{"id":89451,"date":"2013-11-06T18:46:26","date_gmt":"2013-11-06T17:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/backwards-society-sombrero-halloween-costume-branded-offensive-while-911-attack-costume-wins-award\/"},"modified":"2013-11-06T20:51:29","modified_gmt":"2013-11-06T19:51:29","slug":"backwards-society-sombrero-halloween-costume-branded-offensive-while-911-attack-costume-wins-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/backwards-society-sombrero-halloween-costume-branded-offensive-while-911-attack-costume-wins-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Backwards Society: Sombrero Halloween Costume Branded Offensive While 9\/11 Attack Costume Wins Award"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dressing as Mexicans and Native Americans is racist while depicting mass killing and destruction will win you first prize<\/strong><\/p>\n

Steve Watson<\/strong><\/p>\n

Two stories today regarding Halloween fancy dress costumes sum up the state of degradation our society is collapsing into.<\/p>\n

While a university guild in Birmingham, England, banned students from wearing sombreros, saying they are racist, two other students were awarded a prize for dressing up as the Twin Towers being destroyed on 9\/11.<\/p>\n

The Telegraph reports<\/a> that The University of Birmingham guild of students banned several items of clothing in a \u201ccrack down\u201d on \u201cdiscriminatory behaviour\u201d. According to the report, many were turned away from the Halloween ball for dressing as Mexicans.
\n\"Poppy<\/p>\n

Above: The costume considered to be deeply racist.<\/h5>\n

\u201cWe were dressed as Mexicans which involved only a sombrero and a poncho and potentially a drawn on tache,\u201d one student said. \u201cI’m not sure why it’s deemed racist nor why the \u2018anti-facism officer’ needs any involvement. Would I be offended if someone came as an Englishman?\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Others in the same city were turned away from nightclubs for being \u201cracist\u201d by dressing as fictional characters from films, and as the Native American from the pop group The Village People.<\/p>\n

The response has been described by students as a \u201cstupid\u201d and \u201clazy\u201d \u201ccatch-all policy\u201d.<\/p>\n

A representative for the student’s guild defended the crack down, stating \u201cAfter speaking with other officers, dressing up as Mexicans would not be okay since it could be seen as imitation of a culture and relate to a stereotype about the race of that particular ethnicity group, even if the intention is by no means harmful at all.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Fury:<\/p>\n

Above: This costume passed the decency test and won these girls first prize<\/h5>\n

Meanwhile, two students in Chester, England, just a few miles north were award a \u00a3150 ($240) best fancy dress prize and commended by orgainsers at a nightclub for dressing up as the smoking twin towers, depicting the 9\/11 attacks.<\/p>\n

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The Telegraph reports<\/a> that the two girls costumes included planes crashing into the New York skyscrapers, burning US flags, and tiny model people jumping to their deaths.<\/p>\n

One of the girls couldn’t resist taking a \u201cselfie\u201d and posting it to Twitter.<\/p>\n

The two have since apologised, stating \u201cThe idea was to depict a modern-day horror that happened in our lifetime and was not intended as a joke.\u201d<\/p>\n

The report states that others at the same party were dressed as the deceased serial pedophile Jimmy Savile. Indeed, the manager of the night club used this as justification for the 9\/11 costumes being acceptable.<\/p>\n

One angry resident complaining to the club on it’s Facebook page stated \u201cWhere can the line be drawn? I might dress up as Hitler next year, or a depiction of a gas chamber with loads of dead Jews coming out of it, or something resembling the bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945, killing over 66,000 people.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cTo find a depiction of people dying and falling from the buildings funny, and to reward it with money, for me is an absolute disgrace and completely disrespectful on every level.\u201d the commenter added.<\/p>\n

The University of Chester and Chester Students’ Union also denounced the students’ actions, stating : \u201cWe utterly condemn the appalling photos.\u201d<\/p>\n

These two incidents highlight the fact that a vast swathe of young people are parading around completely unaware or confused as to why their actions range from morally repugnant to deeply offensive. Yet this is hardly surprising given that an army of thought police and politically correct nazis are enforcing idiotic and sanctimonious notions upon them, including the suggestion that wearing a hat means they are deeply racist.<\/p>\n

Source: Infowars<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dressing as Mexicans and Native Americans is racist while depicting mass killing and destruction will win you first prize Steve Watson Two stories today regarding Halloween fancy dress costumes sum up the state of degradation our society is collapsing into. While a university guild in Birmingham, England, banned students from wearing sombreros, saying they are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":89452,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-89451","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}