At Dartmouth, you'd better be sensitive to every layer of demographic implication

Because if you're not, someone from an officially designated aggrieved group will raise hell:

The Ivy League school’s Greek community decided to cancel an upcoming fiesta-themed, charity fundraiser after a student complained that the event was culturally and racially offensive.

“As a Mexican-born, United States-raised, first-generation woman of color, it was sadly unsurprising that a culturally-themed party was seen as a casual venture for such a privileged institution such as Dartmouth,” wrote Daniela Hernandez, a student at the “privileged institution.”

Ms. Hernandez got hotter than a red chili pepper after the Alpha Phi sorority and the Phi Delta fraternity decided to host a “Phiesta” to raise money for cardiac care. Get it? “Phiesta.” Clever, right? Our good friends at the website Campus Reformalerted me to the story.

The Greeks were prepared to throw one heck of a party – complete with virgin Pina Coladas, strawberry daiquiris, chips and salsa, homemade guacamole and burritos.

I’m not sure if it was the guacamole or the burritos that sent Ms. Hernandez into a dither –but she fired off a letter to all sorts of Dartmouth bigwigs – including the person in charge of the “Office of Pluralism and Leadership” (that’s the office in charge of inclusion and diversity).

“There are various problematic structures and ideologies regarding a Cinco de Mayo-inspired event and I am sure that we, as a Dartmouth community, could learn from the extensive literature written about the Americanization of Cinco de Mayo and its construction as a drinking holiday in the United States, cultural appropriate and the inappropriate usage of cultural clothing, and the exploitation of groups of people and cultures for the sake of business opportunities,” she wrote in an email that appeared in the student newspaper.

And, yes, the fraternities and sororities caved.  And publicly puked all over themselves with great genuflection:

“We take these concerns very seriously,” student Courtney Wong told The Dartmouth. “And we want to make sure that we respect the diversity of the broader community.”
And then there’s this from Greek Taylor Cathcart: “We felt that the possibility of offending even one member of the Dartmouth community was not worth the potential benefits of having the fundraiser.”
Such hurt. Such anguish over beans and cheese wrapped in a flour tortilla.
Alysson Satterlund, the director of the Office of Pluralism and Leadership, explained the college’s position.
“Events that mock and marginalize others certainly do not reflect our Principle of Community and do not reflect values of inclusion, respect and a care for others,” she told the newspaper.

Sweet Lord, lady. They wanted to serve chips and salsa – not perform a Mexican hat dance. 

Another demonstration of the truism that the push for "diversity" is really about circumscribing freedom ever more tightly.