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Offended Cornell Students Freak Out After Football Coach Tweets Sombrero Picture
©2016 Reason Foundation. ^ | Sep. 21, 2016 2:50 pm | Robby Soave

Posted on 09/22/2016 6:07:00 PM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines

Cornell University Football Coach Roy Istvan apologized to students who were offended by an image he tweeted: an image of two of his players wearing sombreros.

Why were they wearing sombreros? Istvan awards the big hat to the player or players who best represented team spirit on the field after a game.

This practice has displeased some members of MEChA de Cornell, a Mexican student group.

"They're appropriating a culture that isn't theirs and using it as a joke," wrote one student on MEChA's Facebook page, according to Campus Reform. "It's disgusting and I'm ashamed that you can't see that."

The Facebook page's administrators posted a link to Cornell's Bias Response Team and encouraged students to file a complaint against Istvan.

Another person demanded action from the student-government.

"What is your [the Student Assembly's] response to this?" asked the student. "So many of your fellow students' culture is being used as a prop consistently on this campus and it is supported publicly by this university. Will you pass a proposition to recommend a faculty/staff diversity and cultural sensitivity training? Or will you just push it under the rug as you did the Cinco de Octubre event? I expect a response to this from the Minority Liaison."

You'll be hearing from the Minority Liasion! was apparently enough of a threat to persuade Istvan to apologize.

"I am truly sorry for the cultural insensitivity and understand how our expression of pride came at the expense of others in the Cornell community," he wrote on Twitter.

The image was initially retweeted by Cornell's official Twitter account, which prompted one member of student-government to seek an apology from the university.

"Publically supporting this is absolutely unacceptable, and I request that you remove this immediately," the student wrote.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; US: New York
KEYWORDS: cityofevil; cornell; education; ithaca; newyork; sombrero
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To: Behind Liberal Lines
"They're appropriating a culture that isn't theirs and using it as a joke," wrote one student on MEChA's Facebook page

I've learned the best way to reply to that to shut them up is to say YES, I DID.

21 posted on 09/22/2016 6:21:34 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: Kozy

Geez. In the Hippy Daze, a Mexican Serape and sandals made from old tires coming from Mexico were cool. How times have changed.


22 posted on 09/22/2016 6:21:50 PM PDT by Sasparilla (Hillary for Prison 2016)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

All of this coheres in a sick way:

The people who as kids regarded ANYTHING as a limit on their freedom as adults now insist that EVERYTHING is out of bounds.

From the unruly village anarchist to the Evil Church Lady in the fancy house up on the hill.


23 posted on 09/22/2016 6:22:19 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Yes, tens of millions in the USA have an unbounded thirst for and faith in big centralized government.


24 posted on 09/22/2016 6:23:46 PM PDT by Theodore R. (Trump-Pence, 2016)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

Yes. Totally.


25 posted on 09/22/2016 6:23:50 PM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines (#nevertrump is really #readyforhillary)
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To: Talisker

everyone has been deballed


26 posted on 09/22/2016 6:23:55 PM PDT by morphing libertarian (Proudly deplorable since 2016)
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To: Ditter

I remember in elementary school doing the Mexican hat dance. I guess that isn’t allowed any more. We also sang Pick a Bale of Cotton.


27 posted on 09/22/2016 6:24:02 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: Behind Liberal Lines
A hat = a culture?

This is an Ivy League school. What passes for intelligent now is a far cry from what defined intelligent twenty years ago. But Cornell offered this immature snowflake admission, so they deserve each other.

28 posted on 09/22/2016 6:24:07 PM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (If a border fence isn't effective, why is there a border fence around the White House?)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

The group that Trump’s little Mexican Judge buddy belonged to in College and Grad school.


29 posted on 09/22/2016 6:24:26 PM PDT by jessduntno (The mind of a liberal...deceit, desire for control, greed, contradiction and fueled by hate.)
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To: PGR88

30 posted on 09/22/2016 6:24:44 PM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines (#nevertrump is really #readyforhillary)
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To: Mr. Mojo
Pepetrually-offended snowflakes of all...

Pepe? You will be added to the MECha list!

31 posted on 09/22/2016 6:24:48 PM PDT by bubbacluck (America 180)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

If this is what students are up to nowadays, why not just abolish student government and let the adults run the show?


32 posted on 09/22/2016 6:24:58 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Just one of a basket of deplorables)
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To: bubbacluck

Lol.


33 posted on 09/22/2016 6:25:30 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo ("To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society." - Teddy Roosevelt)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

ok — no more cultural appropriation.

Let’s start with no more black people being allowed to play basketball, which was invented by a white college phys ed instructor for his white students.

Then let’s talk about no electricity for non-white people.


34 posted on 09/22/2016 6:25:47 PM PDT by Maceman (Screw the Party. Save the Country.)
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To: gaijin

Ay yi yi.


35 posted on 09/22/2016 6:26:10 PM PDT by Plummz (pro-constitution, anti-corruption)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

The university is developing a form so you can get three signatures from members of another ethnic group to approve you wearing their clothing.


36 posted on 09/22/2016 6:26:21 PM PDT by morphing libertarian (Proudly deplorable since 2016)
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37 posted on 09/22/2016 6:26:31 PM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: jessduntno

Gee what a coincidence.


38 posted on 09/22/2016 6:26:35 PM PDT by Kudsman (Hillary has perfected the politics of personal profit and theft. DJTrump 6/22/16)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Most insurgent groups vaccilate wildly between opposite extremes:

1. We’re being excluded. We want to be at the CORE.

2. Embracing us is suffocating. To thrive we need to be APART.

So you see a weird political schizophrenia.

“It’s injurious when whites know nothing about us. But when they wear the Sombreros that they enjoy IT’S LIKE THEY KICKED ME IN THE GUT, OH GAWD..!!!”

They can modulate between the two poles in seconds, and it’s not just Mexicans.

Probably blacks are the worst offenders..?


39 posted on 09/22/2016 6:26:49 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Dear Snowflake,

America is a melting pot of cultures. We’ll appropriate whatever the heck we want from any culture that lives here, and you can pound sand all the way back to your safe place.

Kindest regards,

bk


40 posted on 09/22/2016 6:27:15 PM PDT by bk1000 (A clear conscience is a sure sign of a poor memory.)
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