Berkeley Republicans get it Wrong

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It's meant to be racist, and it's meant to be discriminatory.

And the controversial "Increase Diversity Bake Sale" hosted by the Berkeley College Republicans is still on, the club's president said, despite "grossly misguided comments" and threats aimed toward supporters of the University of California Berkeley student group.

During the sale, scheduled for Tuesday, baked goods will be sold to white men for $2, Asian men for $1.50, Latino men for $1, black men for $0.75 and Native American men for $0.25. All women will get $0.25 off those prices.
The bake sale is meant to draw attention to pending legislation that would allow California universities to consider race, gender, ethnicity and national origin during the admissions process.

"We agree that the event is inherently racist, but that is the point," BCR President Shawn Lewis wrote in response to upheaval over the bake sale. "It is no more racist than giving an individual an advantage in college admissions based solely on their race (or) gender

http://www.cnn.com/2011/09/26/us/california-racial-bake-sale/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

While the society is overwhelmingly prejudiced against men, when it comes to college admissions it goes the other way, as universities try to balance out the male/female mix even though males are fairing far less well than the females in the education system. As I recall the mix currently is something like 53%F/47%M , but if admissions were to go back to being on merit it would be about 64%F/36%M. The current prejudice does not help men much or at all however, because a lot of those men who are admitted to the university for the purposes of atmospherics end up washing out, presumably with a debt load that they are unprepared to handle, so it resembles predatory lending in a way......taking advantage of men by giving them the college experience that they want but that they should not have based upon merit and which allowing them to have hurts them in the end.

BTW- I thought Berkeley students where supposed to be the cream of the crop...when did they get to be so dumb?

EDIT: but that we see threats of violence from Berkeley students towards those who say unpopular things is just as we would expect from rabid politically correct hooligans, of which Berkeley is well known for.

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@hawkeye10,

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During the sale, scheduled for Tuesday, baked goods will be sold to white men for $2, Asian men for $1.50, Latino men for $1, black men for $0.75 and Native American men for $0.25. All women will get $0.25 off those prices.

That's actually about on par with the various pay scales for each. Most White men get paid more than Asian, Latino, Black and Native American men, and all of them get paid more than most women.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilly_Ledbetter

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Been there, done that. Even entitled, snotty-nosed undergrad Republicans have no new ideas.

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@joefromchicago,

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Been there, done that. Even entitled, snotty-nosed undergrad Republicans have no new ideas.

So a "journalist" employed by CNN paints this as a Berkeley event when really it is a movement in America that has been going on for six months??!! SHOCKING *sarcasm*

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Holly Yan, hired as a "backpack journalist" in May 2009 by Dallas-based CW33, is moving on to CNN. Her last day at the Tribune-owned station was Friday.

Yan joined CW33 after being laid off by The Dallas Morning News, where she spent five years as a reporter. At CNN, she'll primarily be doing web site work, with occasional on-air appearances.

http://www.unclebarky.com/dfw_files/33533aa781fda3b2df2f76805d30e28f-1653.html

I'd say this chick should stick to writing code, because she must have skipped most of her J School classes judging by her piss poor quality journalism product.

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It's always amusing to me to see the stereotypes that are thrown around about Berkeley by people who have no idea what it's like here.

Cycloptichorn

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@Cycloptichorn,

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It's always amusing to me to see the stereotypes that are thrown around about Berkeley by people who have no idea what it's like here.

Cycloptichorn

You all are living up to the stereotype, the conservatives have been physically threatened, the student government has shown that they have no sense of humor and that they dont want any unsavory activities conducted by others

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Berkeley's student government, the Associated Students of the University of California, held an emergency Senate meeting late Sunday to discuss the issue and passed a resolution that, in part, "condemns the use of discrimination whether it is in satire or in seriousness by any student group."

http://www.cnn.com/2011/09/26/us/california-racial-bake-sale/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

We have seen this from Berkeley often before, this claim that offensive humor is not allowed, because as we know they are stick up their ass liberals. Now I expect to see them create a scene so as to give the campus authorities cover to shut down this political event under the well tread American excuse
for removing the freedom from the citizens...."SAFETY".

I see that the CNN piece has now been rewritten to reflect that this is a nationwide movement.

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@hawkeye10,

Man, you really don't pay attention, do you? Joe's linked thread was not six months ago, it was eight years ago. What a maroon.

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@hawkeye10,

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You all are living up to the stereotype, the conservatives have been physically threatened, the student government has shown that they have no sense of humor and that they dont want any unsavory activities conducted by others

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We have seen this from Berkeley often before, this claim that offensive humor is not allowed, because as we know they are stick up their ass liberals.

These two statements make it very obvious that you don't know much about Berkeley and the history of activism and protests there.

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@Butrflynet,

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These two statements make it very obvious that you don't know much about Berkeley and the history of activism and protests there

People who go to Berkeley looking for humor are like those who go to Paris looking for the best whorehouses in Europe....IE, they are way behind the times and confuse reputation with current reality....

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@hawkeye10,

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These two statements make it very obvious that you don't know much about Berkeley and the history of activism and protests there
People who go to Berkeley looking for humor are like those who go to Paris looking for the best whorehouses in Europe....IE, they are way behind the times and confuse reputation with current reality....

I'll simply repeat again: you don't know the first ******* thing about Berkeley, the school itself or the town, Hawk. So why pretend you do?

Cycloptichorn

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@Setanta,

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Man, you really don't pay attention, do you? Joe's linked thread was not six months ago, it was eight years ago. What a maroon.

College Republicans must have a book entitled something like "59 Time-Tested Ways to Get Liberals All Riled Up." It's certainly an oldie-but-goody. Granted, stunts like this make the YRs look like a bunch of dicks as much as they make the liberals look like a bunch of tie-dyed crybabies, but I suppose the Buckley Bunch is used to that by now.

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@joefromchicago,

In my college days in the 60s, we had the SDS on the one hand and the YAF on the other. Things don't seem to have changed much.

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(CNN) -- A provocative bake sale designed to satirize affirmative action resulted in no fisticuffs Tuesday, but it did prompt a sellout of 300 cupcakes and some heated debate at the University of California at Berkeley, the bake sale organizer said.
"The biggest thing is that no violence broke out. There was no physical situation, which is really great," Berkeley College Republicans President Shawn Lewis said Tuesday afternoon, as the bake sale was nearing an end.
"We sold out of cupcakes, and I think we have some (of the 200) cookies left," Lewis told CNN.
"Beside from selling cupcakes, there was a lot of conversations between people," Lewis said. "There were some aggressive people who came up with angry things to say, but there was no violence."
In light of recent threats made against supporters of the group, college Republicans from several other California universities showed up by the carloads and volunteered to help staff the event, held on a campus plaza, Lewis said.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/09/27/us/california-racial-bake-sale/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

It is good to see that the University had the good sense to let freedom ring.....

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