Halloween at CEU

Human Rights Initiative from my university  is organizing a Halloween party to raise funds. Sounds great! But when you read their announcement more carefully...something weird pops up.

Costume competition categories will include:

- most original group/couple…

- best handmade…

- funniest…

- scariest…

- and least politically correct.

What?!?! Maybe they should add more explicit categories to that last category. For example, the most racist, the most homophobic, the most transphobic and so on. Because Halloween is such a great opportunity to express ourselves and be bigots, right? 

The Human RightS Initiative (HRSI) is a social engagement, capacity building, and awareness raising human rights organization based at Central European University (CEU) in Budapest, Hungary.We regularly organize a wide range of events for both the CEU as well as the local community, such as workshops, awareness raising campaigns, public lectures, student country presentations, and film screenings.

UPDATE: The announcement was not removed, but one of the organizers assured everyone that: "when thinking of non-PC I was imagining people dressing up like Soros or, taking this opportunity to challenge stereotypes, but staying within the borders of non-offensiveness (otherwise, they would definitely not be let in the venue) and such, within the CEU framework.

I am sending a reminder of this party tomorrow, and I will write, in brackets, something along the lines of "no discriminatory costume will be tolerated." ... I have given you my "side" of the story and again, I take full responsibility for creating this "non-PC" category."

  Here are some of the results:

nothing offensive, obviously....