Political correctness devours yet another college, fighting over mini-sombreros

Washington Post ^ | March 3, 2016 | Catherine Rampell

[simpson96]

On Saturday, two members of Bowdoin College's student government will face impeachment proceedings. What heinous transgression did they commit? Theft, plagiarism, sexual assault?

Nope. They attended a party where some guests wore tiny sombreros.

Two weeks ago, some students threw a birthday party for a friend. The email invitation read: "the theme is tequila, so do with that what you may. We’re not saying it's a fiesta, but we’re also not not saying that :)." The invitation - sent by a student of Colombian descent, which may or may not be relevant here - advertised games, music, cups and “other things that are conducive to a fun night."

Those "other things" included the miniature sombreros, several inches in diameter. And when photos of attendees wearing those mini-sombreros showed up on social media, students and administrators went ballistic.

College administrators sent multiple schoolwide emails notifying the students about an "investigation" into a possible "act of ethnic stereotyping."(snip)

Within days, the Bowdoin Student Government unanimously adopted a “statement of solidarity” to "[stand] by all students who were injured and affected by the incident," and recommend that administrators "create a space for those students who have been or feel specifically targeted."

[bjorn14]

It’s Bowdoin what do ya expect?

[tbw2]

Then we have to tell ethnic SJW that they can’t use the internet, cell phones or antibiotics because they didn’t invent that.

[dmz]

Many people on this site don’t know this little factoid about Cruz.

Anyone recall the uproar over the woman at a University that got railroaded because of comments made about Halloween costumes?

She is related to the wife of the Campaign Chairman of Ted Cruz. (Chad Sweet) It is her sister, IIRC

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LOL.

How is this factoid about Cruz?

[BwanaNdege]

Gee, the college antics of the 1920s like swallowing goldfish (actual ones) seem like a serious endeavor.

Aaaahh, yes!

That was known as the "World's Freshest Sushi" movement.

However, less publicity was given the vehement opposition by the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists.

[Batman11]

“They attended a party where some guests wore tiny sombreros.”

I laughed.

[Fred Hayek]

New campus dress code: Mao jackets. Oops, that’s appropriating Chinese culture. Little snowflakes perpetually offended.

[Steve_Seattle]

Would it be considered "racist" or "offensive" or "cultural appropriation" if someone wore a kilt to a celebration of some Scottish holiday? If someone wore an "Uncle Sam" hat on the Fourth of July? If someone wore a beret on Bastille Day?

The more I think about it, it seems that the proponents of "political correctness" are the most hard-care racists and bigots of all, because they think that any expression of cultural particularity is offensive. In other words, they are advocating a world in which distinctive cultures are ABOLISHED.

[BwanaNdege]

Show me your “injuries”.

"A response to Richard Arms and the Washington Post" - from the Bowdoin Orient

(please shed a tear or two while reading this)

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[punknpuss]

Pathetic. These are not students; they are paid whiners.

[Theodore R.]

Bowdoin lacks the push for mental acumen that it had in the days of Longfellow and Hawthorne, who graduated in 1825!