Cal chancellor calls tree-sit protest 'racism'

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 10/6/8 | Phillip Matier, Andrew Ross

[tcrlaf]

Isn’t that cute?
A lib finds itself the victim of it’s own Political Correctness.

[junta]

White liberal implosion.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

"It's cuckoo," the tree-sitters' lawyer Dennis Cunningham said of the chancellor's remarks. "You don't spend $150 million in funny money to benefit 350 athletes who are already pampered and have scholarships...

Racist.

[EyeGuy]

I mowed my lawn this morning.

Clearly a racist act.

[Boiling Pots]

Other clashes are inevitable....

Liberals will be put in quite a conundrum when they figure out the plans the Shariah Law demanding Muslims have for homosexuals.

[popdonnelly]

Say what? What planet do these university idiots live on? Universities spend millions on these poor, underserved student athletes. What’s the limit? None, I guess.

I thought the protest was an act of treeism.

[steve-b]

Which function key on his computer does Birgenau have the string “racism against our underrepresented “ mapped to?

[KarlInOhio]

We have reached LIBCON level 2. The "Racist" bombs have been removed from their underground bunkers to be loaded on the bombers and the university president has been given the "football" with the launch codes.

[Reagan79]

I love it when the left is at war with themselves.

[Mark319]

Oh, this is great.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

No link but one nut here in Huntsville stopped a
crew cleaning up the trees during the power outage
by standing under tree limbs about to be cut.

The crew had to stop, they called the police.
The police warned the nut and he left.
He returned after the police left screaming
“you are hurting the trees”.

The police came back and arrested him this time.
This time he did not return but A judge gave him
a $500 cash bond.

[Jonah Hex]

I thought the protest was an act of treeism.

Nice pun, you sap. (sly wink)

[KarlInOhio]

Which function key on his computer does Birgenau have the string “racism against our underrepresented “ mapped to?

He probably uses it so much that he has it mapped to the big space bar and has to hit Alt-0032 to get a space.

[mlocher]

I think it is time for a forest fire. Roast liberal anyone?

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

Couldn’t we call the stock market meltdown “racism” and solve the whole world financial problem right now, today?

[Polybius]

Berkeley's tree-sitters may have thought their nearly two-year protest was an act of civil disobedience, but to UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau it was actually "racism against our underrepresented minority student athletes."

MEET

[SunkenCiv]

Birgeneau's response was to the point. "I am surprised by the fact that you advocate for criminal trespassers who use their own feces and urine to harass our staff while, at the same time, ignoring the racism against our underrepresented minority student athletes that underlies much of the opposition to our proposed student high-performance athletic center," Birgeneau wrote... spokeswoman Marie Felde said her boss' impression that racism was at play was based on e-mails he had received from the tree-sitter supporters that said, "in effect, that the facility ... was being built for students who did not belong at UC Berkeley."

"It's cuckoo," the tree-sitters' lawyer Dennis Cunningham said of the chancellor's remarks. "You don't spend $150 million in funny money to benefit 350 athletes who are already pampered and have scholarships.

A group that spends two years sitting in trees should not call someone else cuckoo.

[Future Snake Eater]

Ahhhh, and here’s the answer to my question: how does a liberal freak university justify taking out some of the liberal freaks they helped generate? By throwing out another liberal freak cause to trump the first one. Very interesting.

So in case anyone was wondering, we now know: racism > environmentalism

[dbacks]

Hmmm, most blacks don’t maintain yards, therefore your act is RACIST.