Brickbat: It Looks Like a Taco

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Officials at Stevenson College—which is part of the University of California, Santa Cruz—have apologized after Mexican food was served during a party with a science fiction theme. They received complaints that the menu linked Hispanic students with aliens. In addition, Carolyn Golz, student life administrator, says all students who wish to put together future on-campus programs will be required to undergo "cultural competence" training.

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[d3x / dt3]

"Student life administrator"

Your tuition dollars at work.

[Swiss Servator, faul B??gg!]

"Say, why has tuition risen so much the past few years? It is a total mystery!"

[Spartacus]

That would be the Director of Student Life, who has an assistant director, someone to oversee intramurals, another one to advise student government, and one more for campus programming. Each one has a secretary, of course.

[Cyto]

Congratulations Charles, you have found the mountain top! In a world replete with stupid, this brickbat brings us a bouquet of stupid! Everyone in the story doused themselves in the queso of PC idiocy.

Except the reporter worked a little too hard and managed to find Geraldo Rivera saying that this might be a bit of a stretch. Weak, but at least his voice was reasonable. Everyone else provided loving proof that peak derp will never be reached.

[The Hyperbole]

"This seems a bit of a stretch," said Geraldo Rivera ...and now they are going to get much more inferior food at their next gala for fear of offending."

How is this admittedly moronic and overblown reaction going to cause a reduction in food quality?

"Damn it, we can't serve fried chicken on MLK day, I guess we'll just have to serve truck stop hot dogs and watered down chili sauce."

[Swiss Servator, faul B??gg!]

The fear that anything "ethnic" would be some sort of grave insult, and that would lead to 7-11 roller dogs and bottled water being the only "safe" choices?

[sarcasmic]

That would be a racist attack on Pakistanis. Just ask Joe Biden.

[UnCivilServant]

We would, but he's got a shotgun, and secret service drunkards.

[Swiss Servator, faul B??gg!]

+1 Indian accent?

[db]

Well you certainly can't serve good "privileged" food, because it would trigger poor students to remember all their dinners as children.

[Steve G]

So, what if you served food that was formerly the throwaway, lower privileged food like chicken wings, crawfish, or collard greens, but is now risen to gourmet in some circles? What about French food that primarily developed to cover the taste of rotten meat? so confused...

[CampingInYourPark]

"so confused..."

the university is requiring cultural competence training for all students interested in putting together on-campus programs

Exactly why cultural competence training is needed, comrade!

[Reverend Draco]

Maybe they could get "wastED" to cater these shindigs.

Or would that trigger fears of homelessness?

[Gordilocks]

Where's the bloody fish and chips?

[invisible furry hand]

Where's PETA to protest the objectification of the cat in the sombrero?

[UnCivilServant]

They're too busy murdering puppies.

[Charles Easterly]

UnCivil,

I thank you for the opportunity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sol14ZRPPrs

[N]

Tacos are American food now, that's how the evolution of culture works. Would there have been the same fuss over pizza? Here's to hoping the next big one finally turns California into an island.

[Scarecrow Repair]

It was the space alien theme combined with Mexican food, implying Mexicans are all illegal aliens.

Pizza would have been macro-agressing if combined with a criminal theme.

[UnCivilServant]

Look, just because New York produces both crooks and Pizza...

[Bones]

At least NY makes the right kind of pizza...

[Reverend Draco]

I, too, am waiting for the day when "the big one" causes everything East of the San Andreas Fault to drop into the Atlantic. . .

[Fist of Etiquette]

The real complaint is that there aren't enough Mexican astronauts. I assume. I have no way of knowing.

[UnCivilServant]

Look, the Mexican Space Agency folded after it got that whale to the moon. That's why there are so few Mexican Astronauts.

[PM]

Dammit! Should have refreshed the page...

[Pope Jimbo]

Mexican Aeronautics and Space Agency (MASA) has a hard time recruiting any minorities.

Everything goes great until they start training on using the comm equipment to talk from space to HQ.

Trainer: Try to keep your answers to short yes or nos. And remember to acknowledge that you are talking to HQ.

Recruit: So you want me to respond to HQ with either "Yes Masa or No Masa"?

Trainer: "Right away Masa" is also acceptable.

Recruit: Fuck you! I'm suing.

[pogi]

I prefer the common usage of masa as a precursor to gorditas.

[PM]

I'll just leave this here

[Heroic Mulatto]

You laugh, but Mexicans have done more to inspire the next generation of aerospace engineers than NASA has in recent history.

[Charles Easterly]

Please translate, as I only speak Merican.

[UnCivilServant]

Their space agency has been taken over by Lieutenant General Chimp.

[Heroic Mulatto]

"Kerbal Space Program" is English.

[UnCivilServant]

"English" and "Merican" are not the same language.

[Heroic Mulatto]

Well, I don't know what sea snails speak.

[Charles Easterly]

For reasons unknown, HM, "Kerbal" immediately reminded me of "Herbalz In Your Mouth" by 3rd Bass:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-snZdKxGJ8Q

[Old Man With Candy]

+1 Bill Dana.

[Robert]

D'oh! This is what I get for coming along to threads so many hrs. late & trying to catch up quickly.

All that schtick was a very long setup to the punch line on Get Smart!: "Sorry, buddy, I don't speak Spanish."

"`Car Wash'. I wonder what that means in Spanish."

[Robert]

& if you remember that bit, which relied on the confluence of the Bill Dana show & Mission Impossible, you'll be a leg up on understanding Lost.

[Robert]

What you mean, not enough Mexican astronauts? Wasn't Jose Jimenez among the 1st chosen?

[Rufus J. Firefly]

Mexican food that links them to aliens.

WHY DIDN'T I THINK OF THAT?

[Roger the Shrubber]

Any non-Mexican eating from a taco bar in an American college cafeteria is a misappropriation of Mexican culture.

[CampingInYourPark]

Now, as a result of this "poor decision," the university is requiring cultural competence training for all students interested in putting together on-campus programs as well as other safe guards that "will ensure college programs are culturally sensitive and inclusive."

Seems colleges are bound a determined to challenge the theory of unattainable Peak Derp

[Ivan Pike]

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Albert Einstein

[SusanM]

My god, what would have happened if they offered Black Gumbo?

[UnCivilServant]

My wiki crawl failed to find 'Black Gumbo', but I did find this interesting tidbit.

The gumbo-limbo is comically referred to as the Tourist Tree because the tree's bark is red and peeling, like the skin of sunburnt tourists

I know it's irrelevent, but I laughed.

[SusanM]

I was going for Blackbean gumbo, but it wasn't worth correcting with another post.

[straffinrun]

Way back when I was in University, I did work study as an upholsterer for the dorm system. One day I sewed a little ginger bread man for fun and dangled him by a thread over the sewing machine for the next guy to see. Unfortunately, the next guy to use the machine was an exchange student from Cameroon. This honest mistake made today probably would get a kid expelled.

[UnCivilServant]

So did the next guy think you did a good job?

[straffinrun]

Made it out of naugahyde. Could've made a limerick with that given he was quite "Cameroon". I apologize profusely, but he wouldn't accept it.

[SusanM]

Did he take it as a lynching joke or a voodoo curse?

[CampingInYourPark]

I did work study as an upholsterer for the dorm system. One day I sewed a little ginger bread man for fun and dangled him by a thread over the sewing machine for the next guy to see

Work study, indeed

[straffinrun]

Actually got fired for using an empty dorm room. While on the clock. With a bong.

[Rufus J. Firefly]

Yeah I hear Cameroonians really hate ginger bread.

[Gordilocks]

But do they hate coconuts?

[Libertarian]

Is it acceptable to serve ginger bread on St Patricks day?

[wadair]

We're becoming a nation of whining, over-sensitive crybabies.

[Dark Lord of the Cis]

Becoming?

[wadair]

OK: increasingly.

How's that?

[wadair]

How about: have become?

[wadair]

OK. You forced my hand.

We're becoming a nation of whining, over-sensitive crybabies.

[pogi]

I am not! You take that back! *narrows tearful gaze*

[Rich]

"they are going to get much more inferior food at their next gala for fear of offending."

"Inferior food"?! And offend *white trash*?!

[UnCivilServant]

There goes catering by the roadkill cafe.

[Rich]

"cultural competence" training

as well as other safe guards

Emphasis added. Oh, I do hope they're finally implementing *shock collars*!

[UnCivilServant]

Only if the shock collars are set to go off when the wearer "gets offended".

[Rich]

Excellent.

[Charles Easterly]

Change you can believe in.

[Rich]

"For [the sci-fi] event, students landed on Mexican food because they weren't sure what food would work with the intergalactic theme."

Sheesh, how about Tang and freeze-dried ice cream?

[Notorious G.K.C.]

Why not Serve Man?

[UnCivilServant]

That's a no-win situation. Either you're insensitive to Caribbean and Pasific Islander students, or it's PATRIARCHY, depending upon the definition os 'serve' used.

[Notorious G.K.C.]

"Oh, and let us pre-emptively apologize for the whiskey, cabbage and baked potato spread at the St. Patrick's Day dinner."

[Notorious G.K.C.]

"And it was probably a little too authentic when we went around sprinkling fungus on the potatoes in the middle of the meal."

[Rich]

"At least you've eliminated the Lucky Charms. The sensitivity training is starting to work!"

*** increases tuition ***

[Reverend Draco]

I miss the Frito Bandito. . .

[A Horse Called Trigger]

I have a vision of long tables loaded with Jello salads.

That my friends is our future.

Embrace it.

[UnCivilServant]

I'm triggered by jello salads.

[Old Man With Candy]

That's aggression against vegetarians.

[UnCivilServant]

Especially since Gelatin is an animal by-product.

[Doctor Whom]

Mormonphobe!

[Heroic Mulatto]

They received complaints

From whom? Officious busybodies should be able to hide within the anonymity of piss-poor reporting. I'm pretty sure the complainants are as mentally unhinged as the smelly, ranting hobo on the city bus... and I'm getting pretty sick of the Hobo's Veto.

[Heroic Mulatto]

*shouldn't

[Rich]

"OK, then, for the British-themed dinner it's Bangers and Spotted Dick!"

[UnCivilServant]

Makes me wish the breakfast buffet at the Nottingham Belfry had put labels on the food trays. I would have taken pictures of the funny (to Americans) foods.

[GamerFromJump]

We have apparently reached the Poe Singularity, an area of ludicrousness so dense no parody can escape. I thought it was a myth.

[Rich]

"We can't serve *nothing*! That would offend anorexics!"

[Libertarian]

"..all students who wish to put together future on-campus programs will be required to undergo "cultural competence" training."

One would hope that a rounded, 4-year higher education experience might already include sufficient knowledge pertaining to "cultural competence." It's almost as if "cultural competence" is a euphemism for "indoctrination."

[wadair]

It's almost as if "cultural competence" is a euphemism for "indoctrination."

I think it's more a How-To for walking on cultural egg shells.

[UnCivilServant]

Oh, I know, I know, you hit them with a cast iron frying pan while yelling incoherently about drugs!

[Stormy Dragon]

It's almost like some weird party game where you select two random objects, and then the player with the best explanation of how those two objects are racist wins the round.

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