Dennis Prager talks a lot about that: how the modern American university has become more of a seminary for Leftism; the purpose is not to educate but indoctrinate. He has a lot of stuff about how shocked parents are when they send their kids to college with normal American values and they come back Leftists.
Dude this triggered me so bad.... Someone get me a safe space. I imagine the standard Safe Space will do ...
Which is hilarious because no-one has stated how it was used that was offensive, apparently just wearing it is offensive if you happen to be have the wrong color of skin.
Especially when the people getting offended don't even come from the culture that's somehow being insulted. Such great white defenders of the poor brown people!
Except I actually live with plenty of mexicans. On my street if you ask what the white guy is doing, they know your talking about me. I know very well the attitude of my neighbors, and I talked to them about this this afternoon. They were shocked and amused that anybody would get offended over a hat. It's almost as if to them Mexican culture is more than a hat.
That's the whole objective here, to ensure that people of one culture NEVER come near the things of another culture. It's obvious.
They are getting offended on behalf of other people. It will come as a shock, but people who live outside the United States and don't live in the first world aren't automatically childlike and need the big first worlders to defend them.
My neighbors, who actually are from the culture being emulated, thought it was funny.
Given that this article come from an anti-college website, perhaps you should look into how the items were used that caused offense. Don't expect the anti-college website to present any information that might run contrary to their agenda.
Except the people that were offended apparently do come from that culture. Don't just assume that everyone is non-Hispanic white.
What question did you ask them, "Do you think wearing a Mexican-style sombrero is offensive?" How you ask the question matters. How many people did you ask? Anecdotal evidence does not match a survey. My Mexican friends and acquaintances certainly have a different perspective. Come back with a survey before you exclaim nothing is offensive.
No it's not, you can embrace culture without trivializing it and turning it into a joke. If you wanted to have a tequila party, why the need to incorporate Mexican sombreros? Is tequila somehow related to Mexican hats? Your attitude comes off as people should be thankful that someone would incorporate their culture into a party (even if it's inaccurate and ignorant).
Not true. You're assuming everyone is non-Hispanic white and there are no students of Mexican descent on the campus.
And my Mexican friend feels the opposite, because we all know anecdotes that support my beliefs are the truth. Let's go find all the black people who are not offended by the Confederate flag (despite >75% of African Americans considering a symbol of hate and oppression)!
Where has it been established that most Mexicans do not find the use of sombreros as parody, offensive or tasteless? We have people accusing others of being offended for a culture they are not part of, and in that same vein we have people claiming that those in a particular culture are not offended.What makes them the bottom line on what is offensive to Mexicans or Latinos/Latinas instead, given that plenty of people in those groups don't have a problem with parties like this.
Is it "large enough" though, or is it just a particularly whingy minority? No good will come of shackling society to the mores of its easiest offended. It is a weakness.
Mentally infantile because every culture does this to every other and the vast majority of people outside of the contemporary college hugbox don't give a toss about it.
But it somehow is your place to defend those that are taking offence over it, even though lots of Mexicans don't get offended by this stuff? How is he being paternalistic and you aren't, exactly? How does that work?
Given our previous discussions, I imagine it will just be "different" in some completely ad hoc way
I'll take the word of the students and associations expressing offense on the issue.
I don't think whethere it is offensive is in question, the community at Bowdoin seems to have spoken on that issue.
If it's not our place to tell them they should not be offended, then who is ANYBODY to tell the partiers they should consider their behavior offensive? Maybe the students practice a culture in which it is considered asinine to be offended over something so trivial? If that is the case, then how is the school admins, student government, or anyone of Hispanic cultural background to them that offense is justified?
A website that discusses college controversies is anti-college?
So they come from Mexico? You know places where that actually is the culture.
So it's as was already stated, much ado about nothing.At the party, several students wore sombreros, and the email invitation stated “we’re not saying it’s a fiesta, but we’re also not not saying that(we’re not saying that),” sparking backlash as the third prominent instance of ethnic stereotyping at Bowdoin in sixteen months.
That's amazing, ATTENTION YOU HAVE BEEN FOUND GUILTY OF THOUGHT CRIME! OFF TO THE GULAG!
I got about halfway through reading the article, then one of them asked to see it so I txted it to them all and let them read it for themselves. I asked what they thought of it.
You do realize that there is a bit more to mexican culture than a hat right?
It's the epitome of "first world problem syndrome".
I'm just assuming that most of them are so mentally infantile that this is a serious issue in their life.
