Discrimination bake sale half-baked?
CNN doesn’t cover a lot of bake sales, but one in California is getting plenty of media attention.
Half-baked? You decide. (from CNN)
A Republican student group at the University of California at Berkeley (that felt weird to type) is selling cookies and brownies, but the price of the baked goods is based on gender and race.
White men pay the most. Native American women eat free. The price list is in the photo.
The stunt is meant to be racist, discriminatory and get attention, organizers say.
Mission accomplished.
The Republican group is upset that the university, like most government agencies, uses gender and race to determine who gets admitted or hired, reports CNN.
Berkeley’s student government has “condemned” the “use of discrimination whether it is in satire or in seriousness by any student group.”
Proceeds from the sale will go to charity.
The unanswered question? Are those brownies any good? And are they packing the mystery ingredient beloved by 1960s Berkeley protesters?
Probably not. Conservative hash brownies would be news.
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Mark Berryman
September 26th, 2011
2:04 pm
I think this is a perfect example of our First Amendment right to free speech.
ND
September 26th, 2011
2:49 pm
If they really wanted to be accurate, they would have robbed the Native Americans for everything they had to pay for the ingredients and forced every black person who walked up to the bake sale to bake the brownies for them. And if they caught anybody who looked like a Latino trying to buy anything they would throw them out.
Kris
September 26th, 2011
2:52 pm
Gee, I feel foolish, I thought it was based on income disparity between the groups. Silly me. I guess that’s why I’m not a Republican – I realize those groups make less therefore can pay less and that education for those groups is a significant part of closing the income gap. But why would I expect a college student to realize that.
Kris
September 26th, 2011
2:54 pm
It should be noted it’s a white male behind this stunt. I wonder if he’s getting the more than 50% in-state resident discount.
Milan Moravec
September 26th, 2011
4:25 pm
Chancellor Birgeneau of University of California Berkeley discriminates in admissions against Instate Californians. University of California Berkeley Chancellor Robert J Birgeneau ($500,000 salary), displaces qualified for public university education at Cal. Californians with $50,600 FOREIGN students.
Ranked # 70 by Forbes, the University of California Berkeley is not increasing enrollment. $50,600 FOREIGN students are accepted by Birgeneau at the expense of qualified instate students.
Your opinions make a difference; email UC Board of Regents marsha.kelman@ucop.edu
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Binaqhua
September 26th, 2011
5:37 pm
How dare those Republicans be so politically incorrect! They need to just keep quiet and continue to subsidize college tuition (and just about everything else) for the ‘people of color’.
Milan Moravec
September 26th, 2011
7:52 pm
Chancellor Birgeneau of University of California accepts applicants with a foreign passport over instate Californians. University of California Berkeley Chancellor Robert J Birgeneau ($500,000 salary), displaces qualified for public university education at Cal. Californians with $50,600 FOREIGN students.
Ranked # 70 by Forbes, the University of California Berkeley is not increasing enrollment. $50,600 FOREIGN students are accepted by Birgeneau at the expense of qualified instate students.
Your opinions make a difference; email UC Board of Regents marsha.kelman@ucop.edu
Captain Scapula
September 27th, 2011
7:06 am
Hey Kris, isn’t this what you meant, comrade? “From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.”
Willie Coyote
September 27th, 2011
7:07 am
Wake up people. The country is crumbling.
findog
September 27th, 2011
7:20 am
unsaid is that the white men get a $2.15 refund at the end of the day