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Student Who Complained About Sombreros at a Mexican Dinner Treasurer of Group That Used Sombreros...
National Review ^ | 10/21/15 | Katherine Timpf

Posted on 10/21/2015 3:20:01 PM PDT by markomalley

The Clemson University student who got so upset about the way the school cafeteria used sombreros in its Mexican-themed food night was treasurer of a campus group at the time it used sombreros to advertise its own Mexican-themed food event.

Earlier this month, junior Miti Gamez told Clemson’s newspaper, the Tiger News, that the school’s “Maximum Mexican” event deeply offended her in part because the people serving the food were wearing sombreros:

“@clemsondining why??? Our culture is not a costume & we will not be mocked!” she tweeted at the time, according to the newspaper.

So, not wanting to upset her — and that desire to not upset her being far more important than the campus tradition that students had been enjoying — Clemson issued an apology, saying it had “failed to live out [its] mission” by doing something so awful.

But here’s the thing: According to an e-mail sent to NRO from the current president of a campus group called Latinos Unidos, Xochitl Hernandez, Gamez was its treasurer in September of 2014 — when it advertised a “Super Taco Night” using a graphic of a Mexican man with a moustache and wearing a sombrero.

The “Super Taco” advertisement was initially reported by Badger Pundit. (By the way, the Mexican man on the flyer is also is also holding a taco and appears to be standing in front of some sort of liquor bottle.)

#share#Despite Gamez’s reaction to the “Maximum Mexican” event, she was clearly not all that upset when her own group did something so similar. In fact, Hernandez also stated that Gamez has been co-president of the group since March. Her current LinkedIn page identifies her as co-president as well.

And there’s more.

The College Fix reports that Gamez had actually tweeted praise of the “cute sombreros” — yes, “cute sombreros” — that Clemson used in a “Fiesta Night” last April:

Look. I’m a white girl, and I understand that that means I have no way of knowing what kind of anger and trauma that Gamez might have had to to endure upon seeing that particular kind of hat near a particular kind of food.

I do know, however, know of one thing that does anger me: hypocrisy.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; US: New York; US: South Carolina
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1 posted on 10/21/2015 3:20:01 PM PDT by markomalley
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To: markomalley

The headline should read: “Another Liberal Hypocrite Exposes themselves to the world”


2 posted on 10/21/2015 3:22:24 PM PDT by GraceG (Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
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To: markomalley; metmom; Tired of Taxes; fieldmarshaldj; Impy; GOPsterinMA

In a nutshell- THIS IS RIDICULOUS!!!!!!!

Another Politically Correct “Microaggression.”


3 posted on 10/21/2015 3:23:07 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued (The War on Drugs is Big Government statism)
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To: markomalley; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ..
Thanks markomalley.

4 posted on 10/21/2015 3:23:16 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: Clintonfatigued

More like microhypocrisy


5 posted on 10/21/2015 3:27:49 PM PDT by scottinoc
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To: markomalley

What’s wrong with sombreros? If you want to keep the sun off you, they are pretty good.


6 posted on 10/21/2015 3:28:55 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: scottinoc

It could also be called Microhypochondria.


7 posted on 10/21/2015 3:29:35 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued (The War on Drugs is Big Government statism)
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To: markomalley

No shock here. Typical liberal hypocrisy.


8 posted on 10/21/2015 3:29:44 PM PDT by albie
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To: markomalley

Libralism is a mental disease.


9 posted on 10/21/2015 3:30:51 PM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: Don Corleone

Wonder if she goes to Taco Bell?


10 posted on 10/21/2015 3:35:09 PM PDT by Sasparilla
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To: markomalley

More faux outrage. I’m shocked I tell you. Every damn stupid should wear a sombrero to next year’s Mexican Taco Day, but of course they won’t.


11 posted on 10/21/2015 3:44:27 PM PDT by mykroar ("Never believe anything until it has been officially denied." - Otto von Bismarck)
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To: mykroar
Every damn stupid

That's should have been student, but I'll let Freud have that one.

12 posted on 10/21/2015 3:45:05 PM PDT by mykroar ("Never believe anything until it has been officially denied." - Otto von Bismarck)
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To: markomalley

Some people crave notoriety even if they have to make fools of themselves to get it.


13 posted on 10/21/2015 3:48:25 PM PDT by oldbrowser (The kangaroos have taken over the supreme court.)
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To: markomalley
…New Student Dialouge, Poverty Simulation @ Clemson University (Mitzi Gamez)

https://youtu.be/UVH9B8Thvm8

14 posted on 10/21/2015 4:00:22 PM PDT by moovova
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To: markomalley

I am offended that she is offended.

Call it a draw.


15 posted on 10/21/2015 4:12:08 PM PDT by joshua c (Please dont feed the liberals)
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To: markomalley

As Roseanna Danna might say, “BITCH”.

Or Dan Akyroyd, “Miti you slut”.


16 posted on 10/21/2015 4:18:31 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: markomalley

I saw sombreros at our local party/costume store. They were made in China...


17 posted on 10/21/2015 5:21:28 PM PDT by sockmonkey (Of course I didn't read the article. After all, this is Free Republic.)
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To: markomalley

Rules for thee, not for me


18 posted on 10/21/2015 5:22:26 PM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: markomalley

The “left” are mentally ill.


19 posted on 10/21/2015 5:54:59 PM PDT by Ray76
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To: markomalley

Sombreros are one of the worlds most practical type of hats.
People looking to stink think like this.
These kind of people just like to fart upon entering a room because they think it’s marks their territory.


20 posted on 10/21/2015 5:58:37 PM PDT by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our one and only true hope.)
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