Dartmouth Greeks cancel fundraiser for cardiac care over concerns its fiesta theme was racist

http://campusreform.org ^ | april 25, 2014 | katherine timpf

[lowbridge]

The presidents of the Phi Delta Alpha fraternity and the Alpha Phi sorority at Dartmouth have canceled a fundraiser for cardiac care over concerns that the theme “Phiesta” might be offensive.

The event, planned for Saturday, invited community members to hear a band play and enjoy virgin piña coladas and strawberry daiquiris, chips and salsa, guacamole and burritos.

All proceeds would have gone toward cardiac treatments, according to an article in The Dartmouth, the official campus newspaper.

But when Daniela Hernandez ’15 heard about the event, she sent an email to complain that the theme was racially insensitive.

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Phi Delt president Taylor Catchcart said Hernandez’s concerns were worth cancelling the entire event.

“We felt that the possibility of offending even one member of the Dartmouth community was not worth the potential benefits of having the fundraiser,” Cathcart told The Dartmouth.

Greek members held an informal meeting to discuss insensitivity in response to the event.

[Liberty Valance]

Daniela Hernandez - 'Phiesta' Queen

[Cats Pajamas]

Belushi is rolling over in his grave. This politically correct sh** would drive most rational people to need anger management.

[Cats Pajamas]

Looks like she could stand to lay off the tortillas and guacamole anyway.

[dfwgator]

So will they have to change the name of the “Fiesta Bowl” now?

[drew]

It reminds me of the Seinfeld episode where he crosses phone lines with what he thinks is a Chinese woman:

JERRY [is redialing] Should've talked to her; I love Chinese women.

ELAINE Isn't that a little racist?

JERRY If I like their race, how can that be racist?..

[chajin]

Remember when “race relations” only mattered as to how MOPAR, Ford and GM folks got along at the drag strip?

Remember when a "drag strip" was a place cars raced?

[onedoug]

¡Ay, caramba!

[Dilbert San Diego]

Just when you think political correctness can’t get any more absurd, then an incident such as this comes along, and pushes political correctness to new absurd heights, or depths.

Isn’t a fiesta a party, a happy event, in certain cultures? Thus, isn’t it honoring such a culture, if we have a fiesta with various favorite ethnic foods?

Carried to its extreme, then we can’t have any ethnic restaurants, such as Mexican restaurants. They are offensive to Mexican Americans, according to the way this girl thinks.

Ditto Italian or any other ethnic themed places. If people like this girl get their way.

[truth_seeker]

What the phuque ??

[sheana]

We used to have a neighbor at our marina who had a sailboat named....phucifino. I must’ve passed it 100 times before I looked at hubby and said I finally realized what the name of _______’s boat is. He said....duh. lol
Sorry but that’s what your post reminded me of.

[Balding_Eagle]

The cancellation can be summed up with a variation of the usual Leftist mantra,

“Even if only one more person died, wouldn’t it be worth it?”