Thursday, March 28, AD 2024 2:51pm

Of Camels, Humps and Chumps

Camel Crossing

One of my more cherished photos is of my three kids when they were little riding a camel.  The kids had a great time and the camel was gentle, obviously well cared for and very patient with the kids.  My bride and I had taught them about camels and they loved being able to ride on one.  It was therefore with some interest that I glanced at the latest example of moronic political correctness on campus:

Students at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota have cancelled an event to celebrate the end of the year after complaints that bringing a camel on campus could offend those of Middle Eastern cultures.

The “Hump Day” event, put on by the Residence Hall Association (RHA), was supposed to be “a petting zoo type of atmosphere” in which students could hang out and take photos with a live camel. According to Aaron Macke, the group’s advisor, the camel is owned by a local vendor and trained for special events.

But the event was subsequently cancelled after students took to Facebook to proclaim their concerns. The students said they were concerned about the money spent on bringing the camel to campus—around $500—and the implication that it would be racially insensitive to Middle Eastern cultures.

The Facebook group called “Protest Hump DAAAAAAY!” had more than 100 RSVP’d attendees before it was deleted on Wednesday.

“RHA’s goal in programming is to bring residents together in a fun and safe environment where all people can enjoy themselves,” RHA president Lindsay Goodwin said in a statement on RHA’s Facebook page. “It appears however, this program is dividing people and would make for an uncomfortable and possibly unsafe environment for everyone attending or providing the program. As a result, RHA has decided to cancel the event.”

Go here to read the rest.  Now camels are a sign of racial insensitivity?  It appears that some students and faculty on campus are not there for the purpose of education but rather to be perpetually offended in order to make some political point, no matter how absurd.  The cost of attending Saint Thomas is around 42K a year, and when news of this camel-unable-to-pass-through-the-eye-of-the-needle-of -political-correctness broke, I assume some parents were wondering if they were chumps to take on such a financial burden when apparently the administration of the university can be so easily buffaloed, or rather cameloed, by fanatical ignorant idiots who really need to, in the immortal words of William Shatner, get a life.

 

 

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Jason
Saturday, May 17, AD 2014 5:53am

It is perhaps not without a delicious sense of irony that these students are unintentionally engaging in racial insensitivity of their own by 1. overlooking the fact that camels are not native only to Middle Eastern regions 2. neglecting to be concerned that the peoples of central Asia (for example) might likewise be offended, and/or implying that those of the Middle East are more likely to be offended.

Stephen E Dalton
Stephen E Dalton
Saturday, May 17, AD 2014 8:52am

“Camels, humps, and chumps.” It sounds like a title for a Three Stooges comedy! And since this whole thing is a farce anyway, this post gives these idiots a well deserved poke in the eye! Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk!

Michael Paterson-Seymour
Michael Paterson-Seymour
Saturday, May 17, AD 2014 10:07am

Jason

The world’s largest camel herd is in Australia!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22522695

Karl
Karl
Saturday, May 17, AD 2014 11:15am

It is ok to have a Black Mass “celebration” that mocks Jesus Christ’s Last Supper but you cannot celebrate “Hump Day” with a camel!

This country is finished. Our young people are completely lost and outright intentional bigots.

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