February 18, 2003
FROM THE "ALL HUMOR IS CONSERVATIVE" FILES:
Democrats riled by race-, gender-biased bake sale (Nicolas Taborek, 2/17/03, DAILY BRUIN)An affirmative action bake sale organized by the Bruin Republicans last week has provoked impassioned responses from a top California Democrat and
political student groups on campus.The sale, held on Bruin Walk on Feb. 3, offered cookies at different prices depending on the customer's race and gender. Black, Latina and American Indian females were charged 25 cents for cookies that cost males of minority descent 50 cents. White females were charged $1, and white males and all Asian Americans were charged $2.
Students selling the cookies were assigned name tags portraying them as "Uncle Tom," "The White Oppressor" and "Self-Hating Hispanic Race Traitor."
Somebody's been reading Letters to a Young Conservative . That's exactly the kind of thing that Mr. D'Souza recommends--using humor to get your point across and inflame opinion--though this may well be funnier than anything the Dartmouth Review guys ever did. Posted by Orrin Judd at February 18, 2003 7:21 PM
Romenesko links to a similar stunt at U. of Michigan, although there Asians were included in the cutprice cookies. And, more to the point, the prices were $1 for whites, 80 cents for coloreds.
It occurred to me, when I read last week that MIT, Stanford and some big corporations whose products I will never buy again if I can remember their names had filed amicus briefs in favor of racism, that companies taking that sort of stand had better hope those schools can turn out lots of superbly talented colored engineeers and scientists, because they'll never recruit a top white one again.