hatred of either the participants, nor those offended, but SERIOUSLY?
Should we revert to the days of minstrel shows with White folk in Black face eating watermelon, or Speedy Gonzales cartoons with mice in sombreros with stereotypical accents (all performed by a Jewish guy) winning against the cat? (Even though they always WON?)
Probably not.
HOWEVER, should we be so offended by drunken college hi-jinks more about tequila than being stereotypically Mexican?
Was anyone maimed or killed?
Were those in sombreros summarily sent back across a symbolic border without due process?
SKIN – White, Brown, Black, Yellow, or some variant or combination NEEDS TO BE THICKER!
I’ve been seriously rail thin – skinny – in my lifetime (140 pounds), and also obese. Just over six foot and 350 pounds! And have been physically disabled since age 12.
You think I’ve not been called skinny, fatty, crippled, Forrest Gump, a ‘fat f**k’ and a number of other unkind things. Sure, it hurt at the time, but I know myself and my character have atoned for my mistakes and moved on.
And I never needed a ‘safe space’ to discuss how these epithets affected my life!
What’s going to happen when these bubble-wrapped snowflakes enter the real world? (I’m thinking a melt down.)
I’ve a dear friend who is less than average height. I’m disabled. On occasion, we’ve been known to address one another as shorty and gimpy. No harm or disrespect meant.
SKIN. THICKER.
I’m tellin’ ya.
PS – Who PAYS for these ‘safe spaces’?
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Nice story BUT: This whole incident “happened” at the University of Louisville In Louisville Ky. more than a year ago. EXACTLY as portrayed in the student paper. Right down to the “photo” Sounds like more communist print fraud to me.
Posted by Ray | March 6, 2016, 8:08 amHmmm. Food for thought.
But, regardless when/where it occurred, we all still need thicker skins! Thanks.
Posted by guffaw1952 | March 6, 2016, 8:14 amRegardless, reality is going to slap these little POS in the face when they get out in the big world!
Posted by OldNFO | March 6, 2016, 11:15 amAMEN!
Posted by guffaw1952 | March 6, 2016, 11:24 amI hope their future employers will provide “safe spaces” for them to get over the trauma of a customer not pleased with the fries. There might even be micro-aggressions involved! OMG!
Ha! Just kidding…these twits will never be able to get a job. Just applying means you might get told “no” and that probably has never happened before in their lives.
Posted by KM | March 6, 2016, 5:47 pm‘Safe spaces for all applicants’ (the sign hiding the exit to the alley…) 😄
Posted by guffaw1952 | March 6, 2016, 6:03 pm