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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Randall Simmons
September 27th, 2011
9:06 am
Black people should eat for free. They ancestors was slaves ya know.
Per Steve Black......
September 27th, 2011
9:09 am
This is an excellent idea.
Adios Obama in 2011…. bring on the post-election riots!
Ray
September 27th, 2011
9:25 am
That’s the great thing about free speech; you get to display your ignorance, stupidity, paranoia and racist beliefs all at once. You have the right to look like an idiot, with no help from anyone else!
kimmer
September 27th, 2011
9:25 am
“Berkeley’s student government has “condemned” the use of discrimination whether it is in satire or in seriousness by any student group.”
Hmmm….Wonder why the student government chose not to “condemn” the use of discrimination by the university that prompted this little object lesson?
No matter. The strong reaction to this by the SG really serves to drive the point home beautifully.
DBCOOPER
September 27th, 2011
9:46 am
I wish someone would do a study to figure out how many Free-loaders one hardworking American taxpayer is housing, clothing, feeding and supplying drugs too?
lovelyliz
September 27th, 2011
9:55 am
“If you’re going to compare the Bake Sale to Affirmative Action…the only way it would be comparable is if the flour, oven, and all baking materials were stolen from the people that are required to pay the lowest prices. And if the baked goods from all prior bake sales were made for free by the minorities while white students reaped all the profits…which resulted in unequal opportunities to purchase baked goods in the current sale.”
Thogwummpy
September 27th, 2011
9:57 am
Well, the Left has always trotted around the canard that “everyone is equal”; but they’re the quickest to break that principal to advantage whoever their pitiful little hearts have empathy for, while seeking to hobble anyone they don’t like. All their precious class warfare is based upon it! If they really believed in equal treatment under the law, they’d be against a progressive tax system (for taxing at a different rate, is a breach of the equal treatment concept). So when they get an example of how their policies of selectivism are so satirically put in their face—they spew outrage. Well, notice this. If your ideas are BETTER, then you enjoy challenges for the opportunity to explain your case against the inferior idea. YET, if your idea is subpar—when challenged you may well turn to CENSORSHIP; so that your concept is protected from examination, and exposure to truth. So, from speech codes, to “fairness doctrines”, “hate speech” standards, and so on and so on…..take note that it’s universally liberals that seek to impose censorship.
Laurie
September 27th, 2011
10:02 am
I think we are giving the student group exactly what they want, which is for the American public to think and debate about the effects of affirmative action. Their scheme is very “in your face”, and I applaud the effort to put themselves out there like that.
greg
September 27th, 2011
10:02 am
The price column needs to be reversed in order to be close to being accurate . Whites $.25; Asians $.75; Latinos $1.00 – $1.50 ; Blacks $1.00 – $1.50; Native Americans $2.00
Ms. Atl
September 27th, 2011
10:08 am
Colleges have been considering race in the admissions process for years. The only difference is that it has been disguised and called a “legacy.”