White Girls Wearing This Item Told They Support Slavery, It's Now Banned

Claims of racism have just reached a new low. Nearly everything today gets the racist label, including an innocuous item worn by American citizens during the time of slavery in the south, even if said citizens didn't own slaves or participate in anything racist. Essentially, it's guilty by the items associated with a racist era, even now in 2015.According to Campus Reform , a new policy has been put into place on the apparently overly sensitive campus at the University of Georgia. It prohibits students from wearing hoop skirts that have become popular among sorority girls participating in an annual Greek event, which certain clubs participate in. The historical fashion that women wore frequently in the south during pre-Civil War times, allegedly supports slavery, since it coincides with an era when African-Americans were mistreated and represents the deplorable practice for that reason alone, the school's Panhellenic Council and Interfraternity Council announced in their notification to students. The council informed students by letter of the decision that hoop skirts will not be allowed "in the context of some events," because it's offensive to the African-American student body and staff. But they were also warned to brace themselves for further fashion restrictions that could soon be banned for the same reason, as they are currently analyzing other popular outfits for signs of potential insensitivity and "to ensure the appropriateness for our organizations." Their argument is dubious at best to make a connection between a hoop skirt and support of slavery. UGA College Republicans Vice Chairman Brennan Mancil, who opposes the ban, pointed out that the garment in question "is a historical expression, not a political statement," adding that such skirts have been around for almost half a millennium, and there is no viable reason to attach a racial stigma to an item that isn't deserved of that. "If the logic for banning hoop skirts extended to other social practices, then we ought to ban mint juleps and chewing tobacco, both of which also became popular during the Antebellum," Mancil said. If this ban is allowed, what is to stop any other item, action, hairstyle, or word from being deemed offensive and subsequently prohibited just because someone is able to conjure up a way it's somehow associated with slavery simply because it's from the same era? By the council's logic and those who support this move, drinking water could be racist, since slaves were forced to pump the well. There is nothing right or okay about real racism today, along with the way the black community was treated in the past. But should Caucasians in 2015 be punished for behavior they don't condone and would never have participated in, if they were present at that time? It's no different than someone today being called a thief for a burglary their great grandfather's second cousin, five times removed, committed in the 1800's. Reaching for racist claims by conjuring up anything that could possible be so, even by the furthest stretch of the imagination, distracts from what's real and devalues a valid argument when one actually arises. Hoop skirts are not one. http://ift.tt/1P4LjFt



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