Yup, happened here at the USI campus.
It was shut down, cold.
Last year, Southern Methodist University ended an "affirmative action bake sale" organized by the Young Conservatives of Texas after just 45 minutes."
HA!!
Sounds like SMU was trying to practice "tolerance" until administration could stand it no longer; if, it lasted a whole 45 minutes.
No kidding.
USI's bake sale was shut down before they even got started.
What was really weird was how the area's mediots -- TV *&* radio -- were there "on the scene" to cover the event before anything ever happened.
They sure were, & their mo for covering this was something to see too, *classic* and priceless.
Repeated on camera interviews featuring downtrodden & oppressed minority students -- future civil rights heros -- panning now & then to a folding table full of cookies.
Yessiree Bob, then there were riveting, gutwrenching close-ups of the damning price list printed out on poster board!
I tell ya it was *not* for the faint of heart & that's for damned sure.
The best part though, is all the while the camera's capturing images of this "Montgomery-like" event, the voice-overs from the future civil rights leaders explain what & why one's looking at a table full of cookies.
The racist-oppressors responsible for this bold, "in yo' face" heresy, of course, were limited to <5 sec to tell the camera, "We're holding a bake sale."
Yup sure was weird alright, like helplessly watching person or persons being gang raped.
"A school official was quoted in the Dallas Morning News as saying it created 'a hostile environment.'"
HA!
Translation: "Y'all are gonna get'cher heads smashed in by a mob of student-like Rodney Kings if y'all don't cut the crap in the name of 'justice,' y'hear?"
Naturally the college repubs complied, law abiders as they are; but, they did chatter just as a colony of frightened chipmunks will do -- from the opening of their holes -- when a cat shows up.
Even if no one was litening.
"Here again is evidence of the way the political left is just as dangerous to freedom of expression as is the right. Virtuecrats may take aim at indecency and flag burning, but the diversitistas of the world have no tolerance for those who would question why white and Asian students are held to higher standards in college admission. They conflate speech with action, believing that vocal opposition to affirmative action is the same as a discriminatory act."
Yup, spot-on; but, I so do like those *new* words. {g}
"They don't get the Constitution at all."
Gee, ya think?
All depends whose constitution we be talkin' about, I suppose.
Say FGS, aside from all the insanity right from the pages of an Orwell novel, don'tcha find it *kind* of odd to be reading this in a rag the likes of the St.Petersburg Times?
No, really.
I'm *really* trying to again show [some more of] my optimistic & humorous side! :o)
Just one question, bub.
...think The Associated Press will pick it up? ;^)
...think The Associated Press will pick it up?
I'm betting they'll take a pass. I suspect they've already flogged this horse......several times. On second thought, it never stopped 'em before. The headline could be problematic:
White Students Discriminate Against, uh, White/Minority Students By Charging Them More/Less for Cookies)???FGS