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.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
If I wear some cork over my face do I get a discount?
I am really not racist I just want cheap muffins.
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.Yeah, that's using the power of the media to get your point across. /s
“Skyler Hogan-Van Sickle”
LOL! Is that the dude’s real name? Sounds like he has a trust fund.
It doesn’t take much to fire up some of these people - this isn’t the first time a bakesale has been proposed ... I hope the Young Republicans can have the sale!
Heh heh... but I think Asians should be charged $5. They really have too many advantages (i.e., parents who will make their lives a living hell if they don’t succeed.)
I doubt anybody would actually buy the muffins, but the admin will of course chicken out in the face of those threatening to throw violent tantrums.
That’s the first thing I thought as well.
Poor kid never had a chance at being a real man...
I knew a woman who named her son, Skylar.....after he was around 10 she left her husband for another woman.....butt ugly selfish people who hated the patriarchy. Worked with them for years.
It is not the kid’s fault...it is the sick twisted, ignorant, warped Marxist thinking of the parents who were brainwashed by public schools. The kids are doomed from the start. Sad.
Almost as good as Chatsworth T. Osborne, Junior...
“Skyler Hogan-Van Sickle”
Both of his moms are very upset.
Kid doubtlessly learned “if you want your way, act like a drama queen.”
I suspect Irony was left out of group think classes in the modern universitys.
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LOL! Poor tool doesn't even get it.
Better yet would be to add that once you purchase said cupcake, you don’t actually get it, it will be given to someone else and you have no say over who gets it.
“Skyler Hogan-Van Sickle”
I certainly hope his pastries were priced by the name. Skyler is almost as bad a name as Steny!
>A 25-cent discount is offered for women. <
I;m offended!! As a dude, why do women get 25 cents??
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