Due to the complaints of some hypersensitive ninnies, all-you-can-eat taco bars have been declared “racist.”
Every year across the nation, several Pi Beta Phi sorority chapters host all-you-can-eat “Pi Phiesta” taco bar fundraisers at their respective campuses to raise money for charity.
But that longstanding tradition, typically held around Cinco de Mayo, is in jeopardy.
In the past few weeks, pressure from a handful of Latino students at two high-profile universities who complained the events are offensive prompted dramatic changes to two “Pi Phiesta” fundraisers.
At Dartmouth College, the fundraiser was cancelled outright, and at Stanford University, the sorority girls scrapped their Mexican themed “Pi Phiesta” for a summery, ocean-themed one, although they still served tacos.
So, are pizza parties offensive to Italians? Do Sushi bars offend the Japanese? Does Oktoberfest offend Germans? Is anyone besides the British safe from the “microaggression” of having their cuisine celebrated and enjoyed?
Their little tradition is in jeopardy, only if they don’t resist & ignore LIBERALS. It’s not difficult to take a stand on small things.
My food is my identity and my people. How dare you co-opt and assimilate my culture. You’re a chump if you think civil rights is about moving beyond treating me as the Other; it’s all about treating me as Special and I won’t be special if you even think you can make Gouda.
Quiet, the real reason is not that it is racist. They just don’t want to draw too much attention to the fact that the Federal Government won’t enforce our immigration laws. How many other countries have so many illegal aliens living in their borders. We have been invaded and our legislators won’t do a damn thing about it.
I get the feeling that there is more too it, such as sorority sisters dressing up in stereotypical panchos and hats and wearing fake mustaches.
I think the students over-reacted and rather than ask that the fundraiser tone down the fake hispanic atmosphere, decided to force them to stop the fundraiser completely.
Fish and chips?
I lived in Europe for 3 years and traveled around as much as I could. When the affirmative action US gymnast who vaulted over more qualified Asian & white American gymnasts was making fun of the meat and cabbage stew people where eating at the Sochi Olympics, leftists joined in, and I realized KFC is as far as diversity & multiculturalism gets for the left.
The London Olympics tried to ban everyone inside the village but McDs from serving fries despite the national dish being fish and chips(UK for fries). Fags are cigarettes in the UK.
@sean- I saw your question from a couple days ago about spiked drinks. I meant stuff that knocks people out without their knowledge, as opposed to those who mix drugs/sex. I have stopped it from playing out a multiple times. One of the times it happened I went out to a new club with 2 friends, my blond twink friend was sober, alert and oriented, 10 min later he was unresponsive in a booth, shirt off, with a guy that looked older than my grandpa feeling him up. My other friend shot cell phone video,while I got security to come over, so it wouldn’t just be me decking grandpa moses. Staff said he was just drunk and nothing wrong, & grandpa was one of their best customers.
We carried him out, got him taken care of,& contacted the cops. I was the one banned from the club for bringing police attention to the club & their best customer, if anyone saw the video they would say grandpa moses was wrong with his hand down the pants of an unresponsive guy in his twenties. Oddly they didn’t ban the one that shot the video or the victim, but I was the only that the bouncers couldn’t quell. I am pretty sure those that need to drug guys for sex don’t use protection.
@ throbert & sean. When I first started going to the clubs I thought I would have to be a bottom sometimes as the price of having a boyfriend. It didn’t bother me to find out that it was almost entirely bottoms at the clubs, since if I was the only top at a party I could have the pick of the litter. Every city I have been in has been “bottom heavy”. I know I have gotten younger, hotter boyfriends than I could ever have gotten if not for supply/demand.
I don’t use grinder but when I still lived in a city I had 20yo guys, some that I didn’t meet before just show up at my place looking to get scored on, some even said they had a boyfriend that wouldn’t top. I checked IDs if I wasn’t sure of age, and always bought the family size boxes of condoms. This kept me from looking for a mature boyfriend, that I could have intelligent conversations with. If you like it there is no reason not to score on guys that want to be scored on.
When you break up with a guy they will tell all their friends how big your penis is, if you where a top/bottom, and what they didn’t like about you(belief in merit, self defense, western civilization, personal responsibility). The first 2 can get you more boyfriends regardless of what else they say.
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?
Tacos aren’t symbolic of Mexico[*]; they’re symbolic of vaginas. But as long as Dartmouth and Stanford don’t try to grab the Corndogs from my cold, dead hands, I’m not gonna go on a shooting spree.
[*] I mean, ground beef flavored with Old El Paso seasoning and served in a machine-formed crispy yellow-corn Dorito-style shell isn’t symbolic of Mexico; it’s symbolic of late-20th-century Texas. Shredded pork with cilantro and lime in a soft white-corn tortilla is a different story.
Heh!
Years ago, my ex-hubby and I went to a British-style fish-and-chips restaurant in Brooklyn. HE ordered “deep-fried Rock Salmon” with a side of “chips.” Little did he know, poor creature, that “Rock Salmon” is Britspeak for “dogfish” — i.e., a small species of shark whose flesh has the characteristic ammonia aftertaste of shark, and does not in any way resemble the flesh of actual salmon, which are separated from sharks by about 300 million years of evolution.
He didn’t finish his dinner, and I wasn’t inclined to ask for a doggy bag. (The “chips” were just okay — I’d put them on the level of Chik-Fil-A waffle fries, but vastly inferior to the shoestring potatoes fried “boardwalk style” in peanut oil that you can get at Five Guys here on the East Coast.)
[Now drooling and developing a boner at the thought of Five Guys’ french fries with malt vinegar and Old Bay seasoning…]
College Fix has a great piece by a young man with a German background writing about the appropriation of HIS culture for “Oktoberfest” travel over there for a read. Funny. But sad, because of the ridiculousness of things like… Tacos.
I am offended whenever anyone appropriates Scandinavian cuisine, because it’s disgusting.
The Latinos I’ve known get very touchy when people mock or even poke fun at Latin cultures or “appropriate” them. One guy threw a hysterical fit when somebody giggled at trilled Rs. I don’t know if that’s the rule or the exception for Latinos, but it’s just something I’ve noted.
Ban tacos. Period.
While in Rome, live as Romans and STFU with your whiny selves. You don’t likey the gringos celebrating with your cuisine, then haul butt back across the border.
So tired of the drama queens and the idiots who cower before them.
I would love to see caricatures of Mexicans used on Cinco de Mayo that are anywhere close to those of the Irish used on St. Patrick’s Day. Then they can complain about racism…when did we start celebrating Cinco de Mayo here, anyway?