{"id":11297,"date":"2016-03-07T02:15:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-07T09:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=11297"},"modified":"2016-03-07T02:15:00","modified_gmt":"2016-03-07T09:15:00","slug":"the-ultimate-tool-of-white-supremacy-and-colonialism-mini-sombreros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2016\/03\/07\/the-ultimate-tool-of-white-supremacy-and-colonialism-mini-sombreros\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ultimate Tool of White Supremacy and Colonialism? Mini-Sombreros"},"content":{"rendered":"

     The Bowdoin College’s student government will purge themselves of eeevil oppressors for the sin<\/a> of… attending a party where some people wore novelty mini-sombreros<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n

“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\u2019re not saying it’s a fiesta, but we’re also not not saying that :).’ The invitation \u2014 sent by a student of Colombian descent, which may or may not be relevant here \u2014 advertised games, music, cups and ‘other things that are conducive to a fun night.’<\/p>\n

“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.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

     Other party goers have already been punished, including being kicked out of their dorm.<\/p>\n

\n

“College administrators sent multiple schoolwide emails notifying the students about an ‘investigation’ into a possible ‘act of ethnic stereotyping.’<\/p>\n

“Partygoers ultimately were reprimanded or placed on ‘social probation,’ and the hosts have been kicked out of their dorm, according to friends. (None of the disciplined students whom I contacted wanted to speak on the record; Bowdoin President Clayton Rose declined an interview and would not answer a general question about what kinds of disciplinary options are considered when students commit an ‘act of bias.’)”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

     Students are being punished for #WrongThink.\u00a0 They expressed unapproved views and in effect being punished for not being correct thinking Social Justice Warriors who maintain ideological purity at all times… especially when mini-sombreros are involved.<\/p>\n

     Pro-tip to the Bowdoin students who need a “safe space” to protect them from the terror of mini-sombreros: If you are a student at Bowdoin and have the luxery of whining about mini-sombreros, you are not oppressed; in fact, you are a privileged little elitist [EXPLITIVE DELETED].<\/p>\n

     The hypocrisy, though, is what is truly mind-boggling.\u00a0 The cafeteria held a Mexican night just a week later.\u00a0 The school itself sponsored a “Cold War” event that made light of Soviet tyranny and of Slavic people.\u00a0 But perhaps the pinnacle of hypocrisy<\/a> was that the school held an event with… sombreros AND other props:<\/p>\n

\n

“[At last year’s school reunion] the\u00a0school\u00a0provided a photo booth replete\u00a0various hats, mustaches and other props conducive to taking silly celebratory photos.<\/p>\n

“Guess what was among those items: sombreros!<\/p>\n

“Not only did Bowdoin provide sombreros, but the school actually posted, on Facebook<\/a>, pictures\u00a0of people donning them for the photo booth.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

     This isn’t justice, this is about wielding arbitrary and capricious power over others in the name of “Social Justice”.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

     The Bowdoin College’s student government will purge themselves of eeevil oppressors for the sin of… attending a party where some people wore novelty mini-sombreros. “Two weeks ago, some students threw a birthday party for a friend. The email invitation read: … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11301,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,17],"tags":[70,25,48],"class_list":["post-11297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-progressives","tag-facepalm","tag-higher-ed","tag-social-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11297"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11322,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11297\/revisions\/11322"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}