[Behind Liberal Lines]

“Celebrating our cultures is important and vital for all of us. Using stereotypes and other people’s cultures to market events is wrong,” she said.

Anyone else get the impression that, if the Hispanic student group had done the exact same promotion, it would have been "celebrating our culture" and not "marketing events"?

Ithaca is the City of Evil.

[Behind Liberal Lines]

City of evil bump

[raybbr]

“I was disappointed that this theme was stereotyping the Mexican culture of which I identify,” Martinez said.

Well, there you go. No one sees the outrage in, what I assume is a U.S. citizen, identifying with a foreign nation first before their home country. And, if she's not a U.S. citizen who cares what she thinks?

[TomGuy]

What a crock!

Look at what marketing has done to Independence Day, Presidents’ Day, etc.

People can find anything to be offended by, if they look hard enough.

[Mears]

I’m stunned.

What about green derby hats on St. Patrick’s Day?

French berets?

German leiderhosen ?

Chinese hats? (They’ll have to rename Chinaman’s Hat in Hawaii )

Are they all offensive?

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[GeronL]

90% of what leftists do is culturally insensitive