Yale students are out in force today in protests against racism stemming from remarks the administration made about … Halloween costumes. Just so you are clear, that is not a typo. As we previously reported at Right Scoop, the kids are pretty fired up about Halloween costumes.
Hundreds of @Yale students rallying against racism on New Haven campus pic.twitter.com/6fv0zmC27T
— zellie (@zellieimani) November 9, 2015
Today they are out by the hundreds. You might think it is crazy to be this upset about Halloween costumes, but that is only because you don’t realize there was an email.
Tensions at Yale University hit a boiling point yesterday after an email about Halloween costumes created a week-long controversy on campus.
Students called for the resignation of Associate Master of Silliman College Erika Christakis after she responded to an email from the school’s Intercultural Affairs Council asking students to be thoughtful about the cultural implications of their Halloween costumes. According to The Washington Post, students are also calling for the resignation of her husband, Master of Silliman College, Nicholas Christakis, who defended her statement.
The idea that someone suggested that their Social Justice Warrior freakouts about costumes might be absurd has caused them to react totally reasonably by screaming in people’s faces and staging enormous pro-Halloween censorship protests. We shall overcome!
More from Twitter:
"We are loved" #yale pic.twitter.com/cU540VRhwx
— Emily Wier (@EmilyWier) November 9, 2015
More from Cross Campus #Yale march of resilience pic.twitter.com/C0bLEnz3I1
— Ryan Flynn (@RyanFlynnNHR) November 9, 2015
The entire thing has grown to epic proportions, as The Atlantic notes.
And this is a part of the Yale story I hadn't heard. Horrible if true. https://t.co/PU7mp0h8jZ pic.twitter.com/Wh3SqSqBaD
— Kevin W. Glass (@KevinWGlass) November 9, 2015
As you may imagine, and much like at Missouri, a huge part of the argument is about “Safe Spaces,” which is fast becoming the most absurd Orwellian euphemism for fascistic suppression of speech yet.
This is the American higher education system, folks. And soon the Democrats are going to make it “free” of charge, paid for by people with jobs who have better things to do than cry like infants about Halloween costumes they don’t like.