Again, the Left has no ability to let people have a bit of fun; in this case, another manifestation of Cultural Marxism (sub-type “Cultural Appropriation”) has taken over the place where most of us would think would be a melting pot of ideas and cultures.
Oh, sorry, “melting post” is now a micro-aggression.
You now wish for me to appease you by groveling and apologizing profusely? Yeah, I’ve watched that sideshow before – it doesn’t work and more of us Normals need to start barking back at these feral pups with a hearty “up yours” and laugh at them. Then start making them live up to their own Book of Rules and demand that they must tolerate OUR culture. But I digress (emphasis mine, reformatted):
UNH hopes Unity Day replaces Cinco de Mayo
Once again, try “rebranding” in order to brush the dust of the ridiculous under the rug. So the Administration wants a two-fer: for the controversy to go away and appease the militant PC police that just can’t live others be because of an overactive sense of self-righteousness and hair-trigger sense of outrage that somebody is having some fun – and they take it personally.
The University of New Hampshire is hoping to turn the last Saturday before classes end in the spring into a new campus tradition — Unity Day. Dean of Students John T. Kirkpatrick announced in an email last week that students, staff, faculty and town leaders are working together to “craft a day and a way for all of us to serve our community this year.” This year, Unity Day’s inaugural celebration will fall on Cinco de Mayo, a day of controversy at UNH that is often referred to on campus as “Cinco de Drinko.”
And what was the great huge problem? Hats and outerwear:
Last year on May 5, videos emerged showing white students wearing serapes and sombreros at Cinco de Mayo — celebrations that angered students of color and set off a series of racist incidents. Kirkpatrick and others at UNH say they are hopeful Unity Day will bring the campus together as a community. “Last year Cinco de Mayo created a lot of distress from the LatinX community. So many people were bothered by it,” said Kirkpatrick. The term LatinX is used as a gender neutral term referring to members of the Latin community.
While my memory is a bit hazy on the details, it seems that those of a given background that others not of the same kind “culturally appropriated” something or other. These aggrieved snowflakes even wanted Government to ban Mexican attire from the local shops and called the poor folks just trying to support their families racist. Tolerance, baby, tolerance.
Look, it’s supposed to be a PARTY; schools ended, those who wanted to have a bit of joviality and camaraderie at parties were lambasted simply because. Well, because, just because. You see, if I don’t agree with you, you’re rascist. You’d better not let me see you wearing green on Saint Pat’s day or wearing a Viking helmet, or I’ll explode all over your butts.
Er, actually not – I could care less. Knock yerselves out. Drink one for me because being the son of an Irish drunk, I don’t.
After all, America IS the melting pot of the world – get over yourselves and stop being the poops at the party. Nobody like an angry sober person who is angry over not that much. But then again, they love making mountains over a grain of sand – that’s what victimology is all about and UNH Dean of Students John T. Kirkpatrick either doesn’t have the stones to push back on this whole silliness (it makes goldfish swallowing absolutely high-brow) and try to get them to understand that the outside world doesn’t work that way unless you live in Hollywood, DC, or a Democrat decades-run urban area. Besides, I love both Mexican and Chinese food – you wanna try to keep this son of the Celts and Vikings from sitting down to eat a taco with chopsticks?
Besides, this blue eyed, middle aged, Conservative, Christian is about to have Mexican for suppah. Go ahead and act like you’re in a Zumba class jumping all up and down in rage at the thought of that.
“We want students to have a chance to celebrate as the year winds down, but we also wanted to find a way to do something good,” Kirkpatrick said. According to Kirkpatrick, Unity Day will consist of a Blue/White Spring UNH Football game at 11 a.m. at the stadium, the Half Naked Whole Mile run beginning at 11:30 a.m. to benefit the Echo Thrift Shop, service activities starting at 1 p.m., and a cookout hosted by student athletes at 4 p.m.
“Half Naked” – er, would that be the top half, or the bottom half, the left side, or the right side? And is more of the new moralizing from the New Left that disdains traditional mores? Isn’t that objectifying young bodies of both sexes? How could that be doing “something good” if you are trapping others in oogling the runners bouncing up and down and sideways? Please, let’s not turn this into yet another protest of “Free the Nipple” feminists (or other things as well).
The idea of Unity Day arose from what Kirkpatrick calls a “loose confederation of ideas,” from various organizations on campus. Groups all pitched in to help create what the administration hopes becomes a new tradition. The groups contributing included: different fraternities and sororities; the Black Student Union; MOSAICO and UNH’s Latino/Latina organization, according to Kirkpatrick.
Hey, isn’t that worldview discrimination? I didn’t see a single Conservative group listed (e.g., Young Republicans, AFP, AYF, Turning Point, et al). DISCRIMINATION!!!!!!
“We hope it turns into something synonymous with UNH. Like touching the nose on the wildcat in front of the Whittemore Center,” said Kirkpatrick “This is a day for UNH and we want people to celebrate being here.”
Wait, wait! You can’t do that – how can a statue give consensual approval to an unwanted touching???? What, fine for thee but for a statue? After all, the Left is giving rivers the same rights of personhood as you and I. Statue Discrimination!!!!
And of course, what story about campuses would be complete without a ……wait for it…..it’s coming…..almost there….
Kirkpatrick is a champion of the first amendment right to freedom of speech and isn’t calling for bans on self-expression. That said, he’d like to see the cultural appropriation associated with past Cinco celebrations go. It’s a free country as long as you’re not threatening someone, Kirpatrick said, but just because you can do something doesn’t mean you should.
….BUT! There it is, plain as the pimple on a teenager’s nose (is that sorta reverse ageism, taking advantage of your opponent’s….
Sorry, he’s all in on the “Cultural Appropriation” nonsense; that phrase, in and of itself, is a quick chill of “freedom of expression” and yes, a sombrero is a speech stating solidarity with bright colors or something, sorta, maybe. So Kirpatrick is wagging his satorial finger at us all: you can have free speech as long as I agree and approve of it. And of course, he doesn’t:
There won’t be any legal repercussions for students wearing sombreros, serapes, ponchos, and the like, however, Kirkpatrick wants students to understand the consequences of their actions. “Why would you willingly do something that you know hurts someone else?” he asked. “The key is education,” said Kirkpatrick. “We can’t say ‘no sombreros,’ but we can tell them why it’s bad.”
Yeah, show me some nanny ordinance that outlaws some mode of dressage and I’ll show you a slut walk. So, nothing that offends you, eh Dean? What about what offends we Normals? Don’t our views count for anything?
And you are all good about unleashing these self-sanctified misfits on the rest of us? You act like you are en loco parentis over the lives of all these kids – methinks its just the middle word of that phrase. How many knee pads do you wear out in a year instead of actually acting like one and telling them “NO, that’s not how it works; that’s not how it works at all!”.
(H/T: Concord Monitor)
