Many Brits still bristle at the importation of Halloween. It’s easy to see why. It is an American holiday that involves grown adults dressing up and children begging for food from strangers. But there is one upside to it that we can all enjoy: woke campus officials losing their minds over ‘offensive’ costumes.
It’s hilarious, and it is now an annual feature of Halloween – as traditional as carving the pumpkin or egging the neighbourhood sex offender’s house.
Today we learn in the Times that officials at Sheffield University banned students from wearing sombreros this Halloween, because doing so is ‘culturally insensitive’. Posters have been put up around campus and, according to reports, security staff will ‘challenge any culturally insensitive costumes’ they come across.
This ridiculous story has a rich, transatlantic tradition.
A few years back, Wesleyan University’s office of student affairs put out a poster
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