Semi OT-Ash Should Not Adopt This Tradition

[Knight Shift]

http://reason.com/blog/2016/09/21/offended-cornell-students-freak-out-afte
Offended Cornell Students Freak Out After Football Coach Tweets Sombrero Picture

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.

 

[CERU00]

Stupid yes.. offensive no.

 

[Knight Shift]

Guess Cornell was following Bowdoin's lead:

Bowdoin College is offering "safe spaces" for the victims of a recent tequila-themed birthday party in which "ethnic stereotyping" is alleged to have taken place, according to newstalk.com.


The tequila party hosts, at least one of whom is Colombian, will be forced to attend "an educational program facilitated by a faculty member," attend "Active Bystander training," (in case you're wondering what that is, here you go), and "write a letter or paper on these experiences." They have also been forced to move out of their dorms and have been banned from major social events, The Bowdoin Orient notes in an editorial.

Two of the attendees at the tequila party (who do not themselves seem to have been hat wearers or hosts, though the details are unclear) are representatives in the student government. On Saturday, they will face impeachment by their peers.


Bowdoin College Offers Safe Spaces, Counseling to Students Traumatized by Tiny Sombreros
Being upset is not the same thing as being in danger.
Robby Soave|Mar. 8, 2016 4:15 pm
Students have been provided with not one, but several opportunities to flee to the comfort of administratively-sanction safe spaces, according to National Review's Katherine Timpf:

In an e-mail to National Review Online, sophomore Richard Arms states that there have been “3 school-wide emails from deans and our president, and there have been several ‘safe-space’ opportunities on campus for students to discuss how they were hurt and offended” by the party.

 

[zappaa]

LOL
We've ruined America

 

[Knight Shift]

LOL
We've ruined America

Will MLB announcers be forced to abandon the Golden Sombrero award?

 

[FanuSanu52]

Whoever protested this needs to get the stick out of their @$$. And get a kick right in the tender b-hole immediately afterward.

 

[rsutton86]

Since when did wearing a Sombrero become offensive? I don't get it.

Jealous that I didn't have a tequila party when I was in college. Grain alcohol and kool-aid was the standard back then.

 

[RU5781]

SJW's at it again!!!

 

[RocktheRac]

One of the players on my softball team said his daughter came home with this taught at school. Sticks and stones may break my bones and names may also hurt me. So we know where this country is going.

 

[cRURah]

One of the players on my softball team said his daughter came home with this taught at school. Sticks and stones may break my bones and names may also hurt me. So we know where this country is going.

The PC ultra sicko liberals have complete control of the K-12. This crap is taught in kindergarten. You can't blame the students. This is how they are programmed in elementary school.

 

[NewJerseyGuy]

Taco Bell is in trouble.

 

[Scarlet_Scourge]

I need a safe space from safe spaces.

 

[AshCatchEm]

I hate every one of those kids

 

[delaynomore]

If they burned an American flag nobody would be offended.

 

[Knight Shift]

If they burned an American flag nobody would be offended.

Or dressed like the Pope, or wore Paddy caps, or lederhosen.

There are guidelines on how to celebrate Cinco de Mayo, which include not wearing a sombrero, because "It doesn't really matter whether you intend to stereotype people of Mexican descent, because it will be interpreted that way by people correctly pointing out that the sombrero is widely associated with stereotypical depictions of Mexicans.
https://mic.com/articles/142716/7-t...ral-appropriation-on-cinco-de-mayo#.9H2zIMF3r

And avoid costumes on Halloween:
https://www.buzzfeed.com/omarvilleg...-twice-about-w?utm_term=.feK1rGZNN#.gvby7wWAA

 

[MozRU]

nm

 

[PhilaPhans]

Guys, please refrain from posting full articles. Maybe an opening paragraph and a link or something. Don't want to get John and the site in trouble for anything.

 

[Upstream]

As someone of Irish heritage, I find the following image offensive:

 

[RUich]

Damn, you beat me to it Upstream. I also find it totally offensive as an Irishman. Fortunately, they don't have this guy holding a beer.
If we ever play them again, I think think there should be a safe place for us.

 

[RUich]

Maybe Mexico should stop making and selling them. How about not allowing them to cross the border? Oh, wait a minute, we are not allowed to stop anything crossing the border...my bad.

 

[Rokodesh]

I need a safe space from safe spaces.

aka normal spaces

 

[cRURah]

As someone of Sicilian decent, ban the Godfather and stop eating pizza.

 

[Ole Cabbagehead]

So do people utilize these "safe spaces?" Because if they don't (which I assume is the case) at what point do we just ignore these complaints? It seems to me the utilization of the safe space, not its creation, legitimizes the concern. So if we create the safe space, and no one uses it, can we be free to host sombrero parties in the future?

I assume that the SJW crowd would say that people may be hurt, but not want to draw further attention to themselves. But that begs the question, what the hell is a safe space, and why do we need them?

 

[RU_87]

Maybe they'll make everyone take that

Guess Cornell was following Bowdoin's lead:

The tequila party hosts, at least one of whom is Colombian, will be forced to attend "an educational program facilitated by a faculty member," attend "Active Bystander training," (in case you're wondering what that is, here you go), and "write a letter or paper on these experiences." They have also been forced to move out of their dorms and have been banned from major social events, The Bowdoin Orient notes in an editorial.

Hmm...reopen the Ally if all students attending take that Active Bystander Training.

 

[RUnTeX]

So do people utilize these "safe spaces?" Because if they don't (which I assume is the case) at what point do we just ignore these complaints? It seems to me the utilization of the safe space, not its creation, legitimizes the concern. So if we create the safe space, and no one uses it, can we be free to host sombrero parties in the future?

I assume that the SJW crowd would say that people may be hurt, but not want to draw further attention to themselves. But that begs the question, what the hell is a safe space, and why do we need them?

Maybe there is a real estate play here. As a developer, perhaps I should assess the market for safe spaces and go out and build them?