UC Berkeley College Republicans (newsflash: they have those!) want to
make a serious point about how affirmative action is racist against
white males, which they will accomplish by
holding a bake sale
that is racist against everyone else. Brilliant populism! The backdrop
for this is a law proposed by California governor Jerry Brown that would
allow state colleges to consider race and gender in applications, which
in the reduced terms of a harebrained GOP student bake sale
demonstration of “why this is bad” means that white male snack fiends
have to pay $2 per cupcake, and everybody else pays a few quarters less
for a baked good according to a randomly assigned scale of “this is how
much less than a white guy you are worth.” Who can refute that kind of
mathematical argument?
Asian-Americans? $1.50. Latinos? $1.00. Black people, oh, they are
very cheap compared to white guys, they only pay $0.75. Ladies are worth
25 cents less than men across the board. Moral of the story: find the
black ladies on campus, hippies! They will buy you cheap snacks.
From
CNN:
“We agree that the event is inherently racist, but that
is the point,” [Berkeley College Republican] 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.”
Yes, eight black women are worth one white guy, is what they are
trying to say, which is racist against white guys. UNASSAILABLE LOGIC.
