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<blockquote data-quote="Lue C Fur" data-source="post: 883071" data-attributes="member: 25159"><p><span style="color: #0000cd">Gotta love John Stossel.</span></p><p><span style="color: #0000cd"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong>Why I Approve of Berkeley's 'Racist' Bake Sale</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-size: 9px">Today, some Berkeley students plan to hold a<span style="color: #183a52"> racist bake sale</span>.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-size: 9px">Some College Republicans want to satirize California’s proposed <span style="color: #183a52">affirmative action</span> law, which would direct California public universities to consider race, gender, ethnicity, and national/geographic origin when admitting students. They need a new law? I assume the schools do that anyway.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-size: 9px">Affirmative action may be a good thing—a way to compensate for past discrimination. While that may have been useful when I attended college, I think it’s no longer helpful today. <strong><em>Affirmative action is now part of the minority special privilege machine, a component of which is perpetual victimhood. </em></strong><span style="color: #0000CD">Hallelujah John!!!</span></span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-size: 9px">Useful or not, affirmative action it is a form of racism, and the bake sale helps make that clear. But I don’t understand the Berkeley students’ price list. Asians, not Whites, should be at the top , since studies show that often, Asian students need significantly higher SAT scores to be admitted.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-size: 9px">I once held <span style="color: #183a52">a similar sale</span>:</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-size: 9px">I stood in midtown Manhattan shouting, “Cupcakes for sale.” My price list read:</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-size: 9px">Asians -- $1.50</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-size: 9px">Whites -- $1.00</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-size: 9px">Blacks/Latinos -- 50 cents</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-size: 9px">People stared. One yelled, “What is funny to you about people who are less privileged?” A <span style="color: #183a52">black woman said, angrily</span>, “It’s very offensive, very demeaning!” One black man accused me of poisoning the cupcakes.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-size: 9px">I understand why people got angry. But my racist sale led to some interesting discussions. One young woman began by criticizing me, “It’s absolutely wrong.”</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-size: 9px">But after I raised the parallel with college admissions, <span style="color: #183a52">she said:</span> “No race of people is worth more than another. Or less.”</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-size: 9px">But do you believe in affirmative action in colleges? I asked.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-size: 9px">“I used to,” she replied.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-size: 9px">Those are the kind discussions students should have. Berkeley administrators were not happy when they learned of the College Republicans plan, but I’m glad that they will allow today’s bake sale. <span style="color: #183a52">At Bucknell University</span>, the administration shut a bake sale down. A university is supposed to be a place for open discussion. Satirizing affirmative action shouldn’t be off-limits.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
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