College Apologizes for Serving Mexican Food

[Brian4Liberty]

College Apologizes for Serving Mexican Food During Sci-Fi Event
by Aurelius • April 16, 2015

Stevenson College, part of the University of California, Santa Cruz, is apologizing to its students for serving Mexican food during “Intergalactic” night.

In a letter sent out to students, the college apologized for having “a Mexican food buffet,” while also featuring spaceships and aliens. The college received complaints saying the combination was racist because of the association between Mexicans and illegal immigrants.

“We would never want to make a connection between individuals of Latino heritage or undocumented students and “aliens” and I am so sorry that our College Night appeared to do exactly that,” wrote Carolyn Golz who had taken this picture of the activities before the complaints:
Intergalactic Night

After receiving complaints, Dr. Golz said that the event “demonstrated a cultural insensitivity on the part of the program planners and, though it was an unintentional mistake, I recognize that this incident caused harm within our community and negatively impacted students.”

As a result, Dr. Golz “will require cultural competence training for Programs staff, in addition to implementing mechanisms for future program planning that will ensure college programs are culturally sensitive and inclusive.”
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More: http://thepunditpress.com/2015/04/1...for-serving-mexican-food-during-sci-fi-event/

 

[tod evans]

More politically correct BS...

 

[specsaregood]

..

 

[orenbus]

Yea, this is stupid.

will require cultural competence training for Programs staff

Wow, even for people that are sensitive on the subject I don't get how they don't see this as being "a bridge too far". :/

Edit: I think this is a case of some loud mouth charlatans seeing an opportunity to advance themselves out of a nothing story and the school capitulating.

LOL just reading through some of the tweet replies:

Peter DeGiglio ‏@PeterDeGiglio 3h3 hours ago
@carolyngolz this has to be a joke right? Are they trying to put the Onion out of business?

Emilio Silvas ‏@esilvas 3h3 hours ago
@carolyngolz No one is offended in the real world. Mexican food is tasty no matter which planet serves it. Anyone offended is looking for it

Daringo ‏@daringo 2h2 hours ago
@carolyngolz DO NOT APOLOGIZE for the food menu. Mexican food is great and very common/popular in California. #growuppeople #wtf

And from Brian

B4Liberty ‏@USAB4L 15m15 minutes ago
@carolyngolz Serious question: Are you insane? This is pathetic. I want Mexican food every night!

 

[acptulsa]

So, are people saying Mexico is on another planet now?

And was it Mexican, or was it Tex-Mex? Does that mean Texas is on another planet too?

 

[presence]

SMDH

 

[Brian4Liberty]

And from Brian

LOL. Busted.

I have been contemplating a long winded rant for quite a while about the demise of Mexican food. There are areas and events in California where you can't find Mexican food anymore. People assume that new immigration is all Hispanic. Not true at all. Hispanic is being pushed out by Asian in California. And with that, we also have travesties of cuisine corruption. Asian-Mexican fusion. Yuck! Stir fry in a tortilla. And whoever introduced french fries to Mexican food needs to be taken out and shot. Gourmet tacos filled with fries and fried cheese? Give me a break!

 

[morfeeis]

I wish this country would just punch itself in the face a few times.

this just may be the most useful sentence ever written in the history of the internet, it just about sums up my feelings on the state of our republic.

 

[Philhelm]

". . . culturally sensitive and inclusive."

So fucking weak.

 

[juleswin]

I am sure everyone was like "WTF" after reading the headline but then you read the meat of the article and realize they served it on a themed night to somehow connect Mexicans with being aliens

I bet you $1 m bucks that they will never have served Jewish food on "fake crooked nose" day or Redhead food (I know there's nothing like redhead food) on "soul less Sunday". I know nobody ever cares about being PC around here but it was a stupid idea PC or not.

 

[Slave Mentality]

I am sure everyone was like "WTF" after reading the headline but then you read the meat of the article and realize they served it on a themed night to somehow connect Mexicans with being aliens

I bet you $1 m bucks that they will never have served Jewish food on "fake crooked nose" day or Redhead food (I know there's nothing like redhead food) on "soul less Sunday". I know nobody ever cares about being PC around here but it was a stupid idea PC or not.

Not a logical comparison at all. Lighten up Francis.

 

[dannno]

I am sure everyone was like "WTF" after reading the headline but then you read the meat of the article and realize they served it on a themed night to somehow connect Mexicans with being aliens

I bet you $1 m bucks that they will never have served Jewish food on "fake crooked nose" day or Redhead food (I know there's nothing like redhead food) on "soul less Sunday". I know nobody ever cares about being PC around here but it was a stupid idea PC or not.

Sorry, I think you're wrong. Mexican food is very common and a lot of people like it. Pretty sure they planned the theme for the movies and somebody came up with an idea for the dinner menu and didn't give it a second thought.

 

[ThePaleoLibertarian]

My best friend went to UCSC, so I spent a fair amount of time there. Santa Cruz is a fun town, but this doesn't surprise me at all. The cultural Marxism in the UC system runs deep.

 

[Brian4Liberty]

I am sure everyone was like "WTF" after reading the headline but then you read the meat of the article and realize they served it on a themed night to somehow connect Mexicans with being aliens.

 

[juleswin]

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WTF as in WTF is wrong with serving Mexican food?

Also, I don't mean aliens as in extraterrestrial, I meant aliens as in a play on words with illegal aliens. But like Danno said, it could have been a coincidence and the dinner and the event organizers did not arrange to prepare Mexican food on that day.

 

[Zippyjuan]

So what type of food should one serve at a Sci Fi event? Given that it was college students (who don't usually have lots of money) choices were probably Mexican or pizza (noting nothing Mexican besides food included in the theme). Whole thing is rediculous and over-blown. No matter what you do these days, somebody will get pissed off.

 

[juleswin]

So what type of food should one serve at a Sci Fi event? Given that it was college students (who don't usually have lots of money) choices were probably Mexican or pizza (noting nothing Mexican besides food included in the theme). Whole thing is rediculous and over-blown. No matter what you do these days, somebody will get pissed off.

You know, when you think about it, a Pizza sorta looks like a flying saucer and the pepperoni on pizza sorta looks like the asteroid craters on moon. Add to the fact that college students love pizza should have made pizza the overwhelming favorite. Ofc, there is a possibility that Mexican food has been scheduled on that day and the themed night had no connection to the choice of the menu

 

[orenbus]

I hate you guys for talking about mexican food, made me so hungry I just came back from Chipotle. :/

 

[NorthCarolinaLiberty]

Whole thing is rediculous and over-blown.

Are you the new guy? I don't recall Zip ever misspelling that word. It's a common spelling error, but maybe just a long day of posting, huh? I do it with they're and their sometimes. No big deal.

Vaccines = Nazi Germany is pretty ridiculous.

 

[Brian4Liberty]

WTF as in WTF is wrong with serving Mexican food?

Also, I don't mean aliens as in extraterrestrial, I meant aliens as in a play on words with illegal aliens. But like Danno said, it could have been a coincidence and the dinner and the event organizers did not arrange to prepare Mexican food on that day.

Are you trying to back-track now? You just posted that you agreed with this paranoid, political correct nonsense. "Stupid idea"?

I am sure everyone was like "WTF" after reading the headline but then you read the meat of the article and realize they served it on a themed night to somehow connect Mexicans with being aliens

I bet you $1 m bucks that they will never have served Jewish food on "fake crooked nose" day or Redhead food (I know there's nothing like redhead food) on "soul less Sunday". I know nobody ever cares about being PC around here but it was a stupid idea PC or not.

Only a brainwashed politically correct drone would make a connection between Mexican food and "aliens", and then get outraged about it. This is pure paranoia.