Posted on 03/18/2015 7:01:20 PM PDT by Steelfish
University of Georgia Greeks Ban Hoop Skirts Because They Look Racist Gone with the politically-correct wind . . .
by KATHERINE TIMPF March 18, 2015
After a meeting with school administrators on Monday, University of Georgia sororities and fraternities have decided to ban hoop skirts from their events over concerns they might look racist. Victor Wilson, UGA’s vice president for student affairs, explained that the ban was due to concerns over what kind of “message” the skirt might send, and compared it to a previous ban on Confederate uniforms, according to an article in the Athens Banner-Herald. In other words: The fact that people wore hoop skirts during the era of slavery in the U.S. makes them symbols of racism.
“The student leadership, staff and advisors agree that Antebellum hoop skirts are not appropriate in the context of some events,” read an e-mail sent out Tuesday by Ashley Merkel, president of UGA’s Panhellenic Council, and Alex Bosse, president of the Interfraternity Council. Students had previously worn them to events such as the “Magnolia Ball.”
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You just can’t make this sh*t up!
o.O
Well, if they had not invented hoop skirts specifically for the Civil War, we would not have this problem.
/sheesh
Will they now have a column in "Glamour" or "Cosmo"?
Maybe we need to sic 'em on Moochelle. Somebody needs to have a heart-to-heart about that yellow tablecloth she wore to Japan today.
Let’s ban universities. They might be racist, too. In fact, let’s ban people. They can be racist.
Start telling these totalitarians to go to hell.
Everyone and everything white is racist. The anointed sages of political correctness have declared it to be so. They’re bigger gasbags than the Hindenburg.
“Some other symbols, like the Confederate soldier uniforms once worn by members of some fraternities on special occasions, were banned years ago, Wilson noted Tuesday.”
Only a revisionist fascist would call banning history positive ‘progress’. Forutnatly Collage campuses are filled with such anti-historical fascist starting with the professors.
The self-anointed it should read.
Ban hoop skirts.
I don’t care about hoop skirts, I never think about hoop skirts, I had to look up hoop skirt.
So, it’s a dumb idea. Let’s ban everything we can think of that can lead anyone to think about pre-Civil War days. Let’s ban cotton, horses, columns, carriages, staircases, kitchens,....(this is going to be a long list)..biscuits, boutiques, balls, ...
The PC crowd is out of control. Next are they going to ban crosses because the Klan burned them?
Gone with the Wind fans will not approve ,LOL
Good point. Hadn’t thought about that....
This is the new strategy to disconnect citizenry from the history of this country.
It’s just a different deployment of the memory hole.
Hoop skirts were very popular in the 50s.
The 1950s.
What have these idiots been smokin’?
.
They only want the “old south” to be remembered is lynchings, slavery and 1960s racism. Anything else that has to to with our heritage is banned. It’s truly disgusting. Hoop skirts are now racist. They act like slavery actually still exists. Do the black students at UGA actually think slavery still exist? If they are so uncomfortable, why don’t they go to black colleges? Geesh.
Ban white people too. ‘cause some are racist.
Ban black people too. ‘cause some are racist.
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