The 5th of May is a day on which many Americans celebrate a phony holiday ginned up by the Maltese branch of a Mexican beer company.
When students at Dartmouth wanted to hold a “Phiesta” in conjunction with Cinco de Cerveza, they were called racist and shut down faster than a Condi Rice commencement speech.
Some Americans who held up American flags outside an American high school on Cinco do Cerveza were called racists by the kind of people who think Ed Schultz and Alan Grayson are great intellects.
But an MSDNC staffer wearing a sombrero and shaking maracas? Totally cool.
I thought the MSNBC staffer was making fun of gringos who think that’s how Mexicans party / how Cinco de Mayo is celebrated. Not true?
Have you not seen this? Pretty funny.
Tp’s link is to a rather tired Tumblr that criticizes Caucasians for wearing Mexican folk garb. To this little SJW, I say this: unless you have verifiable Irish heritage, you are forbidden from celebrating St. Patricks’ Day. If you do not have verifiable German heritage, you are forbidden from celebrating Oktoberfest, or listening to classical music by German composers. You are appropriating my cultural heritage, you cultural chauvinist. 😉
Seriously, if we aren’t allowed to explore and experience parts of other cultures (including food, music, and clothing), then what the heck is the point of multiculturalism? If America is a “melting-pot,” and cultural blending is good, then why the heck can’t I celebrate a foreign festival if that’s my desire?
“Appropriation” is just a fancy word that the kids who didn’t like to share toys in kindergarten or didn’t like carrots use to not have to share their clothes or try new foods.
And interestingly enough, we Americans are forbidden from wearing American-flag t-shirts in our own country because Mexicans living here illegally will riot.
Why is that, torrentprime? Why do liberals like yourself insist that Americans, who you loathe, have to follow the rules and respect all other cultures while Mexicans are allowed to riot and act like animals?
Wouldn’t life be a lot more simple if everyone stopped get outraged at everything? There are real problems that need to be solved, but instead the left is just focused on possible hurt feelings (which is something, by the way, that everyone experiences at some point). But I guess if that were to happen a lot of leftist outrage-mongers would be out of jobs, so we can’t have that.
So many people pretending that anyone was “forbidden” from wearing anything. Mocked, yes, but that’s part of our First Amendment freedoms. If GOP candidates can compare health care regulation to concentration camps and genocide, then tumblr users can make fun of white people in sombreros.
And ND30 is lying (again) that “we Americans are forbidden from wearing US flag shirts because illegals will riot.” (LOL) As any good conservative will tell you, students do surrender and at the very least agree to be constrained from some of the First Amendment rights on school grounds, and school officials have every right to reduce risks of incipient violence and threats to student safety. Some white kids that decided to taunt Mexicans with American flags are not being patriotic; they’re being troublemakers – what part of you disputes this? It’d be like wearing a Union Jack to an Irish pride celebration.
And, last, ND – on what (totally non-racist, of course) basis do you know that all Mexicans in a US school who might rise to the patriotic ‘Muricans’ bait are, in fact, illegal? Or that Mexican Americas act like animals – I’ve never once seen my (legal, US Citizen, as am I) aunt or cousins riot. Maybe they do it on weekends?
@ torrentprime: As has been pointed out, Cinco de Mayo is a marketing ploy to sell bear. If that is cultural pride for Mexicans, they are dumber than I thought.
Why don’t the leftists that want to ban bullying see these illegal alien kids as bullying citizens? Are Mexicans really that savage and out of control that American kids can’t wear red/white/blue cloths without them chimping out beyond what the school can handle? If the answer is yes send in the National Guard, or the better equipped BLM to protect citizens access to schools.
We really do need a country of our own.