Via Campus Reform:
Two students at California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo have come under fire for a Snapchat photo in which they are allegedly “engaging in cultural appropriation.”
The photo shows two girls dressed for a costume party. One girl has her hair braided, possibly in cornrow style, although that cannot be clearly determined from the photo. The photo’s caption reads “prettiest lil gangsta in all the land.”
A progressive student group called the “Cal Poly Student Collective” began a public smear campaign against the girls on Monday, making a Facebook post calling students’ attention to the photo.
“This week we received a photo depicting two Cal Poly students engaging in cultural appropriation,” the post reads.
It also originally alleged that “one of them is a sorority member of Alpha Phi sorority at Cal Poly,” but that assertion has since been removed, along with a reference to “the supposed training that every Greek organization is going through right now.”