Posted on 09/23/2011 6:47:36 PM PDT by SmithL
A Facebook post announcing plans by a UC Berkeley Republican group to sell baked goods priced according to race, gender and ethnicity - "White/Caucasian" pastries for $2 and "Black/African American pastries for 75 cents, for example - has drawn outrage on campus.
"I'm ashamed to know that I go to the same school with people who would say stuff like this," responded student Skyler Hogan-Van Sickle on Facebook. "I'm really trying to figure out how someone can be this hateful."
The campus Republicans, who expect to go forward with their "Increase Diversity Bake Sale" on Tuesday, say the event is meant to mock an effort by the student government to drum up support for SB 185, a bill to let the University of California and the California State University consider ethnicity in student admissions. It's awaiting approval or veto by Gov. Jerry Brown.
"Our bake sale will be at the same time and location of a phone bank which will be making calls to urge Gov. Brown to sign the bill," posted six students who created the Facebook page. The purpose "is to offer another view to this policy of considering race in university admissions. The pricing structure of the baked goods is meant to be satirical."
But students say the joke is anything but funny. More than 200 students responded to the event, most opposed, and some violently so. One threatened to burn the table and set the cupcakes on fire. At least four student groups sent complaints to campus administrators, and a student-only meeting was set for Friday evening to discuss it.
...The posting describes five price levels for pastries, with the highest for "White/Caucasion," and the lowest for "Native American." A 25-cent discount is offered for women.
"If you don't come, you're a racist," the post declares.
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“Illustrating absurdity by using absurdity seems to be lost on all but the extremely intelligent. “
Well said!
Had to be the wedgie king of his high school gym class.
Illegal aliens get them for free PLUS the $2 cash...
I'm telling my Mommy!
That's what we've got right there. The lesson is lost to the idiots the public schools have turned out.
I am so glad I am old. I don't want to live in the world that these spoiled children think they want.
The idiot doesn't realize that he's just proven their point!
Mrs. Worthington Frothingham
From one of the Narnia books: "There was once a boy named Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it."
The liberals dare not think about the meaning behind the racial preference bake sales, and how if charging different races different amounts is bad, then how much worse is having different admission standards and prices for college educations. They hope their screaming will silence any rational discussion.
In other words, the administration tried find something on the book to forbid the Republican kids, but they came up with nothing except, "Their actions hurt my feeling".
LOL
You have captured how exactly the system works!
And we are supposed to feel magnanimous about it.
This was done before a few years back. Don’t remember the school.
Indeed, how can people be so hateful?
They call it “affirmative action” and act like it’s all just and fair, though.
Apply it to cookies instead of people and all of a sudden it’s hateful.
Georgia Tech.And the minorities had a fit.Except the Koreans.
I can’t believe they somehow missed that fine point. :)
These republicans are just plain mean spirited. Everyone knows that only democrats are allowed to judge and classify people by race.
This shiite will never change in this country. Racialism and racialism until you puke!
They should sell muffins to the DOJ. They’ll pay $16 a muffin.
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