This is on what ‘high-level administrators’ concentrate?
Via Daily Caller:
A high-level administrator at the University of Denver issued a stern warning on Thursday advising all 12,000 students not to wear fake mustaches on Cinco de Mayo.
The school official, Liliana Rodriguez, instructed students in a campus-wide email that wearing fake mustaches on Cinco de Mayo is “dehumanizing” to Hispanic culture and its traditions, reports Campus Reform.
“As we celebrate, some of us may — unintentionally I would hope — choose activities that ‘appropriate’ specific cultures,” Rodriguez, whose title is vice chancellor of campus life and inclusive excellence, lectured.
“To be clear, cultural appropriation is when people adopt or use aspects of a culture when they are not members of that culture. This is a controversial thing,” Rodriguez also wrote.
In addition to fake mustaches, Rodriguez ranted, wearing sombreros on Cinco de Mayo is also patently “offensive.”
The University of Denver vice chancellor admitted that wearing fake mustaches and donning sombreros is not illegal and does not violate any policy at the $58,443-per-year private school.
“But it is disrespectful,” Rodriguez pontificated. It is an extension of racism. It is dehumanizing and insulting to many. It is not kind.”
Halloween costumes also really bother Rodriguez, she complained.
“As an ally, I also am offended by all the variety of ways that other cultures are appropriated throughout the year — for Halloween and other themed parties.”
Rodriguez noted that she that realized her whining about fake mustaches in a campus-wide email would elicit “groans” from the multitude of students who received it.