Calculus of Hypocrisy
By Mitch Berg
So at Hamline University – my bad neighbor in the Midway – here’s how the hierarchy of un-PC offenses breaks out.
Commit a gratuitously racist act?…
Hamline University has suspended six players from its football team for donning blackface and body paint to dress up as African tribesmen for an off-campus Halloween party, an incident that has sparked a discussion about racial sensitivity at the St. Paul liberal arts college.
…get a slap on the wrist:
The six have not been suspended from school but will not be able to play for the rest of the football season.
But exercise your first amendment right to free speech in defense of your second-amendment right to self-defense?
[Troy] Scheffler received a letter informing him he’d been placed on interim suspension. To be considered for readmittance, he’d have to pay for a psychological evaluation and undergo any treatment deemed necessary, then meet with the dean of students, who would ultimately decide whether Scheffler was fit to return to the university.
So, kids – the lesson is this; be a racist all you want, but for goodness’ sake, don’t talk about killing homocidal psychopaths – at least, not in self-defense.
I’m worried that Hamline’s administration isn’t stable enough to trust around kids.
November 5th, 2007 at 12:49 pm
“six players from its football team for donning blackface and body paint to dress up as African tribesmen for an off-campus Halloween party”
And at no time during the planning and executing of this master plan did not one of them think that maybe this isn’t a good idea? What kind of college they running up there? How to you get to college age and not know the history of blackface and show business? Even I, as a rabid evil wing-nut, have issues with that.
November 5th, 2007 at 2:44 pm
Will Hamline U now have an list of Authorized costumes that active students are allowed to wear regardless of where they are.
Flash
November 5th, 2007 at 2:46 pm
As long as no holsters are involved.
November 5th, 2007 at 3:20 pm
I think it’s just a reading problem by the Hamline administrators. My guess is that they just misread Scheffler’s letter, and instead of discussing the very reasonable notion that Hamline students should be able to kill “homicidal psychopaths in self-defense”, they thought he was advocating killing “homosexual polymaths who had given offense.”
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