College Students Call Mad-Scientist-Themed Party Offensive For This INSANE (Pun Intended) Reason

The Perpetual Victimhood Brigade marches on! And there CLEARLY is nothing that they can’t twist around to be offensive.

According to this, Harvey Mudd College in southern California had an event planned called “Mudd Goes Madd” – a campus party with a mad-scientist theme. The theme centered around the college’s reputation for being a science-focused school, but they had invited students from the four other Claremont College institutions to participate (Claremont is a group of private schools in the area). One of those other schools, Pomona College, got all snippy about it because the “mad scientist” theme would be offensive to students with mental health issues.

Mad scientists are offensive now. For real.

Here is what the Associated Students of Pomona College posted in response to their invite to the party –

“We are disappointed at your choice of the name for the event, as well as your rationale for allowing the name ‘Mudd Goes Madd.’ Your disregard of the concerns of the mental health community and their allies trivializes issues that we deem extremely important to our community. Further, the exclusion of the mental health community in the discussion of allowing the event name is inappropriate.”

It’s funny that the Pomona students claimed that Harvey Mudd students didn’t consult the all-important “mental health community” in planning this event, because many students with mental health issues (and, thus, who would be included in the aforementioned “mental health community”) said they didn’t have a problem with the event and basically told Pomona College to get the crap over it already. Here are some of those responses –

“[Autism Spectrum Disorder] is a very serious issue, but treating me like I’m five years old and trying to protect me from every possible trigger doesn’t prepare me for the real world,”  one student stated on Facebook.

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Another student wrote the decision was “patronizing” and a third added “I have anxiety and my closest friends have depression. I think the name is clever and fun,” according to screenshots obtained by The College Fix.

Another student told the Claremont Independent, which first reported the story, that: “I am actually bipolar and I am offended that people infantilize the whole issue of mental illness by suggesting we should be protected from anything that could damage our ‘fragile’ psyches.”

You mean that college students with ACTUAL mental health issues don’t like to be treated like fragile little snowflakes?? There IS a group that is sick of being patronized and demeaned by the Cult of Social Justice who presumes they know what’s best for them? COLOR ME SHOCKED!

The good news is that the Harvey Mudd students went ahead with the party – original name and everything – because they realized how stupid it was to let the PC Police dictate what kind of fun you’re allowed to have. One student went so far as to declare this a victory against political correctness –

“This was definitely a win against overzealous PC culture,” student Steven Glick said in an email to The College Fix. “Students at the Claremont Colleges are tired of having their freedoms compromised in order to avoid upsetting certain groups of students, and the students that the PC police think they are helping are fed up with being told that they are too weak to hear certain words. We’re in college-people here want to be treated like adults, not like kindergarteners.”

Sad thing is, this should be common sense. It’s a freaking PARTY THEME. If they’re going to be offended by mad scientists, then they better quit reading stuff like Frankenstein or Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. And they certainly can’t watch Back to the Future anymore (to borrow a phrase, you’ll have to pry Back to the Future from my cold, dead fingers).