Two students at the University of Wisconsin–Whitewater were publicly, officially branded as “racist” in a campus-wide post because the school’s chancellor mistook their exfoliation masks for blackface.
The controversy all started when the students posted a Snapchat photo of themselves wearing face masks in the dorms. Seeing as skincare is widely accepted as an uncontroversial activity, they probably thought nothing of it — but Chancellor Beverly Kopper rushed to interpret it as blackface and immediately posted a statement condemning them as racist on the school’s official website.
”Last night a disturbing racist post that was made to social media was brought to my attention,” Kopper wrote in a statement on the school’s official website last week.
“This post was hurtful and destructive to our campus community,” Kopper’s post continued. While social media can certainly bring about positive change, it can also be a place that deeply hurts and harms others.”
After Idiot Beverly Kopper was called out for her stupidity, she arrogantly replied that the fault wasn’t *hers* for being too stupid to recognize the difference between skin care and racism, but the student’s fault for not realizing she was too stupid to know the difference between skin care and racism.
In an interview about the incident for local news source Channel 300, Kopper criticized the students for not thinking about “the implications and the impact that it would have” if they took a picture of themselves wearing certain kinds of skin-care products.
How much do you wanna bet she voted for Obama twice?
And even though there was nothing racist about the pics, the students “voluntarily” (yeah, sure, right) groveled before their aggrieved and offended social masters.
Some of the students still took issue with the facial picture and while no disciplinary action was taken, the students involved voluntarily met with the Black Student Union and record an apology.
Never. Ever. Apologize for the stupidity of someone else.
^amen to that
There were trigger words in that post. Among them “hurtful” and “community”. Those words, among others, trigger in me a sense of revulsion and disgust.
Note to any high-school or college students reading this: the first post is a commandment – apologizing for someone else’s stupidity never works out well for you.
Also, learn well this phrase: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uN3c64j2DPE&feature=youtu.be&t=6m55s
What about the no-wire-hangers scene in Mommie Dearest where Faye Dunaway as Joan Crawford has her face covered in cold cream?
“. . . the students involved voluntarily met with the Black Student Union and record an apology.”
JFC, I am continually amazed that as a society we’ve forgotten the First Rule of Bullying: “If you play by my rules, my power increases.’ Didn’t we fight a war (or several) against this? Academia has gone completely off the rails, and needs a forcible course correction, preferably with direct legal action.
It takes courage for conservatives to attend many of the colleges and universities these days. Some might think that their willingness to defend conservative principles is mental masochism. It is possible that some will cave in to to pressure and bullying from the their leftist classmates. Since it is the parents who usually foots the bills, being conservative with children entering middle school, should contact conservatives schools to give them an alternative. There are sevefal good ones like, Patrick Henry College, Purceyville, VA, Ohio Christian University, Grove City, OH,College of the Ozarks, Point Lookout, MO, Colorado Christian University, Lakewood, CO, Regent University, VA Beach, VA, and the one I support for my granddaughters future education Hillsdale College, Hillsdale MI. I dedicate my time to teach them English, augmenting their classroom study of the language in El Salvador, so that they will speak perfect English to obtain a student visa.
I’m surprised no one has commented on the hand gesture that the girl on the right side of the photo is displaying. While not an “intrinsically black gesture” (I doubt there is such a thing!), it’s one that has been popularized by black hiphop/rap artists. Seeing that gesture in combination with the dark-colored seaweed puree (or whatever that glop is) does produce a slightly different reaction than if the photo had been cropped at shoulder level.
Since such gang-signs are so faddish among Youngsters of all colors, I don’t think it’s fair to assume that the gesture was intentional provocation (if the girls had gone to the trouble of posing with banjos and watermelons, that’d be different!) — but I suppose I can see why the photo might rub some people the wrong way.